Good thing everyone uses Instagram and WhatsApp now.
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
#262Earlier quoted context omitted.
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).
You mean to ruin a secondary platform? I've all but stopped using Instagram for the same reason I've all but stopped using FB... there are just too many ads to scroll past to see what I'm actually there to see (the people I'm friends with/following). Every other post now seems to be an ad/sponsored post. Both platforms have gone overboard to the point that I only visit maybe once/week now instead of daily. I also don…
Well, they are now on their way to also ruin WhatsApp. That could be the third platform they ruin :P
Re: Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted the app
#263There's just no way I could keep myself up to date with local events without Facebook. I live in a post-soviet country so Snapchat and Instagram are considered pretty niche here so every social event is always documented on Facebook. I also hold a monthly gamedev meetup, which would be utterly impossible without Facebook. The attendance has grown from 5 to 30 people in a few months and is now helping jump start the g…
I hear you.
Really all I want is a solid app that's only Facebook's event system and friend lists and nothing else.
But I can't see any growth-motivated company ever making that and just stopping there. I'd even pay for it, if I thought they wouldn't try to make more money after that. Maybe it would have to be a non-profit.
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That pretty much exactly describes me - I never did delete the app on my phone but I can't remember when I last opened it. I just have no interest in checking it anymore.
you should probably delete it. in case it's sending your juicy phone data back to the mother ship in the background. (it probably is).
Or even just for the battery savings
Re: Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted the app
#265I think Facebook is juicing their DAU metrics by gaming people with "friend suggestion" notifications.
My usage is way down and I barely check it, maybe once in a couple weeks, but after I check it I get a sudden uptick in notifications. Mostly "friend suggestions". There's nothing new about them. In many cases they've suggested them before. But it seems like they just want to slide into my notifications and keep that red badge lit up and just trigger me to open up the app. But not too much.. after I ignore it for awhile they die down, probably so I don't uninstall entirely. Then the cycle repeats a couple weeks later.
And I could be wrong but it looks like they removed the ability to turn off friend suggestion notifications. You can turn just about everything else off but not that one. Hmmmm...
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#266It didn't have anything useful for me. Just a bunch of people I vaguely knew complaining about things that diddn't affect me. Combined with the marketed crap, spyware, and adblocker circumvention it was actively detrimental to go there.
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#267I have teenagers and college-age kids and I'm not surprised in the least. They openly consider Facebook to be a platform for old people. They seem to have moved to more of a distributed social media system. That is, they don't seem to have a central place where they communicate with friends. They seem to move between texts, facetime, tumblr, instagram, phone calls (!), etc. in a fluid manner. Anything except for Face…
Being "brand loyal" in this regard doesn't make a lot of sense anyway. It's just a tool. You use whatever gets the job done at the moment.
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#268I realized I was checking facebook a lot each day whenever I had a spare moment, but didn't have anything really interesting happening, and I wanted to engage more with those around me and have more time for down-time thinking. So I deleted the app, knowing that making the threshold higher for checking it would reduce my usage, now I might check facebook once a month on my desktop, and still nothing happening, so it…
Slightly different scenario on my side -- I want to use it, but the timeline has gotten so limited it doesn't draw me in as much. (No, i'm not on blocked lists. But strange things happen, e.g., Facebook has decided that despite my brother and I being friends and being marked "close" and not blocking each other, we dont see many of each others' posts.) I'll confess I actually like using Facebook because it allows me t…
I've actually been seeing "No more posts" a lot recently. I scroll through two pageloads of content and then it tells me there's nothing more to display.
Facebook, I've been signed up since you first opened up to non-edu accounts.. you're telling me there's nothing at all more to display?
Re: Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted the app
#269Never had Facebook, never will. Have fun, all.
A man truly ahead of his time.
Re: Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted the app
#270Earlier quoted context omitted.
Whether or not they are actually listening to conversations, the effect is the same; ads that are way too personal. I suspect they have much more information than what we tell them, and I mean raw data, not what's derived from collaborative filtering or other techniques. I wonder if our ISPs, streaming services, banks, visa, etc, share data. Maybe it's just the trackers all over the internet. Getting ads for a specif…
> I suspect they have much more information than what we tell them, and I mean raw data, not what's derived from collaborative filtering or other techniques. I wonder if our ISPs, streaming services, banks, visa, etc, share data. Maybe it's just the trackers all over the internet. They absolutely do. You should download your FB data, if you have an account. It's basically a list of everywhere you've shopped/been/etc.…
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