Who tf is still using Facebook, and how tf is it making so much money still?
this post was submitted on 03 Feb 2024
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Beluga
The vodka?
The whale?
The motherfuckers monetized cetaceans!
The caviar?
The people still using it, are the people that actually click ads, and buy the resulting products... we all know at least one person like this if not many, either in our family, or at work or whatever.
Somebody can correct me, but if I remember correctly it’s widely used in countries such as India and Brazil.
There's entire countries that use Facebook to connect to the Internet. It's basically thier AOL.
I keep a FB account I no longer use because in some professional circles in some countries the expectation is you'll get contact details by sharing that.
And I keep a Whatsapp account because where I am that's the default messaging service for everything and everybody on all phone platforms. Businesses and institutions will reach out to you over it. School will send homework to kids over it, doctors will set appointments over it, nobody will question whether you have it, just look up your phone number on it.
Meta won the social media wars ages ago, it's just that some, especially in the US, didn't notice.
Wow. Never thought you could create a worse space than AoL.
At least AOL was nice enough to say hello and goodbye to you when you used it.
And they sent free CDs, if you happened to want one for some reason,
Instagram, WhatsApp, occulus.... I haven't used Facebook in years, I use Meta daily though.
Facebook Marketplace is one of the least-shit ways to sell things nowadays. I use it just for that.
"least shit"
I hate that people are using it in Canada when Kijiji exists and the experience is so much better.
Your healthcare provider, Facebook the website is only a tiny fraction of the surveillance network they've built
2023 Q3 they had 3 billion monthly active users. Instagram had 2 billion monthly active users.
Showing ads to these users is how they make so much money.
Many of those active users are not people, per se,
And yet advertisers still pay to show them ads
Everyone. I'm not sure why this is still shocking. Seriously, 2B per month. It's not going anywhere any time soon.
The money comes from Vanguard, BlackRock, and Fidelity Investments.
TL;DR: Facebook is owned and funded by a conglomerate of shadow banking systems that allow the ultra-rich to influence global social strata.
Those are just the biggest available ETFs and Fonds. Everyone that owns a couple of MSCI or FTSE fonds technically owns a meta stock but with one of those 3 acting as shareholder
"Shadow Banking" and "ultra rich influence" sounds an awful lot like dog whistling to me.
“Shadow Banking” and “ultra rich influence” sounds an awful lot like dog whistling to me.
Sounds like the 1% to me.
I don't think you understand how the stock market works...
You know when you just come out and say it like that, you sound kinda…. I dunno. Right.
He made over $28 billion yesterday afternoon.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/02/business/meta-stock-surge-mark-zuckerberg/index.html
It’s an amazing what an androids non-apology before Congress will do