IG

btoned

You know what the two gateways to the internet are? Google Facebook/IG I hate it but here we are. Maybe Grindr too.

Etroarl55

Had SMCI calls for sympathy trade for a strike at 41, they should be up 50% if these gains can be kept. But it’s muted response and IG already priced in mostly rip.

LegendKiller911

I can live without IG. Threads was ded for most after 2 days of launch. Facebook only popular in certain countries. Never used it for like 10 years or more. Only thing that is essential rn globally is whatsapp.

Monster_Dumps_2026

Lets be honest. As a work from home person myself. When WFH kicked off there were TONS of videos all over tiktok and IG of people "Gaming the system" Taking meetings in there bed, saying they only work 2 hours a day today. Initially WFH types during the pandemic were MORE efficient and gave more output. Then people started to do the opposite and theres study around the differences in output. How could you expect a CEO NOT to have this type of vibes when theres countless of public examples of workers taking advantage. What he said was deplorable for sure. But if you think WFH companies arent increasing the tools monitoring systems to ensure youre actually working then you have another thing coming. We laughed at them, took advantage and then bragged about it publicly. How do people not understand where this reaction comes from.

m0nk_3y_gw

Google is much much more than gmail. Facebook/IG/whatsapp are advertising platforms

reality_hijacker

The comment was talking about FB and IG.

Supertainment

"Wanna watch me play rain bet?!??!?!" - Some dude on IG with 20k followers

Specialist-Apricot46

Why? All the kids are into zyn products, why on earth would people want to get cancer again? Vacation smokes for the IG arent going to move the needle

BobLoblaw_BirdLaw

Yes exactly. The narrative is more important than the short term revenue. In the long run this will be a significant portion of their profit, they will own more communication channels with end users. And every business in the world will need to pay up to talk to their customers, in an automated and most efficient manner. This is what their ai should be used for. They just don’t do a great job at showcasing it because this isn’t a shiny toy and mark is obsessed with creating the new platform so he doesn’t have to obey apple. Right now you can’t even find a video on instagram. Ideally you ask it any question, like “is it cloudy at machu pichu this morning” and it finds the answer based on its up to the minute picture. But no, product managers at Meta are doing god knows what. Metas IG search reminds me of Reddits search back in 2009. Freakin embarrassing. Anyway I digress. Yes what you said is the narrative that will drive their next bull cycle. Analyst are usually just too late to the game. Other than mark magically saying he’s down with capex and reality labs.

Fourfifteen415

I think you're grossly underestimating Nike. Also where are you in the world? Last time I was in London every young person had dunks on. Japan loves Nike. In the Bay Area the Nike culture is still strong with the uncs, my Filipino people etc. Nike has big time reach, they are capable of getting millions of eyes anytime they want. Nike IG followers: 291 million All the other companies you mentioned combined: < 15 million Turn on the TV, NFL, NBA, MLB, NCAA all Nike. Did you watch the world cup? Lots of Nike. Nike also did 46 billion in revenue last year, New Balance did 9 and that's really impressive for them that's incredible growth from 2024. In 10 years Nike is still going to be entrenched in all those professional sports industries. Maybe New Balance keeps growing, or maybe they're just trendy right now and take a back seat to the next shoe trend (which could be Nike).

Mage_Ozz

Im totally wjth you . The potential of whatsapp as the integrated automatic agent, bot, self-manage little ecommerce with catalogue, linked to IG AND YOU CAN MAKE IT IN 1 night with any AgenticIA As soon as they integrate payment method is over they have massive potential

manlymatt83

Weekend IG showing flat. So futs will be flat too?

btoned

You could definitely categorize TikTok in the same realm with IG but how did Zuck combat that? He just copied their service and pasted in reels.

btoned

I hate META and I hate Zuck. With that being said there's literally no other social media competitors that are on par with IG or FB and they will eventually introduce a widespread paid tier that people will pony up for with features they'll most likely developing now.

