10 Reasons Zuck's Comeback is Unstoppable

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I've been an entrepreneur for the last decade across multiple companies. I've done a lot of work in Silicon Valley, so that's mostly what I talk about. I've raised over 10 rounds of venture capital totaling over $100m in funding.

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[Gabriel-msqw]

Facebook is really popular in Asia/Africa, also with older population in the western world.

[juliusfucik]

I stopped using FB 6 years ago. Did not miss it for more than a day or two.

[MrlegendOr]

A year without Facebook and Instagram. One of the best decisions of my life. I'm definitely going to renew this experience.🙃

[Bruno-xbmt]

Facebook in the west is still going strong thanks to groups, marketplace and events. As a car guy a lot of people buy and sell cars and parts, find solutions for their car on groups dedicated to its type and find out about car related events on and i’m guessing people with other hobbies/interests use it the same way

[VenturiLife]

I'm actually shocked Facebook doesn't have better competition in the space.

[benten]

Facebook has become a place for ads. My feed is 90% filled with advertisements, there's no incentive for me to use it.

[PetePhD]

I take issue with the use of "losing" instead of "spending" or "investing" when decribing the amount of money they are putting towards building a new part of their business.

[Well_Earned_Siesta]

Most Americans have no idea how popular Whatsapp is outside of the US. It's *the* default communication app for _everything_. When I lived outside the US, it was how everyone communicates; not just with your friends, but also the landlord, work communication and calls, the bank, the tailor, restaurant reservations, even government communications. No one even asks if you have Whatsapp, its just assumed.

[uku]

Crazy how out of touch with the world some people are to think Meta is dying. Not only are their old businesses still thriving but they are innovating in new fields that will so obviously be the most important technologies in the near-future.

[FairBeautyEssentials]

Well, I can honestly say I removed every single one of these apps from my phone. Deactivated all my accounts. Yes it was fun when I was in my early 30s. I am 44 no. Too old for this. I have no energy and I am just overwhelmed and tired of all of it. What really killed it for me is that I am just disgusted how Zuck continues to copy every single app and or he would go buy them out right instead🤮It’s like we can never get away from him… I use YouTube because YouTube to me is like TV, it’s nothing but a bunch of videos on YouTube, I can deal with YouTube. Social media, I’m over it!

[OYT]

19 minutes into the video I finally realize this was just a 20 minute long Mark Zuckerberg Ad LOL

[ryanreedgibson]

Assuming a company is "dead" because you don't like it or you think it "feels boring" is as moronic as it sounds. Both are not technical terms and your feelings mean nothing. The market value of it's shares could almost mean nothing as well because it has little to do with fundamentals.

[OpenSourceLowTech]

I admin a couple Facebook groups. It's the most broken software on the internet. Nothing works, the interface design is pointlessly inept, the community standards AI is a literal 90s era straight keyword lookup list with zero capacity for context, most of the official boilerplate has basic spelling and grammar errors, and if you're a spammer you essentially have free reign. Marketplace is essentially 100% scams, and even their advertising platform is dysfunctional to the point of being actually quite unsafe.
Meanwhile hate speech runs unchecked and the platform is implicated in current ongoing actual warcrimes because they don't want to pay for the staff required to prevent any of this.

Every group and page admin is pretty vocal about how much we'd love to quit the platform entirely, our communities in tow, the millisecond any viable alternative becomes available.

The only thing FB does well is be a monopoly. I can't wait for it to die.

[somerandomfella]

Deleted Facebook years ago. Best thing I've ever done. Going to stop using Whatsapp & Messenger once a new competitor gets released.

[gouthamkm]

You are right, he is rentless. & fb is alive because of fb groups. So you should mention the recent quality of metaverse increased drastically in the interview of lex Friedman

[beowulf]

America doesn't realize that Facebook has users abroad haha

[donutsarecute]

In my country, the Philippines, Facebook is still very popular as well as WhatsApp being popular in Indonesia and India.

[mrchefcheck]

My friends and family are all still on it constantly. It's super easy to set up events, group pages and group messages. No way we're stopping soon.

[neilbakangmodise]

Dude, I thought about this a while back, how come they say, "the US Dollar is dead" "tesla is dead" "Netflix is dead" and I thought to myself, things that big don't just die overnight, unless someone royally messed up at the top. And that is not common.

[HarithAL]

Actually indonesian gen Z are quiting Facebook but as the smartphone getting cheaper and cheaper everybody start to using smartphone and the majority Facebook user now days are older people who recently got their first smartphone