Can India Save Facebook?

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Can India save Facebook? I think a better question is "can anything save Facebook?"

"This year, eMarketer predicts, the country (India) will enjoy 40 percent growth in Facebook users, the most of any market in the world and more than twice as quickly as regional second-place Indonesia," declared the company to the Times of India. Being well-entrenched in a market that has a potential 1 billion users to tap into could be the key to Facebook’s longevity.
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well it happened to Orkut, and they are closing shop
 
Uhhhh, India's GDP per capita is $1500. This is not like the US market where half the population are women that are checking their facebook every 15 mins at work or when taking care of the kids at home, and why are advertisers going to care about reaching consumers that have less disposable income in a year than Americans facebook chicks spend in a week?

I'd focus on north east asia if I were them, China/Korea/Japan.
 
I got off of it after getting called a jew-kike zionist. Hell even dumb ass twitter has turned from stupid chit chat site to dog pile group think central. Whatever. Social media has gone from pretty cool way to connect to others to propaganda mill supreme.
 
Yep, American men don't check facebook. We're too busy building log cabins out of cacti and making pelts out of furry creatures.
 
Ducman69 said:
Uhhhh, India's GDP per capita is $1500. This is not like the US market where half the population are women that are checking their facebook every 15 mins at work or when taking care of the kids at home, and why are advertisers going to care about reaching consumers that have less disposable income in a year than Americans facebook chicks spend in a week?

I'd focus on north east asia if I were them, China/Korea/Japan.
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All in India speak English, not many in China/Korea/Japan, so while they dont have much buying power, they have many more who understands what they are buying, I guess it would even out, except in this case, countries like Korea/Japan are already high-tech and already absorbed by their own corporations, that leave's China, who doesnt speak English much.

So India seems to be an OK choice, at some point they may(will?) become richer, and by then it's the ones who were there first to set foot there, that will get the sales "Old original brand, since 2014" type of thing, and not some new unheard of.

An investment, you have to spend money to make money.
 
Outsourcing to India is always a good idea!!

In other words..

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MindBuster said:
All in India speak English, not many in China/Korea/Japan, so while they dont have much buying power, they have many more who understands what they are buying, I guess it would even out, except in this case, countries like Korea/Japan are already high-tech and already absorbed by their own corporations, that leave's China, who doesnt speak English much.
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A very high percentage of the youth in China now speak English, at least in urban areas. Going to college there, being able to pass full testing in "business English" is a requirement for their equivalent of a Bachelor's degree; without it, it's more of an Associate's degree.
 
Ducman69 said:
This is not like the US market where half the population are women that are checking their facebook every 15 mins at work or when taking care of the kids at home, and why are advertisers going to care about reaching consumers that have less disposable income in a year than Americans facebook chicks spend in a week?
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Wow, that's an amazingly clueless statement about women and their use of social media.
 
Ducman69 said:
Uhhhh, India's GDP per capita is $1500. This is not like the US market where half the population are women that are checking their facebook every 15 mins at work or when taking care of the kids at home, and why are advertisers going to care about reaching consumers that have less disposable income in a year than Americans facebook chicks spend in a week?
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The goat care products market is huge, Jerry. HUGE.
 
MindBuster said:
So India seems to be an OK choice, at some point they may(will?) become richer, and by then it's the ones who were there first to set foot there, that will get the sales "Old original brand, since 2014" type of thing, and not some new unheard of.
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Not while they condone a rape culture of gang assaults on buses and burning wives in trashcans. You just do not move forward as a society when you alienate and suppress 51% of your population and can't let go of the stone age.
 
I only use Facebook for events otherwise it's just a lot of noise, advertisements, people quoting other people since they can't come up with their own, selfies, etc. Have to see if I can unfollow someone and still get the events.
 
I didn't know facebook needed saving. Seems to be doing really well with my peer group, which is parents of young children.
 
