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by silisili 1117 days ago
You can't count DAU as an accurate measurement when you're subsidizing half the number with carrier deals.

For hundreds of millions in other countries, FB is the internet because it's cheaper than...the internet.

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It's also often the only place to find local information even if you do have affordable internet. Especially in smaller counties and towns. Someone might show up in the count, but it doesn't mean a strong attachment.
Yes, the public internet is very close to nil outside the big countries, it's very noticeable nowadays doing verbatim searches on google for the last X time period, and setting the location to some random country.