This is kind of a question to the community. Lately we have seen a lot of the big Tech platforms start hitting a wall with subscriber/user growth, or at least a slowdown. Companies like facebook, Netflix, Twitter and many others with are not growing as fast as they used to. What is Unique about these companies though is many of these slowdowns in user growth are not due to disinterest a bad product or the economy moving on, they are due to the Companies physically running out of people in the world to use their platform.
In this article Put Out by Bloomberg, (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-26/the-end-of-facebook-s-easy-growth?utm_campaign=news&utm_medium=bd&utm_source=applenews)
Bloomberg talks about how Facebook’s growth is slowing down.
In the article it talks about Facebook having 2.23 billion users. This Means that if each account was associated with a person that would mean 1/3rd of the world is on facebook. If you account for the fact that China does not really use facebook due to the Great Firewall and a large portion of the world does not have internet access this means Facebook is being used by a large amount of the people that are capable of using Facebook.
My question is what more do investors expect? When Facebook has litterally taken over as the only social network, and almost everyone in the world capable of using facebook uses facebook why are investors getting frightened when growth slows? This would be like if Ford became the worlds only carmaker and 90% of the cars were Ford.
When a company sells their product to litterally everyone on earth what more do investors expect them to do?
Submitted July 28, 2018 at 01:44PM by sunfishtommy https://ift.tt/2M0A4Bn
