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bigfoigon Once mocked, Facebook’s $1B acquisition of Instagram was a good move

I'm fairly certain approximately 100% of the people in that thread who thought the IG move was a bad idea also did absolutely nothing to bet AGAINST the move they were so sure about

in the end they were just speculators speculating

My point is not that "commenting on the internet is dumb cause it might make you look like an idiot" but the fact is that probably zero of the detractors in the HN link posted had anything other than an uninformed opinion

bigfoigon Once mocked, Facebook’s $1B acquisition of Instagram was a good move

if the only reason you're right and they're wrong is because you enjoyed the benefit of hindsight, then i would say that's not much to brag about...

bigfoigon Once mocked, Facebook’s $1B acquisition of Instagram was a good move

made an account to post this b/c I don't normally post on hackernews

but does anyone else get a sense of schadenfreude when reading these comments

There are people doubting that Facebook could monetize or become a blue chip stock

There's a comment of a guy being sure that Instagram would fail and literally says "Bookmark this comment, see you in 2022" (Five years to go boys)

This is why I'm convinced that people should honestly share like 1% of what they are really thinking in comments. Yeah, there might be a 1% chance that Instagram would succeed, but do you really want to look like the idiot doubting it could ever happen, with your comment immortalized on the world wide web five years later when you're proven wrong?