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Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook

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Re: Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook

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Post by gexla »

There could be a lot of story lines here. I go for web over apps as much as possible. Less resource hogging. More control over things like notifications.

I just don't have a burning need to check my FB notifications. But I'll still check FB a couple times a day. No need for the app, but I haven't deleted my FB account either.

I also prefer the stripped down web version which is "free" on mobile connections in places like the Philippines. No images, no video, just plain text in an ugly interface. Perfect.

Re: Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook

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Post by sparkling »

tomhoward wrote: post #6

I wonder how many people who have "deleted the app" do what my SO does and keep using it daily via their phone's web browser whilst still telling people "Yeah I've totally deleted Facebook from my phone".

I only use the mobile browser version because the app is laggy and forces you to install their shitty dedicated messenger app just to read messages.

At least thats how it was 1,5yrs ago or so, haven't tried it since then again.

Re: Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook

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Post by wousser »

No surprise. A 250MB app that needs updates every week, can’t show your friends most recent updates on a chronological timeline, doesn’t let you chat with tour friends, analyzes everything within the app including maybe facial emotions, and keeps sending useless notifications to make you open the app; no wonder people are fed up and delete it.

Re: Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook

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Post by pixl97 »

tomhoward wrote: post #6

I wonder how many people who have "deleted the app" do what my SO does and keep using it daily via their phone's web browser whilst still telling people "Yeah I've totally deleted Facebook from my phone".

Your web browser is a lot less likely to grab your recent calls and GPS location.

Re: Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook

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Post by pkilgore »

Strangely, the front page is linking a better summary than the single item view: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/05/facebook-exodus-44-percent-o...

Especially insofar as it includes this topline note:

> The survey does not measure usage of Facebook's Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger, all of which remain popular overseas, and does not measure Facebook's continuing growth overseas.

Re: Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook

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Post by josefresco »

"The new survey finds that around one-in-ten Facebook users (9%) have downloaded the personal data about them available on Facebook. But despite their relatively small size as a share of the Facebook population, these users are highly privacy-conscious."

9% of a huge number is... a huge number.

Re: Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook

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Post by snarfy »

I was noticing this morning that their "I don't want to see this" feature seems to be stored client side. For a second while the page is loading I'll see an article that immediately poofs away because the client side js reads the setting and hides the article.

Every single time this morning that I refreshed the page, I saw a few articles poof away. They really want me to see the tabloid crap I marked as don't want to see.

Re: Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook

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Post by quaristice »

snarfy wrote: post #19

I was noticing this morning that their "I don't want to see this" feature seems to be stored client side. For a second while the page is loading I'll see an article that immediately poofs away because the client side js reads the setting and hides the article. Every single time this morning that I refreshed the page, I saw a few articles poof away. They really want me to see the tabloid crap I marked as don't want to…

I often have this same experience. I find the experience of having the article "taken away" to be very irritating.
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