Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted the app
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Re: Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted the app
#2"Deleted app" is not necessarily a good metric, considering that I prefer to use Facebook on my mobile phone as a web page instead of the app, simply because I like it that way. It's simply a more consistent and less intrusive experience IMO. Facebook is nagging me with Facebook Lite ads because it thinks that I don't have resources on the phone to run the app, but that's not the case at all.
Re: Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted the app
#3"Deleted app" is not necessarily a good metric, considering that I prefer to use Facebook on my mobile phone as a web page instead of the app, simply because I like it that way. It's simply a more consistent and less intrusive experience IMO. Facebook is nagging me with Facebook Lite ads because it thinks that I don't have resources on the phone to run the app, but that's not the case at all.
"Deleted app within the past year", however, is probably about as good as you're going to get. And c'mon, you know as well as I do that the percentage of people who deleted the app (especially "within the last year") simply because they prefer the web version has to be single digit percentages at best. "Yeah, but, I've got special case that I'll generalize to the population..." is not a refutation.
Re: Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted the app
#4"Deleted app" is not necessarily a good metric, considering that I prefer to use Facebook on my mobile phone as a web page instead of the app, simply because I like it that way. It's simply a more consistent and less intrusive experience IMO. Facebook is nagging me with Facebook Lite ads because it thinks that I don't have resources on the phone to run the app, but that's not the case at all.
I've done the same for a couple years now but it means I don't get those instant notifications, I'm not responding to anything right away. Maybe every day or two I check it for five minutes. That's not leaving the app but it's definitely not the kind of user they're looking for
Re: Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted the app
#5I use Facebook only for its login capabilities and to occasionally send messages to people whose phone numbers I don't have. I have the app currently, but usually I delete it because its notifications are irritating. I fall into the older end of that age range.
Re: Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted the app
#6Anecdotal obviously, but I'm surprised at how pervasive the "Facebook listens to your conversations through the app" rumors are, even among the more technically literate.
I'm curious how much of an effect that rumor had on this finding.
Re: Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted the app
#7i deleted the app months ago, and have only been actually _on_ facebook once since.
I found that I didn't miss it in the least.
Re: Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted the app
#8It doesn't matter, those same users will use the mobile web version instead. More importantly, Instagram usage has gone way up in that cohort. The title is pure clickbait.
Re: Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted the app
#9Anecdotal obviously, but I'm surprised at how pervasive the "Facebook listens to your conversations through the app" rumors are, even among the more technically literate. I'm curious how much of an effect that rumor had on this finding.
no effect for me, personally. my reasons for deleting the app and halting usage of facebook was entirely based on the plethora of toxic/useless content that just made me want to punch most of my friends in the face.
Re: Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted the app
#10I still use Facebook regularly but I deleted the app and the regular Messenger app because they were using too much RAM on my phone.