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It definitely seems to be loosing popularity in the US with the most profitable demographics.

Facebook became dominant because it had an aura of exclusivity and successfully captured some trend-setting demographics. If it loses those, no amount of users accessing it through Free Basics is going to make up for it.

I don't believe those are real users after the crazy amounts of bots I saw during the US election.

I'm not sure how you could see enough bots to actually put a dent in the 1.4 billion user number. Maybe you suspect you saw 100, maybe even a 1000, maybe 100,000 bots. Which is 0.007% of their users.

My experience is just a small sample, like a thimbleful of water from a firehose, but it may be representative of the larger picture.

DAUs? Really? Do you have a citation for that figure?

> 1.37 billion daily active users on average for September 2017

https://newsroom.fb.com/company-info/