VOO_bull_forever

# extremely dumb ber jerking off to the IG page of bull's wife. straight facts

BriackYOLO

Yeap! I really need to take it easy. I don’t even use IG after Reddit …

imustbegthequestion

I believed you just got Jackson Saucy HOLED. CALLED IT. Y'ALL STUCK AT THE SHOES SLOTS AND I'M PLAYING BACCARAT IN MONACO. CHECK MY IG. I AIN'T LYING. MY NAME IS RYAN...

1098duc_w_the_termi

What’s with all this garbage about morality on the front page lately. IG and TikTok are a plague. Reddit sucks too but we know that

RollingMeteors

>The fact that a 13 year old can use all these social media platforms is absurd alone. I'm a parent, but before that it was just a random number to me. As a parent, I'd like to see it at 18, but think 16 might be a more reasonable number. 13 is too young. To me this is the equivalent of a 13 year old walking into any place of business. Why should it be the businesses responsibility to make sure your child is policed by you? If a 13 year old walks into a bar where alcohol is sold then it's the bars problem. People think FB/IG are still 'relevant' when microblogging is starting to take off reminiscent of the HTML1.0 days. ¿How do you plant to demand open source projects demand their user base to be of a certain age? You're going to have to restrict your minor's computer access ***yourself***.

Lovedd1

I reported a guy literally named iluvyungp*ssy (censoring) on Instagram. He was following a bunch of girls between the ages of 13-15. He requested to follow me because my bio was silly and my picture looked young but I was 21. I reported him and IG started flagging anything I shared as spam and gave me warnings about if they had to flag more stuff my account would be deleted.

Plastic_Stretch_8837

Oh yea? So kids are forced be on FB or IG? Or do parents allow it? Not only allow it - they sign up for them with a bullshit birthday since most are not old enough in the first place. They allow it knowing it’s super harmful. I have two. Only one old enough to be on it and she’s not. She got a handful of friends all about it and handful like her that are not allowed. And guess what? You can tell which kids are on it vs not. Differences in manner. Word choices. Overall demeanor. Life is a series of choices. I remember years ago fat fucks were blame the food industry for making them fat. It’s the same cycle. Lazy fucks with no discipline blaming everything and everybody but what’s in front of the mirror.

BlackRaspberryJammin

So all those children have been blocked from using BF and IG and now their families will get plenty of cash to help them with treatment... right?... right? Or lawyers buying a Tuesday Lambo.

BlackRaspberryJammin

So all those children have been blocked from using BF and IG and now their families will get plenty of cash to help them with treatment... right?... right? Or lawyers buying a Tuesday Lambo.

Competitive-Water944

You think your kids are gonna ask you if they can make an IG? Lol

spreadbetfred

World melting down and can’t login to IG. Corruption at its peak

Impressive_Trick_573

Any IG users got login issues?

iamjt

Ah how's everything doing guys. IG is down so in basically liquidated if the MMs are selling every shit down

mtnrnnr802

Whatever happened to that long neck dude who was all over IG like 10 yrs ago

TheoryInttro

Four pajama traders swapping CFDs on [IG.com](http://IG.com)

mred013

Facebook is dying literally. Mostly old people are left using it. good thing they have IG

Chris260364

I was willing to give them a go but they didn't seem to want to take my trades. Everything I tried to open was rejected. Also I found the platform confusing compared to IG's. I got frustrated with it within the first week and for me it just seemed unworkable. I couldn't even buy shares . Everything I tried to do was rejected.

Eyoba_19

Yeah, IB are quite hard to get passed, but they're kind of the jack of all trades when it comes to trading, they just do EVERYTHING and to be fair quite well too. Happy to help, but if you're in the UK I understand the tax benefits you get from IG, so moving over to IB might not be ideal.

Eyoba_19

Yeah heard they're famous in the UK for that. Just checked for myself, they're about 2.5%+ the benchmark, which is quite high compared to IB. Not to push you over to them or anything but thought you should know. If IG does options and spreads are good you can do the strat there too

Chris260364

I look at your broker but have just withdrawn my money back. I thought their platform was complicated. Not sure if I'm on the same page but with IG I do futures contracts rather than paying overnights IG is a decent broker.

