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• Whostosay@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s absolutely insane that there’s 3B+ people on Facebook. I honestly don’t believe that number is accurate at all.

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  • gedaliyah@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think it’s both. There are an unbelievable number of people on Facebook, and there are also a TON of bots and inauthentic users. Meta has every incentive to exaggerate their numbers and permit bad actors (at least up to the point that real users are driven away). Same goes for all corporate social media.

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  • theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Everyone. Damn near everyone has a phone at this point, Facebook even handed them out to keep the user numbers growing at one point

    People who live in dirt floor huts walk to churches or other gathering places to charge them. The cheapest smart phones are essentially worthless, so there’s no point stealing or selling them.

    And cell service isn’t all that expensive to run, so it’s priced to what people will pay

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    • Whostosay@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Huh. That’s a wild strategy, as for the other stuff that’s interesting, thanks for letting me know

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      • theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Sure thing, and for the record I’m a primary source. I’ve seen this directly, going back more than a decade

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• OozingPositron@feddit.cl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The logos for Instagram and WhatsApp are interchanged.

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