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That shows quarterly revenue not user activity in the US? In my orbit there is nearly 0 Facebook usage outside of a few boomers but instagram seems very popular

by rgbrgb 2y ago

That shows quarterly revenue not user activity in the US? In my orbit there is nearly 0 Facebook usage outside of a few boomers but instagram seems very popular.

scarface_74 2y ago
So you’re going to ignore publicly available information based on your anecdote?
bdangubic 2y ago
"In my orbit" there 100% of the people play racquetball which means there are roughly 350 million players in the USA - hence it is the most popular sport on the planet and owner of my local team is richer than all NFL owners combined /s :) Also see https://www.statista.com/statistics/408971/number-of-us-facebook-users/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/408971/number-of-us-face... just for kicks :)
- rgbrgb 2y ago
  ok well at least that's the number that was being discussed. maybe i sound like i'm wearing a tin hat but i don't totally trust their active user numbers or believe that facebook is growing active users in the US. like am i in there bc i have a facebook acct from years ago to run ads and accidentally clicked a fb link once last year? what if i viewed a facebook ad. at some point somebody is deciding what counts as active and i'd bet a dollar that person is incentivized for numbers to be big and monotonic. in my experience it's good to poke at numbers that don't match your intuition. that's how you get to reality. i know your example was farcical, but if you know a lot of people and 100% of them play racquetball, you should seriously question someone who is telling you that football is actually the most popular sport, especially if they have economic incentives for you thinking that's the truth. it's just math.
  - bdangubic 2y ago
    maybe i sound like i'm wearing a tin hat but i don't totally trust their active user numbers or believe that facebook is growing active users in the US it is not their numbers :) i have a facebook acct from years ago to run ads and accidentally clicked a fb link once last year? you won't count in my experience it's good to poke at numbers that don't match your intuition. that's how you get to reality. except what you are doing is not looking at numbers but drawing from either your personal experiences or "oh, I've heard no one is on facebook these days" always follow the money - investors would RUN FOR THE HILLS if Facebook was what you are thinking Facebook is. maybe this will be different in 10+ years when boomers die off and GenZ, GenA are in their "prime" but at this point Facebook is the ruler of social media
    - rgbrgb 2y ago
      investors are no longer investing in fb, they invest in meta

by rgbrgb 2y ago

That shows quarterly revenue not user activity in the US? In my orbit there is nearly 0 Facebook usage outside of a few boomers but instagram seems very popular.

scarface_74 2y ago

So you’re going to ignore publicly available information based on your anecdote?

bdangubic 2y ago

"In my orbit" there 100% of the people play racquetball which means there are roughly 350 million players in the USA - hence it is the most popular sport on the planet and owner of my local team is richer than all NFL owners combined /s :) Also see https://www.statista.com/statistics/408971/number-of-us-facebook-users/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/408971/number-of-us-face... just for kicks :)

rgbrgb 2y ago
ok well at least that's the number that was being discussed. maybe i sound like i'm wearing a tin hat but i don't totally trust their active user numbers or believe that facebook is growing active users in the US. like am i in there bc i have a facebook acct from years ago to run ads and accidentally clicked a fb link once last year? what if i viewed a facebook ad. at some point somebody is deciding what counts as active and i'd bet a dollar that person is incentivized for numbers to be big and monotonic. in my experience it's good to poke at numbers that don't match your intuition. that's how you get to reality. i know your example was farcical, but if you know a lot of people and 100% of them play racquetball, you should seriously question someone who is telling you that football is actually the most popular sport, especially if they have economic incentives for you thinking that's the truth. it's just math.
- bdangubic 2y ago
  maybe i sound like i'm wearing a tin hat but i don't totally trust their active user numbers or believe that facebook is growing active users in the US it is not their numbers :) i have a facebook acct from years ago to run ads and accidentally clicked a fb link once last year? you won't count in my experience it's good to poke at numbers that don't match your intuition. that's how you get to reality. except what you are doing is not looking at numbers but drawing from either your personal experiences or "oh, I've heard no one is on facebook these days" always follow the money - investors would RUN FOR THE HILLS if Facebook was what you are thinking Facebook is. maybe this will be different in 10+ years when boomers die off and GenZ, GenA are in their "prime" but at this point Facebook is the ruler of social media
  - rgbrgb 2y ago
    investors are no longer investing in fb, they invest in meta