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So, because Q1 guidance is a meager 3-10% revenue increase YoY and RoW active users took one (and first) small step back it is failing?

Facebook's core product has almost 3 billion monthly active users, that is not "failing" by any logical definition.

With some 400 million fake Facebook users deleted … monthly.

That's exactly it though. You can't expect core Facebook to stop failing by throwing 70k employees at the problem.

My feed is full of former groups being overrun with blogspam. I've noticed it spiking in the last 3-6 months. That type of thing needs armies of people, and... well, facebook doesn't care.

Like the pre-google (well, and google search as of now) search engines, being overrun by spam signaled the end of the viability of the product. Either they don't have the resources to defend it, or they don't care. Reason doesn't matter.