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30% of the world is using a Facebook product nearly everyday. What other things do that many people share in their daily routines outside of life's necessities?

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Google. Chrome is the most popular browser, Gmail the most popular email, Android the most popular mobile OS and Google the most popular search portal. If you go online you are highly likely to use Google, even if you don't want to as AdSense or Analytics are used on many web sites too. I can't think of a more ubiquitous brand.

Android is the most popular consumer OS, not just the most popular mobile OS. Few, if any, surpass it.

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Very interesting answer, never seen it offered in that perspective but true nonetheless.

That's a good question and really puts it into perspective. From a company-centric focus, and excluding things like "eat food", I thought of:

Google Search/Gmail/Android

iPhone

That was it.

And even iPhones are only about 10% of the world (728 million versus 7.7 people on the planet).

Only 7.7 people on the planet?

What even is seven-tenths of a person?! ;)

Outside of operating systems (Windows, Android, etc.) the only thing I can think of is Google (Chrome, Gmail, Search)

ARM

Most of that is being consumed on smartphones, I would assume.

An occasional diarrhea.

Please don't do this here.

Sorry, it was too much, I agree.

To be fair, the anger came from my dislike of Facebook and similar services. Isn't strong language warranted if you talked about something you see as destroying the fabric of society? I thought that talking politely about them is already "normalizing" something that is harmful. What if the discussion was about drug dealers, the mafia, or such?

Even then it's necessary to remain thoughtful and substantive, because that's the only way to preserve the container for intellectual curiosity. Our duty to preserve the commons here is a higher priority than lashing out at ill-doers who are further away.

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