OG_L0c

How is META still worth $1.5T? * Metaverse was a disaster * IG is only good for stalking MILFs * only old people use Facebook * Facebook marketplace is for scammers and thieves * Facebook dating is even worse than LinkedIn

Timely_Dentist_5078

well there's a difference in shitting on Zuck for his business decisions and boycotting Meta products for other reasons. this thread seems to be more about Zuck's business acumen so I'm not sure why you think it's relevant that people still spend time on IG/WA/FB

GenesGeniesJeans

IG credit spreads are going up. Hold on to your butts.

lolgoodone34

That is the product. All the IG users…

YourWifesBoyfrien69

What are we suppose to do w/o IG? Read book? Fuk you.

Some-Platform1968

Acquiring successful companies like WhatsApp and IG. I think the Metaverse showed us what Zuck is capable of himself

CollegeSorry5923

My inside information IG says yes.

LogisticsGod

I'm in DEC calls for META (Don't Zuck me Mark) and NFLX. Idk about memory and shit, but I use IG and watch TV.

Rambodeth_

I knew it once i started seeing all these IG traders saying don't buy the dip last night lol

Prestigious_Rod6969

X and never use IG or Snap or Whatscrap

Pitiful_Fox5681

Millennial, have never used IG. 

TheRealDipsos

Will doomscroll on IG to help my meta investment

Prestigious_Rod6969

Genx and boomers use FB, all gens use IG

FrankLucasV2

This is more credit analysis than anything else, despite being part of a subredddit that talks about equities... there are some things wrt *SPVs* worth noting that require nuance. First, if one of these tech companies decides to step away from the deal, the SPV has to find a new tenant for the lease which can only be another hyperscaler, who has the same business model and their own SPV. But those same companies simultaneously invest in those SPVs for a minority interest. If the SPV goes bankrupt, they still stand to lose significant amounts of money even though they terminate the lease. Even if their minority interest is small (well, less than 50%) percentage wise, it's still a big exposure since the numbers are big. You might think not including any provision for that in the books paints a too rosy picture of the financials once the numbers get bigger. Life insurers funding these SPVs via assets from their general accounts face classic [asset-liability mismatch risk](https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/technology/insurers-are-funding-ai-infrastructure--naic-wants-to-know-if-the-ratings-hold-up-578762.aspx). Insurance regulation assumes long liabilities are matched with liquid, diversified assets as opposed to illiquid, concentrated bets or runaway AI capex. Banks and funds love to call loans to SPVs low risk, mostly because the tenants are hyperscalers with IG credits. Ring-fencing assets in SPVs is a sensible thing to do. If a lender only holds a minority stake in the SPV, they can keep the exposure off their own books, but they’re still on the hook if things go south. Lenders will point to the tenant’s pristine credit, but construction risk sits squarely with the SPV. Since these are *mostly* non (or limited) recourse loans, lenders have to chase the SPV’s assets first before looking anywhere else for repayment. The opaque nature of SPVs makes it difficult for people to assess who’s on the hook when things go askew. One may wonder if risk stays contained within PC funds or if institutional investors like pension funds and insurers become victims due to contagion. Because hyperscalers take minority stakes in the SPVs, it doesn’t show up on their balance sheets but it ultimately exists to serve them as it isolates financial risk away from the borrower in a bankruptcy remote structure. The hyperscaler is still the de-facto owner and any loan defaults would hit its credit rating. Rating agencies see this and act like they’re arms-length deals.  I think folks are going to realize that in 2026, the AI story is shifting away from venture and more into the credit markets, which is already happening. Watch credit!

Ok_Syllabub_5937

Long term rates are going up, not short term. And the ETF constituents are blue-blood American companies with IG ratings so their borrow rates aren’t as sensitive.

