Social networks are battling video platforms for users’ time Quarterly loss from metaverse investment totals $3.3 billion The catalyst was startling news that for the first time ever, Facebook’s user growth seems to have hit a ceiling and its momentum is stalling. Thursday’s collapse wiped out more than $230 billion of market value in an instant -- a figure unprecedented in stock-market history -- and has investors asking a question that once seemed unthinkable: Are the best days over for Facebook, one of the world’s most widely held technology stocks?