Team Obi Juan said:
Yep, American men don't check facebook. We're too busy building log cabins out of cacti and making pelts out of furry creatures.
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Take this to the bank:
FaceBook, Twitter, and the rest of social media is for shallow, self absorbed people.
The problem is we have a generation of these types.

NOBODY CARES about 6 pictures of baby's 2rd new tooth or someone's rat dog's birthday, even if you put a little hat on their head.
If this kind of thing is important to you then you have way, way too much time on your hands and you need to be diligently working at something meaningful instead of something meaningless.
 
Ducman69 said:
Uhhhh, India's GDP per capita is $1500. This is not like the US market where half the population are women that are checking their facebook every 15 mins at work or when taking care of the kids at home, and why are advertisers going to care about reaching consumers that have less disposable income in a year than Americans facebook chicks spend in a week?

I'd focus on north east asia if I were them, China/Korea/Japan.
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Headcount it the new currency on wallstreet. Growth in India would beef up their headcount numbers.
 
schizrade said:
I got off of it after getting called a jew-kike zionist. Hell even dumb ass twitter has turned from stupid chit chat site to dog pile group think central. Whatever. Social media has gone from pretty cool way to connect to others to propaganda mill supreme.
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Why do you think they want wi-fi in the classrooms and forced you kids to do homework via the internet.
 
Nothing will save facebook. IT is valued on continual growth, and it has neither the markets to grow into as facebook proper, nor does it have the ability to generate enough revenue to justify it's valuation or pay an attractive dividend. AT some point it will run out of perceived potential, and it will either collapse, or have aquired a variety of smaller companies that lets it shuffle along while being fairly unpopular. Kind of like yahoo, but with roughly twice the outstanding shares.
 
Mashie I didn't think it needed saving either and apparently we are correct:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/facebook-doubles-profit-boosts-revenue-61-1.2716071

"Facebook Inc. increased its revenue 61 per cent in the second quarter and doubled its profit, beating Wall Street’s targets.

The social networking company is riding high because of strong demand for its mobile advertising business."

Sensational headlines are sensational
 
Facebook doesn't need saving...as much as I wish it would plummet into the ground never to rise again. Draxx has the right of it. There was a discussion on this on the news earlier today, and Facebook is poised for growth in ad revenue.

A huge amount of that 61% is actually in the mobile sector, which they also plan to expand. Coming next - video ads on Facebook stream of all shapes and sizes. On walls, on streams. Everywhere. Including mobile! Facebook figures that people are willing to consume "vine/instagram" style quick video media, so why not send more ads! Atop this, they're going to be monetizing mobile at all levels on the long term plan, including both "Messenger" and their newly acquired WhatsApp. Furthermore, they plan to have some some of money-transfer-via-facebook direct, opening some sort of Facebook controlled finance alternative; this is also a longer-term plan.

Its sickening how this nation and Wall Street in particular only values growth and nothing else, but its even worse to see Facebook propagate in the worst ways possible. Their business model is toxic and pushes towards a web where everyone's information is made into commodity, tracked, and sold, damn the consequences; an environment where new feature X comes with a highly obfuscated cost. We already know it is one of the greatest assaults on privacy in the digital age , yet that doesn't seem to discourage the average user and sadly at this point, I'm not sure what will.
 
Xaeos said:
Their business model is toxic and pushes towards a web where everyone's information is made into commodity, tracked, and sold, damn the consequences; an environment where new feature X comes with a highly obfuscated cost. We already know it is one of the greatest assaults on privacy in the digital age , yet that doesn't seem to discourage the average user and sadly at this point, I'm not sure what will.
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They're just following Google's data mining lead and not doing it as effectively.
 
I find all this data mining enormously convenient for my own personal evil reasons. :D

I tried to like Amazon Prime Music but I just couldn't. Now I have Prime AND Google All Access...

Interestingly a band like Tool is conspicuously absent from the nearly global availability there.

Why would these guys dislike Google so much?

I met Danny Carey once and he was too tall to be normal.

Maynard James Keenan seems like the pedophile child pornographer type (but he isn't).
 
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