Users Abandon Facebook After Cambridge Analytica Findings

Post by redcalx » Thu, Mar 22, 2018, 12:10 PM UTC

chillwaves wrote: post #67

kercker wrote: post #25

"The hashtag #DeleteFacebook appeared more than 10,000 times on Twitter within a two-hour period on Wednesday, according to the analytics service ExportTweet. On Tuesday, it was mentioned 40,398 times, according to the analytics service Digimind." Is this really such a big deal for Facebook? Suppose 50000 persons delete their Facebook everyday, then it will just lose 1,825,0000 users one year, not counting new users…

> And Facebook has 2 billion users. I simply do not believe 1/3 of the planet is on Facebook. I am not. Half of the planet does not have access to clean drinking water, I do not believe they are on Facebook either.

Post by gkya » Thu, Mar 22, 2018, 12:17 PM UTC

visarga wrote: post #140

rndmind wrote: post #74

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I am sure that MZ is the latter. F*book is a farce. You are the problem. Be the change you want to see. Reach out to people other ways for events. FFS, you are connected 24x7 to the internet, not facebook exclusively, never in the history of humanity have we had this level of instantaneous hyperconnection, that excuse is a lie.

> Reach out to people other ways for events. It's the other way around, he's being reached by other people through FB. What good would it do to make an account where his friends are not?

Post by TomMarius » Thu, Mar 22, 2018, 12:24 PM UTC

indigochill wrote: post #236

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).

Post by nathan_f77 » Thu, Mar 22, 2018, 12:28 PM UTC

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…

Post by Moodles » Thu, Mar 22, 2018, 12:34 PM UTC

InternetUser wrote: post #230

Moodles wrote: post #220

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> 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? I'd bet my house it is the former. I think on HN we understandably make assumptions about the general population due to the bubble we live in. The reactions to other privacy scandals e.g. wikileaks or Sno…

I suppose it all depends on how much user attrition you would say constitutes a "mass exodus." How many millions of former users would that be? Or what percentage from what high-point? By these following reports, there's been a mass exodus in terms of usage among the much-sought-after teenage demographic, and that's been happening from Facebook to Snapchat for at least two years now: Oct 2016: Snapchat Beats Instagra…