LarryStink

"AI / Hyperscaler / Datacenter issuance (IG + Loans) is now tracking at roughly 12x the annual average of the entire 2015–2024 period — and already 2x all of 2025, at a cool $269 billion YTD"

BriackYOLO

1. Broke up with her boyfriend and chopped off the memory of him. 2. Consuming way too much content from IG influencers( popular short hair now) 3. Needed a drastic life change before hitting 30. 4. Got tired of long hair maintenance. Real question though... why do you care so much?

iisconfused247

# Are investing discords all scams? Specifically thinking of "Invest with Charan" Probably a dumb question, but some of these guys are pretty huge on IG, tiktok etc. Charan's discord has 30K+ members. Is it a scam? Is it helpful to learn from if you don't blindly follow their trades?

ratskin69

I work in digital marketing. Nothing has better returns than FB. IG, tiktok, snapchat, reddit, etc... doesn't come close

PaperHandsTheDip

yah, whoever running that P&D turned it back on. IG they want to cause more fomo lol. Lotta people gonna be left holding that bag if they fall for it.

ProofByVerbosity

lmao, from what? FB which is a dying bot site used to promote right wing misinformation? IG? How's the metaverse doing? Yes, I'm sure those snazy glasses and being last place in the AI race will really boost their value.

Western_Science_7139

What do you think of this: Hansa Bipharma. (HSNA-ST) I don't think it has an american listing yet tho. The big deciding factor is well first the approval but secondly the label/indication. But there's not much financing risk as they sold the rights for the European market for a stamp fee. The product is for desentization of kidney transplants. Which essentially would allow anyone to give a kidney to anyone, as the immune systems IG antibodies are cleaved for a window of 7 days, making a transplant possible that wasn't before - and essentially making everyone a match to everyone. It has potential for substantial offlabel use - in people who want to save their loved ones by donating one of their kidneys, no matter the cost. Additionally, there are a lot of people with inherent immunizations towards other individuals. This is measured by levels of CPRA, such as "CPRA >99,9%" or "CPRA >98%". Meaning you will match less than 99,9% of people or less than 98% of people. So with the subset of already very limited kidneys - it's essentially impossible to find a donor for you, unless you get a desensitization before the transplant. SoC is not very good at this compared to Imlfidase. The market opportunity if the indication is 99,9% is 200-400 mUSD annual sales, but if they get for a broader population (98%) it could be upwards of 2 billion dollars + what ever off-label of people who just want to save their parents/kids and give them one of their two kidneys. The current market value is 400 mUSD, which I think is a steal.

dorkstar1

Twitter was good earlier without IG or FB like media content on it’s scrolling screen

HeftyLab5992

Not saying they’re all 100% scammers and have zero good advice, but trying to find guidance in the IG tradeosphere is similar to trying to drink clean water from a swamp

Fuck_boy3456

If MU and SNDK don’t reach $1000 and $2000 respectively. I’ll get on IG live and strip naked

TheBayHarbrButchr

Google IG weekend Naddaq

KweenieQ

Imagine you're within two years of retirement. Start planning noncallable IG bond and CD ladders now. Harvest any equity losses; take some partial profits until you have about two years' worth of living expenses covered. That's what your first ladders will be built from. While you're at it, turn off some of your reinvestment steam. Redirect that cash to high-yield savings. You'll eventually use that to replace maturing bonds or CDs down the road, along with whatever bond or CD principal you don't need to spend right away. You want to give yourself as much time to "sell high" as you possibly can before the bills come due.

WildTittyWrangler

Is IG one of those sites old people use?

FrostySoftPressure

You know when your uncle was leaving some down bad comments on IG to some thots and you were laughing at him, but now you are his age and doing the same thing.

