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Isn't Instagram basically similar now to the original FB product during its best years?

My social circle (consisting mostly of people in their upper 20s to early 40s) has largely abandoned FB in favor of Instagram. My understanding is the younger age brackets are also falling off Instagram in favor of things like Snap and TikTok? (correct me if wrong).

Seems like the major users of the original FB product are now older and/or less tech-saavy people who were late to catch the social networking boat? Again, correct me if I'm wrong.



A social network grows old with its user base.Here in India,new users don't signup to FB but Instagram.New users wanna be where their peers are.Younger users don't wanna be where "old" people are (Except for WhatsApp ).

"Facebook.com" will surely die in India.But Instagram and WhatsApp won't die.FB as a company won't die.Whenever a new social network which can beat FB (by attracting younger generation) comes up,Zuck buys it.So as long as acquisitions are done,FB(company) won't die.


Facebook owns instagram


Exactly.




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