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Facebook Reports Slowing Revenue and User Growth (cnbc.com)
Facebook released its third-quarter earnings on Tuesday and the results are mixed. While revenue rose 33 percent and profit increased 9 percent for the third quarter from a year earlier, revenue growth was down from the 42 percent jump that Facebook had reported in the previous quarter (Warning: source may be paywalled; alternative source). "Facebook also said its daily active users increased 9 percent from a year earlier to 1.49 billion, compared with 11 percent growth in the previous quarter," reports The New York Times. "It's monthly active users reached 2.27 billion." From the report: The social network has spent the past 18 months under scrutiny for the spread of disinformation, hate speech and leaks of user data. Executives have vowed change and Facebook has scrambled to apply fixes, even as new issues surface on an almost weekly basis. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, has said there is likely to be future hits to profit margins as it works to repair systemic issues. The social network has pledged to hire tens of thousands more people to monitor content across its platform.
Bullshit! It's accelerating user growth! (In the negative direction.)
and they wonder what happened to user growth. Censorship is never going to work.
Slowing economy...could be only TRUMP blaming the fed.
Nah, alomst tw years after he left, it is of course, the Kenyan Terror baby's fault.
We should count ourselves fortunate to have elected a president who has never been wrong, and never will be.
When the hell are we going to make this approved by God who walks among us president for life, and extend all powers to his wis and faultless decisions. Wake up America!
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
the population of earth is about 7.5 billion
so facebook has 2.3 billion users
how many potential users are left to get?
5.2 billion
but
1.3 billion people live in China, which bans facebook, and has better alternatives anyways
that brings us down to 3.9 billion
but 1 billion people live in grinding poverty and could never afford it
that brings us to 2.9 billion
about a billion people are children
we are down to 0.9 billion
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Basically Facebook's only place to massively get user growth is Africa;. But WeChat is much more popular there.
Seriously, how lame do you have to be to still use FB?
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Thank the devil.
... and nothing of value was lost
Oh BTW first post!
Eventually more will leave then become new users. Were close to that point.
... I'm a bit torn. If Facebook is starting to die, maybe there is a God...
The 2 night Frontline documentary covers many of the issues with Facebook:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/front...
It's clear that Facebook is everyone's enemy. So why would anyone use them just so they can manipulate you for their own purposes or just rent that manipulation information about you for profit?
Think of the creepiest entity ever watching and listening in on everything you do on their platform then using all the info you provide against you for profit. That is what Facebook is!
Facebook is billions of individual "Skinner Boxes." And if you use it you are the pigeon!
The fact that Zuckerberg publicly admitted to saying "I guess people trust me with their information... dumb fucks" and people still use Facebook leads me to the conclusion that there are 2 billion idiots in the world.
If you are selective with what you post and cognizant of manipulation attempts, you can still use it to gain contacts. Unfollow judiciously.
There are many reasons not to use Facebook. I realize that it has its uses as well.
But I only need this old bit of news not to open an account on their site again.
Facebook reveals news feed experiment to control emotions
Protests over secret study involving 689,000 users in which friends' postings were moved to influence moods
https://www.theguardian.com/te...
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It has published details of a vast experiment in which it manipulated information posted on 689,000 users' home pages and found it could make people feel more positive or negative through a process of "emotional contagion".
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I now avoid Twitter altogether, while the updates from people you follow could be useful and interesting, the following comments are guaranteed to make your day worse. Twitter seems perfect for people with no insight or talent to blare out their stupidity and get it amplified by other numbskulls.
Worst of it all is that the panicking old news is latching on to that to create clickbait news in a failing attempt to stay alive. Self-destructive behavior.
"Let's see what people say on Twitter", for the love of God, NO! You have lost all credibility as a serious source of information.
L'Idiot
There's a lot of crap on Facebook that offends me. I hope we can also get rid of the foul language and other offensive items as well. Having them begin to censor is a positive so I'm hoping to get rid of the language issues too. P*rn and skimpy items should also go. There's kids on Facebook I don't want them to search and find that stuff on Facebook at all. I'm glad you were in support of the continued censoring on Facebook
How about a pre-post scan to determine if bullying language and other offensive items are about to be posted and stop the post?
You're not the real Ol Olsoc, he has a 4-digit user ID here, yours is 7 digits, please fuck off back to 4chan, you massive faggot. Also Trump is a TRAITOR who continually attacks the Constitution, which POTUS is supposed to defend and protect above all else.
The collection of data from every interaction is at scale. Every interaction is recorded, while manipulation and testing for effective manipulation is constant.
If you are using Facebook and *think* you are cognizant of the manipulation, you are being effectively manipulated.
If you provide 300 Likes to Facebook, or just visit sites with Like buttons they know about how you'll react to given stimuli (an article, news post, ad, pitch) than your spouse or family.
Newsfeed is particularly manipulative. It watches every click all the time and quickly builds an interest and personality profile on users.
All salespeople, grifters and conmen know that the more they know about the mark, the easier it is to manipulate them. You give Facebook and anyone they rent the data they've collected on you tremendous power over you in exchange just for connecting with other people. Something you can easily do on the Internet without using Facebook.
Facebook is billions of individual "Skinner Boxes." And if you use it you are the pigeon!