Visua1Mod

>❯ Does pumping shorted stocks means liquidity levels are at the beginning stages of a rally or at the end of a rally. > >Short-covering surges show up at both ends, so the squeeze itself doesn't date the rally — what's around it does. > >Why it's ambiguous > >A squeeze is not liquidity entering the market. It's forced demand against a shrinking float: reflexive, self-extinguishing, and gone permanently once the shorts are out. So "heavily shorted names are ripping" tells you about velocity, not about the depth of the bid underneath. It's a coincident indicator of positioning stress, not a measure of liquidity. > >Beginning-of-rally version > >Off a washed-out low, short covering is the first buyer — before any fundamental buyer will step in. It follows capitulation: forced selling, vol spike, credit stress peaking. Low-quality/high-beta leads because it fell the most and is the most liquidity-sensitive. The confirmation is what happens next: the move broadens into cyclicals and credit-sensitives, HY spreads narrow alongside it, earnings revisions stop falling, and quality participates within a few weeks. Real money follows the squeeze. > >End-of-rally version > >Late in an advance, the same tape means the opposite. Breadth is narrowing, the only thing working is unprofitable/heavily-shorted/meme-adjacent, quality lags, credit stops confirming, and retail call volume is elevated. Here the squeeze is the last marginal buyer, not the first — liquidity being redistributed among existing holders rather than added. Nothing follows through after the covering exhausts. > >Tells that separate them > >\- Credit, not equities. HY/IG spreads are the liquidity read. Confirming → early. Diverging while junk equity rips → late. >\- Fuel gauge. Rising short interest into the move = more fuel. High-and-falling SI with collapsing borrow fees and days-to-cover = fuel spent; that bid can't repeat. >\- Sequencing. Squeeze after capitulation and rising volatility = bottom. Squeeze after extended calm, record leverage/margin, and a long uptrend = distribution. >\- Follow-through window. Does the index make a new high 4–8 weeks after the covering, and does leadership rotate to quality/cyclicals? Squeeze-only moves round-trip. >\- Quality spread. Junk outperforming with improving revisions = early. Junk outperforming on nothing = late. > >Short answer: heavily-shorted stocks leading is most often a late-stage / speculative-phase marker within an existing uptrend, and an early marker only when it comes immediately out of forced liquidation. Judge it by credit spreads and breadth follow-through, not by the squeeze's magnitude. > >This is market mechanics, not a recommendation — and short-interest signals are among the least reliable standalone indicators, so they're best used as confirmation rather than as a trigger. > >✻ Worked for 34s

boxohm

"Look at history after rates get that high", the 10Y sat above 4.6% for most of the 90s and 2000s, and it touched 4.8% in Jan 2025 right before the market ripped all year. Your historical rule has one data point and it's 2022. And 2022 wasn't "rates were high," it was rates quadrupling in a year with 9% inflation and the Fed hiking 75 at a time. Rates chopping around a level we've lived at for two years is not that. Different mechanism entirely. Meanwhile the credit stress you're pointing at: Nvidia's bond deal was 4x oversubscribed. Spreads widening from record tights into a trillion dollars of new supply is issuance math, not a default cycle. IG hyperscalers at 60bps is not distress, CoreWeave at 800+ is a levered neocloud being priced like a levered neocloud. Shocking. You're not early, you're just repackaging 2022 PTSD as a thesis.

lolgoodone34

These zuck the cuck needs to start spending money on share buybacks rather than worthless projects. Not sure why you wouldn’t just focus on the monopoly you have which is WhatsApp and IG. You have millions of people that you know their habits. How can you not focus on that rather than meme stuff like metaverse? Idk stock is pinned

prancinglion

Reddit have few social platform competitors, most of users use it differently compared to how they use IG or X. It's just irreplaceable to me.

SoSuccessful

Anecdotally, based on my IG algo, they seem to have among the most popular and "cool" running sneakers in the market currently. Maybe they're finally figuring out new angles?

gizamo

It's wild. Half a billion loss each quarter. Last year it was about a billion each quarter. The year before, it was about $1.5 billion per quarter. They've literally never had a profitable quarter. It's crazy when comparing [their net income](https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/SNAP/snap/net-income) to [Meta's](https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/META/meta-platforms/net-income). I remember when people here were saying SNAP would replace FB and IG. Lol.

