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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

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Post by celkam »

gibsonf1 wrote: post #140
burtonator wrote: post #136

What we need are VIABLE solutions to social platforms... While people are deleting Facebook they're NOT deleting Instagram. Additionally, we're still vulnerable to a lot of the same attacks that impacted us in the 2016 election. These networks still hold your private connection graph, know what you're reading, can target you precisely with ads, etc. I'm building an app named Polar which is an offline-first document m…

You could make your app Solid compliant - I would love a good social network UI on top of Solid, especially if it could import all the FB data into your Solid repository. https://solid.mit.edu/

I've been thinking about this a bit, and my main concern about SOLID powering a social network is that it would thrash Pods from users with thousands of friends requesting thousands of documents on the same pod every x seconds, which might work for commercial servers but end up being a DDOS on smaller Pods.

I guess I'm worried about the power need to do this at scale, and that we'll end up with something analogous to bitcoin mining pools where there's few practical options for the average user.

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

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Post by TangoTrotFox »

I have difficulty reconciling news like this against Facebook's stock price. Yes, they're growing in the rest of the world still, but America has the number one large scale source of highly monetizable advertising targets. The survey was carried out on the 5th of September when Facebook was at $167, it's now at $141 and that's with an avalanche of other recent issues to pile onto this.

Was this already somehow priced in, or what?

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

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Post by david-s »

Yizahi wrote: post #123
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #42

I did this. In the following sequence, over a few years, and am now to step 5: 1. Turn off notifications for the Facebook app on your phone; 2. Turn off notifications for the Facebook Messenger, Instagram, et cetera apps on your phone; 3. Delete the Facebook app from your phone; 4. Delete the Facebook Messenger, Instagram, et cetera apps from your phone; and finally 5. Log out of Facebook on your desktop. It took me…

Great, now you have one less company selling your data out of thousands. And remember that FB will still retain your profile forever and continue build on it via shadow profile - from everyone you know, and probably from bartering data with other companies you still use. From Google/Apple powering your OS, from Cell operator collecting info with baseband chip, thousands of them. I'm not saying FB is good, I just say…

The goal of parent's disengagement doesn't seem to have been privacy but rather sanity and productivity.

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

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Post by enjo »

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,…

There are definitely some set of users that have dropped the app for technical reasons, but are still active Facebook users.

I've uninstalled the app, but that's because it was a huge battery drain.

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Post by nabla9 »

roywiggins wrote: post #91
adtac wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wouldn't that be a case of abusing their market position to anti-competitively protect their market share? The same thing Microsoft was sued for?

It's completely legal to be a monopoly by buying every competitor out fair and square.

This is incorrect.

Facebook already needs a permissions from multiple regulators if it attempts to buy competitor – not just from US regulators.

WhatsApp and Instagram acquisitions needed approvals from EU before they could continue.

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

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Post by tlow »

Are social networks inherently evil?

Is it possible some sort of B-Corp or Foundation could run an ethical social networking product that put respecting and serving its users as a first principle?

Could an offering out-compete today's products and gain significant user-ship?

Is a post-Facebook world better?

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

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Post by user5994461 »

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.

>>> For example most travel site you probably use are owned by priceline.

Actually, most travel sites you use are probably owned by Expedia, then priceline.

Together, they own every single major web sites about travel.

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