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From Facebook's Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2022 Results: DAUs were 2.00 billion on average for December 2022, an increase of 4% year-over-year. So I think p
by threeseed 3y ago
From Facebook's Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2022 Results:
DAUs were 2.00 billion on average for December 2022, an increase of 4% year-over-year.
So I think public networks still seem far from dead.
- elcomet 3y agoFacebook is a private network.
- johnchristopher 3y agoFor a pedantic definition of private.
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 3y agoThe precise definition being that it's private because you need to create an account so they can more accurately violate your privacy.
- jasode 3y ago>Facebook is a private network. You're getting sidetracked by the word "private" instead of looking at the contextual meaning of the conversation people are having: When grandparent poster (asim) wrote: >"and now people need to go back to something more real and private." asim meant "private"=="less-visible-more-intimate-group". You're talking about "private"=="walled-garden". The threeseed's reply of "So I think public networks still seem far from dead" is responding to asim's usage of "private" and not yours.
- asim 3y agoyes thanks for clarifying that. I really do mean, private as in, no one outside of your circles of real connections can see it and it's entirely invite only. Who do I invite into my home and personal conversations? Well not the people on facebook or twitter I'll tell you that much.
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 3y agoThough if you own an Echo, Amazon is always invited.
- elcomet 3y agoPublic / private and walled garden are not what you are saying. I'm saying only your friends on Facebook will see your posts, so it is private, unlike twitter where the whole world will see them. And you can create groups if you want to have even more private discussions. Twitter, LinkedIn are walled gardens, but public ones. Facebook is a private walled garden.
- johannes1234321 3y agoYes, but "friend" has quite a wide meaning on Facebook. Compare it to a WhatsApp group: there one defines exactly the people who should see a given message. "Friends" becomes mixed between "true" friends, neighbors, colleagues, ... people you once we're closer with but passed ways to some degree, ... after a while it's semi-public at least unless you have a strict (un-)friending policy. For average users the visibility is also hard to understand.
- berkes 3y agoFacebook has a private network; WhatsApp. WhatsApp is omnipresent in many geographies - but not so much in the US, hence it's often overlooked.
- silisili 3y agoYou can't count DAU as an accurate measurement when you're subsidizing half the number with carrier deals. For hundreds of millions in other countries, FB is the internet because it's cheaper than...the internet.
- Kye 3y agoIt's also often the only place to find local information even if you do have affordable internet. Especially in smaller counties and towns. Someone might show up in the count, but it doesn't mean a strong attachment.
- MichaelZuo 3y agoYes, the public internet is very close to nil outside the big countries, it's very noticeable nowadays doing verbatim searches on google for the last X time period, and setting the location to some random country.