Brawldud

Yep. Everyone I met on Grindr, if they mattered to me I got their phone number or IG or snapchat (or all of the above.) Nobody wants to use Grindr to stay in touch, the app sucks major donkey balls. Even if you pay for ad-free it's still an awful experience to use compared to social media alternatives or even other gay apps like Scruff, who seem to have astoundingly good UI/UX engineers.

ArmadilloFluffy2130

kenny g followed some IG thotties

FrostySoftPressure

Scrolling through IG, so many thots, I don’t believe half of them is real, sad times living in AI lifetime

Eaiaeia

I’m super skeptical of any ai app that claims it can predict the market. Especially the ones promoted on TikTok and IG by dudes in front of lambos in Dubai lol. Have you had a look at Briefr? We built this to deliver daily market audio updates based on your portfolio. Don’t claim to help you predict the market but makes it much easier to cut through the noise of market news.

1098duc_w_the_termi

Is it though? META is SNAP if they hadn’t acquired IG and WhatsApp

jinkyjormpjomp

They don’t. You get their IG or their Snap and move your convos there because the app is barely useable due to enshittification. Everyone I know has jumped ship. A lot of people just have it out of habit at this point but sniffles is where the younger gays have gone and therefore is where all gays will eventually go. 

123789dftr

> You clearly know very little about this industry. You clearly can't see outside of your circle, where you take those anecdotal experiences and put it on the whole platform. > I'm not here to argue pricing theory or stock picks, I'm here to give my take on what's actually happening internally and to their Meta product offering False. You said "this is the beginning of the end [for meta]", that's going beyond what happened to your company's roas. > You also don't understand that company politics play a huge role in the implementation of new product launches... You know what is even worse than not justifying roic for Ai spend? Putting out a worse model for their core business that would lead to decreased revenue in their core business. Oh wait? that didn't happen. > CPM does not determine the 'value' of their ads You are still fundamentally stuck at micro level of your firm 🤣 . ​A higher cpm means your specific ad is costing you more for less return, but cpms do not stay elevated across a global platform unless the broader market finds enough value to keep bidding those prices up. If the entire market was losing money bids would drop and cpms would collapse but they havent because meta knows what its doing, even if your agency is struggling. > especially after andromeda competition in a certain auction has becoming more less relevant than ever before. Suggesting that expanding an ad’s retrieval layer beyond a narrow manual targeting bucket makes auction competition less relevant is laughable. Expanding the candidate pool doesn't lessen competition, it dramatically increases broad auction competition. Just because an ad stops competing strictly inside your self defined niche doesn't mean it became less relevant to the consumer. News flash: consumers are multidimensional humans, not static demographic tags. A user scrolling Instagram doesn't exist solely as one niche, they have broad, overlapping behavioral signals. Meta’s models, which process trillions of cross-surface data points across Facebook, IG, and Reels, know vastly more about what that user is actually likely to click on right now than you or your media buyers ever will with your manual audience settings.

Moepenmoes

[Stock Market Futures - Investing.com](https://www.investing.com/indices/indices-futures) [Nasdaq Index Overview: US Tech 100 Futures Prices and News | IG International](https://www.ig.com/en/indices/markets-indices/us-tech-100) etc

spacklock

This gonna sound cliche as fuck but time and no contact homie. Was broken up with after 9 years last January. Stopped crying about it after 7 months. Stopped thinking about it every day after 9 months. Finally “got over it” after a year. Still think about them and miss them from time to time, but I’m chilling now. You need to remove them off of everything and go no contact. The longer you have them in your vicinity in any capacity, the longer it’s gonna take to heal. I tried to be friends with them after and every time they posted on IG I was back to square one. If I could go back in time, I would’ve blocked them on everything right after and moved out of the shared house immediately instead of waiting for the lease to be up.

