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Users Abandon Facebook After Cambridge Analytica Findings

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Re: Users Abandon Facebook After Cambridge Analytica Findings

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Post by rsp1984 »

cyberferret wrote: post #13

The question is - will this be just a minor blip to Facebook and then normal services will resume after the indignation wears off? Or will it the beginning of the end of the social media dominance of the platform? For me personally, I use FB primarily to keep in touch with friends, family and old colleagues who are spread all over the world. It is purely a contact tool, and not really used to market products of servi…

By bets are on minor blip. Every large company is going through a shitstorm every once in a while. Now it's FB's turn. The media loves this and pushes the matter as much as possible as it translates directly into clicks (and therefore revenue).

Remember the outrage about Apple slowing down iPhones and iPads? Or the outrage about Apple's and Google's tax avoidance schemes?

My bet is nobody's going to talk about this incident 6 months from now and FB's stock price will have more than recovered.

Re: Users Abandon Facebook After Cambridge Analytica Findings

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Post by dalore »

lettergram wrote: post #98
d--b wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hope I'm wrong but I think this in no way bringing facebook down. Keeping in touch with friends & family is too important to ditch entirely, and having everyone switch to a different platform is very hard. That said, my whole extended family uses whats app nowadays...

I mean, I just went and installed signal on my whole families phones one druken evening (I have 7 sets of aunt's and uncle's, no small feat). Now we communicate all through signal and they didn't even realize it helped them lol Then all the sudden a week or so ago they freaked out and I was like - no worries, remember that one time I switched your text messages? My family primarily communicates in texts, phone calls,…

Easy if you have physical access to your families devices. But if you're on the other side of the world, bit hard to convince grandma.

Re: Users Abandon Facebook After Cambridge Analytica Findings

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Post by test1235 »

rsp1984 wrote: post #231
cyberferret wrote: post #13

The question is - will this be just a minor blip to Facebook and then normal services will resume after the indignation wears off? Or will it the beginning of the end of the social media dominance of the platform? For me personally, I use FB primarily to keep in touch with friends, family and old colleagues who are spread all over the world. It is purely a contact tool, and not really used to market products of servi…

By bets are on minor blip. Every large company is going through a shitstorm every once in a while. Now it's FB's turn. The media loves this and pushes the matter as much as possible as it translates directly into clicks (and therefore revenue). Remember the outrage about Apple slowing down iPhones and iPads? Or the outrage about Apple's and Google's tax avoidance schemes? My bet is nobody's going to talk about this i…

The outrage about Just Eat shifting fees onto their customers ... but a distant memory, and this was like, a month ago or something.

Re: Users Abandon Facebook After Cambridge Analytica Findings

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Post by indigochill »

cyberferret wrote: post #13

The question is - will this be just a minor blip to Facebook and then normal services will resume after the indignation wears off? Or will it the beginning of the end of the social media dominance of the platform? For me personally, I use FB primarily to keep in touch with friends, family and old colleagues who are spread all over the world. It is purely a contact tool, and not really used to market products of servi…

Minor blip for sure. There's a media frenzy, but I only personally know two people who are even talking about it, and even they're not totally sold on jumping ship just yet. They've also known better than to post personal information on there (and I've posted bogus personal information just to mess with FB, which I heartily recommend to everyone. False information is better for your privacy than no information).

Re: Users Abandon Facebook After Cambridge Analytica Findings

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Post by dibstern »

fwgwgwgch wrote: post #105
tuna-piano wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Absolutely correct. I've met people in Asia (Myanmar and Nepal) who have just accessed the internet for the first time in the past 12-24 months (through their Android smartphones). But they don't know the true internet - they only know the internet through the Facebook app. They use it like we use Google and web browsers. To them, Facebook is the internet. They don't have email accounts. They don't use the browser. T…

> buzz feed Since you are as surprised as I was a month back, I've looked further and concluded that buzz feed actually funds very high quality journalism (yes yes shocking I know) and presents facts from both sides. They do it using the money generated from click baits. I'd even make what will sound like a hyperbole , if you are the sort that wants truth on both sides of political spectrum and not just an echo chamb…

https://youtu.be/T77frLL_bsg

They’re not just click bait, they do create incredibly biased content.

Re: Users Abandon Facebook After Cambridge Analytica Findings

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Post by gkya »

kibwen wrote: post #57
netsharc wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A year or so ago I noticed I would wake up and the first thing I did was load up Facebook in my phone. I deleted the app, and what do I do? i still open it on my phone's browser. So I changed my password to 32 characters generated by Keepass, and make sure I logged out of it on my phone. I'm still logged in on the desktop, but nowadays it's pretty quiet anyway. Thr last few days I've been using a Chrome extension (1)…

Similar story here: a while back I installed a browser extension to delay the loading of unproductive sites that I was habitually visiting just to distract myself from tasks, imposing a 30 second wait barrier. What it's revealed is that there are some sites that I'm very willing to wait 30 seconds to visit (e.g. if there's a certain song on YouTube that I want to play in the background), but not once have I ever both…

Similarly, I moved all my reddit subs to multis, so my homepage there is empty. In the last months the time I spent there has dropped to less than single-digit percentages of how much I spent in the past.

Re: Users Abandon Facebook After Cambridge Analytica Findings

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Post by shoover »

lettergram wrote: post #98
d--b wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hope I'm wrong but I think this in no way bringing facebook down. Keeping in touch with friends & family is too important to ditch entirely, and having everyone switch to a different platform is very hard. That said, my whole extended family uses whats app nowadays...

I mean, I just went and installed signal on my whole families phones one druken evening (I have 7 sets of aunt's and uncle's, no small feat). Now we communicate all through signal and they didn't even realize it helped them lol Then all the sudden a week or so ago they freaked out and I was like - no worries, remember that one time I switched your text messages? My family primarily communicates in texts, phone calls,…

That’s a good coup. Did it bleed into your family’s other circles outside the family at all?
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