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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 moate »

cft wrote: post #65
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.

But they are running out of potential sites to buy. I wonder if they have offered to buy Reddit?

Of course they have. Why wouldn't they? They probably just didn't offer enough billions.

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

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Post by oe »

bracobama wrote: post #149
alex_duf wrote: post #27

Deleted the app last year, then last September asked for all my data, then closed my account. Long gone was the interesting content in my feed, I only had indoctrinated contacts posting either poor quality content or misinformation. I think facebook lost me when they stopped the chronological feed, which is also why I closed my Instagram account.

Wait what... Instagram's feed isn't chronological?

They added a indicator "You’re All Caught Up" when you've seen all new posts on the feed. Of course there can be some posts below the indicator that you haven't seen.

Now also Strava is making their feed sorted by some magic with no option to make it chronological :( I can't quite understand this trend.

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

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Post by stokednz »

IronWolve wrote: post #159

I stopped playing facebook games when they tried to get me to log in every hour, to water or take care of someone's farm. Sorry, I dont need another Job... Then the client started spying on me, so I switched to the web mobile version. Then they removed chat from that. Oh well, I can text people instead. I'm not playing their game, behaving like they want me too, they want mindless drones, f' them. I'm very close to d…

I use the DuckDuckGo browser for Facebook messaging on the mobile site.

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

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Post by dvtrn »

tomphoolery wrote: post #141
phreeza wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

You can indeed! You can even reactivate your account _only_ for messenger. I kinda wish you could do that for events...

Better yet I wish Events were integrated into messenger, but part of me thinks Facebook knows it that a substantial portion of users would probably stick to messenger and never visit the news feed ever again because that's the only thing many of us care about.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

rootusrootus wrote: post #126
bdamm wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's nice that phone numbers are so stable these days.

I wonder how long that will continue. I get so many spam calls every day (about a dozen now) that I am looking towards a future where I don't have a POTS number.

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

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Post by taurath »

DoreenMichele wrote: post #134
buboard wrote: post #41

Why is HN so eager to document the downfall of facebook? First, realize that for a large part of its demographics, facebook is the internet , and when they quit they 'll leave the internet altogether (provided that there 's not another new platform that absorbs them). Second, other social media are having far bigger leakages (snapchat) but that doesn't seem to concern anyone.

I mostly don't read these articles, but some random observations: Facebook never clicked for me. I deleted it, went back, still couldn't make it work, deleted it again, started a new account and was banned. Whatevs. It seems to not click for a lot of folks inclined to hang in spaces like HN. Some folks who never really got it and perhaps felt left out that "everyone else was on it" may take glee in watching it fall a…

For the developing countries I know about (SE Asia in particular) it’s definitely still very much in the positive range - it’s adding real value. The downside has yet to hit I think.

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

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Post by lostgame »

tlow wrote: post #169

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?

>> Is a post-Facebook world better?

Only when the alternative follows some of the principles you stated.

Edit: Oh, also, if it means we see less zombie-scrolling.

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

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Post by johannes1234321 »

kozak wrote: post #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.

It is a relevant metric since it reduces notifications being sent to you and reduces the information Facebook can gather (no tracking of what else is going on on the hone etc.)

It also tells them that the App apparently dosn't give value to users and something has to change on their side (whatever "something" might be, might be reputation or features or overall experience or ...)

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