ProcedureHopeful2944

Ad revenue is up because they've steadily increased ad costs for their customers. Go look at all the posts and comments from frustrated FB/IG Ad buyers in that sub. Meanwhile, rate of growth has decreased. Notice every third thing you see on FB/IG is a promoted post. Sure AI is helping them deliver better targeted ads, but how long will the profits be able to cover the cost of the buildout?

Most_Grocery4388

Reddit ads feel more premium than FB trash. IG ads are the only useful ad space I see from Meta

Possible-Material693

Just because X, IG and YouTube are garbage doesn’t mean Reddit isn’t also. This place is toxic as fuck

chicu111

Relatively You been to YouTube comment or X or IG?

GenesGeniesJeans

Despite yesterday’s relief rally, nothing is structurally different from earlier this week. Nasdaq 20MA a/d ratio < 1. Hedge fund leverage/debt near all time highs. Oil worries not going away. IG credit spreads starting to tick up. Yields high.

ImMorphic

Yes, pretty sure someone chucked his IG up and he reminds me of Punchmade Dev from Temu lmao. Tayvn been very stupid, hence the reminder.

Timely_Dentist_5078

appreciate we can have a discussion this long without any insults on reddit :) > why Snap is not that popular Snap has 1B MAU and 500M DAILY active users. That is pretty popular considering it's primarily targeted for teens so the % of teens using it is pretty darn high. Like no one is expecting 50 year olds to use snap. > Snap is actually a good example to bring up cause they made a very intentional decision on friend to friend messaging as a contrast to FB/Instagram's strategy. Snap did the exact same thing as FB/IG did. They built a social network that made it feel different from the mainstream one. Like FB first was exclusive to colleges (vs Myspace), and IG was supposed to be for "insta" moments and both eventually expanded so much where it started to feel less personal that it gave room for Snap and BeReal. But Snap did the exact same thing, they started introducing influencers and channels to monetize. It became normal for young people to start asking each other for their snap as soon as they met so people started becoming more performative on snap. my younger sister cried when her snap streak with her close friend ended lol. she basically posted snapchats half the time to show how cool her life was (luckily she's grown up now and has a better relationship with social media) just like how ppl do on IG stories. > But my general point is, we got rid of FB and Instagram (and no replacement products), we'd all be no worse off and I think teenage girls especially would be better off. This is simply not true if we got rid of search engines or google/apple maps or youtube. I can't even imagine the inconvenience of not having Google maps on my phone. There's a lot here and I don't want to ramble too much, but 2 points: 1. SMBs are an important part of our communities and they rely a lot on FB/IG. But I agree for the everyday user Gmail, Google, Maps are way more practical (but that's more of a comment on social media vs utility rather than Meta vs. Google) 2. YouTube is pretty bad...I mean isn't that where Andrew Tate and a lot of conservatives spread propaganda : "YouTube’s impact on mental health is complex. While it provides community and emotional support, excessive use is linked to higher rates of anxiety, depression, and loneliness. The platform's algorithm and endless content can fuel compulsive viewing, unrealistic comparisons, and one-sided relationships known as parasocial bonds". Anyways I don't want it to come off like I'm glazing Meta lol, I've just worked in the industry so I've seen the pros/cons of all the tech companies through working/friends/etc

klyphw

I refuse to believe Threads has 500 million active users. Anytime I see a promoted post from it on my IG it's the most ChatGPT Linkedin ass posts.

