[lbotos]

I mean, can they not BUY the next one? It's what they did with Instagram after all.

>What future revenue streams does Facebook have?

The amount of Data facebook has on the behavioral nature of current parents and current and future American children of said parents is _insane_. Facebook may not be a social media company for ever, but big blue will be an advertising powerhouse for a while with the amount of data they have.

[bepotts]

What like the next social network?

I'm much more bearish on antitrust than most people throwing that term around, but even I am against Facebook being able to buy another upstart social network. They cannot be allowed to do that.

Maybe they can do something completely different like Oculus and leverage their infrastructure to make the best product possible. But even then that's a huge gamble, and I don't think Oculus has lived up to anywhere near the hype.

[deltron3030]

They're getting into sports for VR, buying licenses, streaming rights and stuff. Most european soccer clubs are already primarly interacting with their fans through FB. FB might attack Sky sports and similar, and instead promote the idea of the self marketing of clubs and their streaming rights. Right now, in many countries there's still a "middle man" or body that handles the streaming license stuff for entire leagues.

Once clubs realize that they could fill virtual stadiums or sell virtual tickets, this may change. They may even switch to free tickets in the real world to better the stadium atmosphere and fill their virtual stadiums that won't have a capacity cap..

[whywhywhywhy]

>and I don't think Oculus has lived up to anywhere near the hype.

Don't speak too soon, Gaming PC VR was never ever going to be big but they're announcing their first full featured stand alone headset today.

In terms of what Oculus is hoping to achieve today is pretty much Day 1 and everything up until today has been a beta test.

[modwilliam]

They may not be able to. See: Snapchat

[pavlov]

With the way Snapchat's stock price is going, it's going to be snapped up by a bigger player eventually.

[kondro]

Snapchat's market cap is only $12B… and publicly traded. I'm sure they could buy it if they wanted to.

[brandon272]

The ability to buy the next big thing is far from guaranteed.

[CamelCaseName]

Facebook has the power to know what the next big thing is, maybe better than those building it. Reading up on onavo is terrifying.

[m_ke]

I'm sure Google will be willing to beat anything that Facebook offers for the next rising competitor just to hurt them.

[asah]

ISWYD "big blue" = FB not IBM.