Path is shutting down

I thought it was a neat idea: they angled to be like FB but for your small group of actual, real life friends. However, it seemed like you could get most of the same benefit from signing up for FB and just not adding many people.<p>I just signed into Path to download my stuff and saw that the last post from a friend was 4 years ago. Good idea or not, it seems like everyone had forgotten that it existed.

Any idea how many users they had? I wonder if failure is due to execution&#x2F;marketing or because, like everyone says, it&#x27;s impossible to take on Facebook&#x27;s network effect. Although, you&#x27;d think that last year would be the chance to get any sort of relative leg up on FB.