Timely_Dentist_5078

> Arab Springs feels like a bad example given how it ended. Not in the context of this conversation though right? It still provided people a place to organize protests that while ultimately didn't go the way people hoped it still was better than nothing? But if not Arab Spring, there's been plenty of movements (good and bad) organized through Meta tools (it gave Bernie, AOC a platform as well as Trump). Ultimately it's a tool. It's like trying to see text messaging is bad because criminals use text messaging. > Maybe you’re too old then to realize how damaging a product like instagram is to the youth? nope I definitely realize it, but I don't think it's anything unique that Meta did and that's where you keep dodging the core conversation. IG stories? That's a rip off Snap. IG Reels? That's a rip off Tik Tok. Facebook? Rip off Myspace. If Meta were to disappear, youth would still have issues with attention spans though Tik Tok, they'd still feel the need to compete socially through Snap or BeReal. I just don't see what Meta has done uniquely with their products that makes it more addictive than any other tech company. Literally all of them are trying to get you glued to their product non-stop. > Renting apartments, buying things, dating, can all happen without Facebook. right, but that's a different conversation. your point was that it was limited utility, now you see to be saying there is utility but maybe not unique utility (which I agree with, I'm not saying Meta is some glamorous company that solved unique problems)

lolgoodone34

They got the monopoly on social media, lot of IG active users. They could literally just use the ad revenue from that, do share buybacks to increase stock price. Then if they want to do random projects on the side, use some of the money to play around. Don’t need insane AI to learn the likes of users. Just insane man

lolgoodone34

Why can’t META just focus on social media? Need to just close all their random shit like reality labs and metaverse and just make IG and WhatsApp better platforms. Aint that where all the money comes from? lmao

Timely_Dentist_5078

> Afaik it's just a simple messaging app (but maybe it's more complicated idk), so I don't see how it could be that harmful. it's really not that simple, it has a lot of features similar to IG. You can post stories, message businesses, follow channels (like ESPN, etc.), video call people - in a lot of countries you can't even do business without WA. Also if you boil it down like that, what is IG? Just a place to message your friends and post photos... > Their two main products, Instagram and Facebook actively make people unhappy and provide very limited utility that's just false, you clearly are coming from a very biased POV if you think two products that have ~3B monthly active users provide very limited utility. Yes, there are people who unfortunately get negative effects, but there are also people who are addicted to gaming, porn, TV shows, etc. you wouldn't call TV shows "limited utility" would you? I mean at the very least there's value for small business to grow. Also wasn't Arab Spring enabled through FB groups? Maybe you're young, but plenty of older people including myself use it because it helps us keep in touch with our friends. I've also found apartments to rent, things to buy, my friend found his SO on FB dating...to say "limited utility"...

Thami15

Meta is a roller-coaster because it's such a good stock when it's just Facebook and IG, but literally every two or three years Mark Zuckerberg has an idea that's gonna crash the stock.

Timely_Dentist_5078

ok so is your issue that meta is a conglomerate or that the products are cancerous...nothing about how Meta built the products is RELATIVELY different than any other tech company (newsflash: including the one you're on right now). I mean if I'm being honest I see way more fake news on reddit than I do on FB/IG (cause I actually use those for it's intended purposes to keep up with my friends)

imustbegthequestion

It amazes me how short sighted people are. Meta doesn't just do fb. Can you imagine how expensive it is to make WhatsApp work in bum fuck shitsStan? How about IG to work at the Super Bowl? Damn. Y'all really belong here. Get off your iPhones and do real research.

Beginning_Juice_4296

meta just siphons IG's revenue to all useless projects

lolgoodone34

Why cant the META rtds stop spending money on AI/data centers and focus up on IG and WhatsApp? Aint that where all their Money coming from? Lmao. W/e will continue holding at $750

LarryStink

Credit spreads are moving with increasing volatility. These arent just the hyperscaler CDS but aggregate IG corporate bond market. Vix is now over 20, and correlations have broken out. Oil approaching 100$ and iran is now acting as an aggressor for the first time since this war started. You do the math. 

VOO_bull_forever

# Hermès bag holders are cooked and I don't take about some IG b*tches LMAOOOOO

VOO_bull_forever

# Hermès bag holders are cooked and I don't take about some IG b*tches LMAOOOOO

Illustrious_Ad_5081

yall seen that dude on IG who bought the absolute top of SNDK. wonder how he’s feeljng

Complete_Contest_493

Have you thought about investing private equity for long game returns? Look up lifegoalinvestments on IG - definitely recommend a follow of his content.