Facebook utilizes lock-in mechanisms including sunk costs (user registration, app installation, and interface familiarization) and indirect network effects, where the presence of more content producers attracts more content consumers, which in turn attracts more producers.

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  Business ecosystems as a way to activate lock-in in business models

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• Facebook entity
• indirect network effects concept
• sunk costs concept
• lock-in mechanisms concept