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It's sad when social networks and messaging platforms die. Every major one I've gotten invested in has gone belly up: AIM, Xanga, Yahoo Messanger, MSN, Myspace, and now Facebook is hemmoraging users. And Whatsapp isn't too far behind with a lot of its functionality duplicated by RCS or iMessage. The point is, don't get too invested in a messaging platform or social network because they don't last forever.

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> Facebook is hemmoraging users.

Source?

Last I checked, they were serving 2.37 BILLION M.A.U.s.

...That's literally like 30% of the world population. If you exclude babies and under 5, the number is probably more like 40 to 45% of world population.

> Facebook now serves 2.37 billion monthly active users, an increase of 55 million on the previous quarter.

Source: Q1 2019 Earnings Report https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2019/Q1...

From the "Limitations of Key Metrics and Other Data" page of the linked PDF:

"Duplicate and false accounts are very difficult to measure at our scale, and it is possible that the actual number of duplicate and false accounts may vary significantly from our estimates."

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