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Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted the app

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Post by weberc2 »

samfisher83 wrote: post #52

They are just going from FB to Instagram: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/22/teens-abandoning-facebook-st... FB can shift its model to becoming like priceline. Just try to buy up all the social networks. For example most travel site you probably use are owned by priceline. The same way Facebook could maybe buy up other social networks.

I bet the Facebook employees who pushed to buy Instagram are feeling pretty justified right about now. But still, I'm not sure if Instagram can be monetized to the same degree as Facebook was in the last decade, especially as they continue to wreck their brand with privacy abuses (note that I'm not a privacy hawk).

Re: Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted the app

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Post by strifey »

phreeza wrote: post #66
MattBearman wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is exactly how my leaving facebook started. After a few months without the app I logged out on desktop, and then it wasn't long until I deactivated my account. I'd like to delete it entirely but at the moment too many people still use messenger to contact me.

Wait, you can deactivate your account and still use messenger?

Yep. It currently explicitly states this and does it by default when you get to the final deactivation step. Previously it was an option you had to notice and click.

Re: Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted the app

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Post by stephengillie »

ddebernardy wrote: post #61
stephengillie wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This isn't about deleting your account. It's about uninstalling the app.

I'm not the OP but methinks the two are related. There was a time back in the day when FB gave me updates on what my friends were doing. And then one day - somewhere between 2008, when I stopped using it, and 2013, when I tried it again for a few months, stopped, and only came back 3 or 4 times since - it became mostly memes, cat videos, feel good stuff, what have you. I've yet to bring myself to delete the account,…

The aged anecdote doesn't cover a typical use case.

Re: Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted the app

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Post by ry_ry »

Is an interesting one, assuming they struggle to get new users on the main platform.

FB have a lot of hope riding on Marketplaces, but it's viability is entirely down to FB being so ubiquitous.

Product suggestion (graph is still their core business, obviously), and being able cross promote their products to a captive audience. They basically can't pivot because everything they want to do relies on finding ways to leverage the data they generate.

Can't figure out where they're heading in the longer term tbh. Would fully expect IG Marketplaces to follow in the next couple of years.

Re: Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted the app

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Post by prostoalex »

rigged-system wrote: post #55
wgerard wrote: post #6

Anecdotal 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.

I have seen this first hand. At one point, I think I had figured this out because I the Facebook app had access to "Siri results", and "Siri results" is just about anything you do on your phone. We turned off Siri results, but we would still be discussing something out loud like "maybe we should go to Bali some day" and lo and behold, my wife would see ads for Bali in her Facebook stream within 1-2 hours.

Did she type any related query into a search engine or browsed some related travel sites (that happened to have Facebook like buttons on them) in-between two events?

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Post by lostgame »

anderspitman wrote: post #51

It was the notifications that were the last straw for me. If I can't figure out how to 100% disable your notifications in 5 minutes, your app is gone. I'm sure it's possible but apparently as a software engineer I'm not smart enough.

iOS: Settings -> Notifications Android: Settings -> App Notifications
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