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philwelch on Nov 10, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Teenagers say goodbye to Facebook and hello to mes...

This sounds just like when I was a teenager, and everyone used AIM and ICQ.

phea on Nov 10, 2013 [–]

I think the takeaway from ICQ, AIM, MSN Messenger, Friendster, MySpace, etc is that as soon as you start losing users, then it's over and there's no winning users back. No matter how ubiquitous the service becomes in one's daily life.

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