All these metrics are very short-term and the user dissatisfaction builds up over time. It makes sense for everyone involved (the short term is all that counts for investors and CEOs), but I personally can't wait to see Facebook eat itself.
This is not entirely correct for French. Though there is an Académie Française in France, it doesn't directly dictate rules to other French-speaking nations and cultures.
This is because France doesn't contain the majority of French speakers in the world, and even if it did there doesn't seem to be an incentive to follow any rules they may publish.
Source: I live in Québec, we don't defer to the Académie.
For one thing, it's still an intrusive method which requires brain surgery. I expected something like radioactive isotopes but no, this is easily summed up as "better electrodes". As good thing for sure, not a game changer.
For another, the writer is a tech journalist and therefore more than likely wrong or inaccurate on important facts.
No wonder science journalism has a hard time keeping to the facts, even with direct access to the paper we're upvoting and misunderstanding a paper of trivial significance...
Depends which users. A lot of teenagers are "mostly on Instagram" or "only use it for Messenger". And teenagers are apparently an important population to marketers.
I know FB owns Instagram but the point is, Facebook as a platform may be past its prime in NA.