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Meta has a huge global teenage user base with Instagram and WhatsApp. TikTok complements them rather than replacing. All three are growing. I don’t know how th
by pavlov 4y ago
Meta has a huge global teenage user base with Instagram and WhatsApp. TikTok complements them rather than replacing. All three are growing.
I don’t know how they’re going to translate that reach to VR profits either, but focusing on Facebook-using retirees misses the big picture of Meta’s growth.
- gtirloni 4y agoI don't see teenagers using Instagram much or at all where I live.
- pavlov 4y agoThere’s something about social media that makes people confidently extrapolate their local observations to global scale. Meta’s apps have 3.7 billion active monthly users. That’s half the population of the world! It’s impossible to guess their behavioral trends based only on what you and I see around us. Even Facebook is growing despite nearly a decade of HN users declaring it’s only used by retirees and will soon die out.
- gtirloni 4y agoNot saying it's not growing or very big already. Just that the next wave of users don't seem to be coming from teenagers.
- nativespecies 4y agoMeta's DAU for teens/young adults has been in decline for a decade. It's only going to get worse: https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/new-report-highlights-the-decline-of-facebook-and-ig-as-tiktok-becomes-the/631694/ https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/new-report-highlights-...
- ulfw 4y agoYou're very wrong. It's hard to generalize these things but if anything (roughly speaking) teens are on tiktok as are 20+ yr olds, 30-40 are on instagram and 40+ are nowadays on Facebook.