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Bit late Facebook. Most people have mostly given up on Facebook now.
1.4 billion daily active users. Your use of the phrase "most people" is not in line with reality.
Facebook became dominant because it had an aura of exclusivity and successfully captured some trend-setting demographics. If it loses those, no amount of users accessing it through Free Basics is going to make up for it.
They obviously have metrics that long time users like myself are quitting and opting out and are getting scared. Their own employees probably hate the feed and the product, and I can't see how they couldn't. Everyone in that office probably feels shitty and raged up all day.
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Are you sure? I have “show best tweets first” turned off and my tweets are not in chronological order after signing in to check right now.
From time to time, it shows 5 random older tweets on top. But everything else is in chronological order.
I’m assuming it’s different for you because you check Twitter often? In either case the feed is most definitely not in chronological order, but determined by an opaque, secret algorithm.
Never forget that Facebook has "tweaked" its newsfeed to specifically make hundreds of thousands of people feel sad and depressed for days or months, just to see if they could. And then they bragged about how great they are in a published paper that violated all ethics and morals worldwide. Why will I see less video, and more from friends? Because I won't be on facebook. Edit: From FTA: > But the other is a lot of th…
"Contagious" by Jonah Berger talks about how anger and anxiety makes people share memes. I find that Facebook and the organizations that use it are NOT interested in my mental health. They're interested in triggering my sharing response. I quit FB and my mental health improved. I don't mind using Goodreads because Amazon and I have the same goal: they want me to buy and read books, and guess what? So do I.
They obviously have metrics that long time users like myself are quitting and opting out and are getting scared. Their own employees probably hate the feed and the product, and I can't see how they couldn't. Everyone in that office probably feels shitty and raged up all day.
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1.4 billion daily active users. Your use of the phrase "most people" is not in line with reality.
DAUs? Really? Do you have a citation for that figure?