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  1. 5 minutes ago, futureman said:

    what’s it like tugging around all that guilt?  must be exhausting. 

    Man, someone really screwed you up when young that you have no empathy huh. 

    Divorced parents at a young age? Mom did't hug you enough? 

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  2. In light of the missionary that was killed by the islanders of Andaman and Nicobar islands I just thought I'd share this documentary of brazen mistreatment of the natives by the US and the British towards the natives of Diego Garcia. What's amazing is a lot of this occurred in the later half of the last century. Shows how we can be a beacon of hope(in the WWII) as well as monsters who do exactly the opposite.

     

     

     

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  3. 4 hours ago, Aqua Buddha said:

    P&G cut their online ad spending by $200M and it didn't impact sales at all.  Unilever did something similar.

     

    After publicly pressuring major technology platforms to help clean up the online ad market and fork over more information about the effectiveness of digital ads, Procter & Gamble Co. slashed its spending on digital advertising by more than $200 million last year.

    The consumer products giant says that its push for more transparency over the past year revealed such spending had been largely wasteful and that eliminating it helped the company reach more consumers in more effective ways.

     

    P&G , whose brands include Crest, Tide and Pampers, says it cut its digital ad budget by more than $100 million from July through December. Those reductions were on top of the more than $100 million in digital marketing spending the company had already cut in the June quarter, which P&G said had little impact on the business.

    The ad dollars were pulled back from a long list of digital channels but also included reducing spending with “several big digital players” by 20% to 50% last year, according to Marc Pritchard, P&G’s chief brand officer. He has been leading the charge among marketers as a vocal critic of digital advertising clutter, ad fraud and brand safety issues on platforms like YouTube.

    Once armed with more measurement data, P&G discovered that the average view time for a mobile ad appearing in a news feed, on platforms such as Facebook , was only 1.7 seconds. The Cincinnati-based company also realized some people were seeing P&G ads far too many times.

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/p-g-slashed-digital-ad-spending-by-another-100-million-1519915621

    P&G did this in 2017, FB revenues in 2017: 40 billion

    FB revenues in 2018: 55 billion. 

    Tell me again how this impacted them?

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  4. 1 hour ago, Blotto said:

    Sure. But at the time, those companies I named were the success stories of their time. Cocaine->crack->meth->etc... people need a distraction, they don't always gravitate to the same distraction. Facebook being the dominant social media platform in 5-10 years is not a wager I would make.

    But none of those had revenues of even 10 billion even at their height of success. FB does more than that every quarter, on track to do 55 billion in 2018. Cash warchest of $41 billion with ZERO debt. They keep crushing any new competition that pops up. Just ask Snapchat, their valuation went from $25 billion to 8 in less than a year. FB tried to buy them, they declined so Zuck just copied what they have on Insta and now Snap is losing users(down to 180 million) while Insta is gaining them(500 million). So you can wager whatever you want, its your money but I'd advise waging it against FB. They will buy the new competition, if they decline, he'll just copy it. And given the new regulations that are to descend upon them via congress its going to make it even more difficult for any new competition. FB will just track along and make them even more entrenched given their ridiculous revenues and margins.

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  5. 5 hours ago, Blotto said:

    Yeah 30%  growth seems ridiculously optimistic. FB is starting to develop quite a stench. Yahoo, Myspace, AOL all looked great....until they didnt. 

    Because you could combine Yahoo, Myspace, AOL and multiply them by ten and they still did not have the monthly average users that FB currently enjoys. Neither did they have the average time spent that was close to what we spend on FB these days. Also the quality of crowd sourced and updated data that FB has about their users is way more useful to advertisers than what we had on Myspace or any other apps you mentioned. 

    FB(FB, Instagram and Whatsapp) is so entrenched into our lives that we are more worried about it being addictive like cigarettes than it fading away at this point. 

     

    As a sidenote, I'm not on FB or Instagram. 

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  6. 16 hours ago, Aqua Buddha said:

    What makes you think they're going to grow?  Users are way down even when including Instagram.  No one trusts Facebook anymore and more of their users are the olds, who are undesirable when it comes to advertisers, who are starting to realize that social media advertising doesn't do anything.

    Facebook might not exist in five years and I'm being dead serious.

    Users are flat to minimal growth in NA and Europe. They are growing tremendously in Asia and rest of the world in terms of MAU and DAUs. Their revenues are on track to grow 30% YOY thats a drop from 40% YOY this year.

    Advertisers aren't backing off because they are still the only choice other than google that can geolock their target market. FB has older people but the ONLY social media that matters which is Instagram has 500 million+ users that are young. 

    And I'm not sure why you say that social media advertising doesn't do anything because there is enough data out there that says exactly the opposite. 

    They haven't even fully monetized Instagram, FB messenger and Whatsapp. 

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  7. 3 minutes ago, jinx said:

    Charleston Southern bro.  They are tough.  It does piss me off that they schedule 3 guaranteed wins every year and get away with it.  Sub Maryland for CHSO and we are 9-2 and in the playoff conversation.  

    And the fact that UF was ranked above Texas, when both had the same record and Florida got their ass kicked at home by fucking Mizzou, while we lost a one point heartbreaker to WVU, is all I need to know to confirm that this sham is as fake as WWE.  

    3? I see 5 guaranteed wins in the schedule I just laid out. 

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  8. 3 hours ago, NowThis said:

    AMZN hit a bloody low 1420 but bounced back +100 to about 1523, up for the day!  I think Tech is just about at the bottom now, tomorrow should be a slow down day but IMO up starting in December. 

    I hope you're right, I've been waiting for that rally. FB hit 127, that's under 17 PE. Fuck that's cheap for a company that's going to grow 30% YOY in revenues.

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