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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 appleiigs »

TuringNYC wrote: post #83
brobdingnagians wrote: post #12

I 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 want to check FB once a week or two to catch up on how my friends are doing, but the FB ranking also fails me. All I get is viral click-bait and none of the meaningful news of friends. One friend was sick, another launched an app... i found out about all this after. No reason to log in anymore.

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

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Post by mpg33 »

strifey wrote: post #72
phreeza wrote: post #66

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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.

I deactivated my account over 3 years ago. Would I be able to use messenger?

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

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Post by kposehn »

WoodenChair wrote: post #198
kposehn wrote: post #196

> Pew surveyed more than 3,400 U.S. Facebook users in May and June, and found that a whopping 44 percent of those ages 18 to 29 say they've deleted the app from their phone in the last year. Some of them may have reinstalled it later. Yet the total user base in the US is something over 100mm - how would you possibly consider 3,400 people be indicative of an entire demographic? Edit: Yes, I'm aware of statistics and h…

Statistically 3,400 is a large (read statistically significant) sample size. If the participants were appropriately sampled, it can be indicative of a trend.

Is that though for that large of a population? I guess I'm just skeptical of the sampling in that small of a population to establish a pretty sweeping conclusion.

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

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Post by Yhippa »

abalone wrote: post #265

I 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 tha…

There's no better feeling than getting friend suggestions from people who've flat out unfriended me.

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

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Post by cronix »

nurino wrote: post #262
cronix wrote: post #197

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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

And will then be renamed to WhatWasThatApp as everyone abandons it lol

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Post by goldfeld »

deminature wrote: post #252
clarry wrote: post #244

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It is frightening how the internet outrage culture is getting people fired and destroying their lives over some stupid tweet.

The risk/reward of posting humor on the internet nowadays is terrible. Reward is maybe a few of your friends find it funny, maybe it gets ignored. Risk is someone is offended, you lose your livelihood and become an internet pariah because someone organized an angry mob against you on some Discord. Maybe someone doxes you, finds your address and starts harassing you at your home. The internet in 2018 is kind of a terr…

Or society is just showing how barbaric it's ever been. See the elections in Brazil yesterday.

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

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Post by bogomipz »

deminature wrote: post #240
mrweasel wrote: post #93

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I believe that is how Facebook dies. Not people deleting their account, they’ll just stop checking their feed, because it’s spam and stuff friends likes or share and no longer posts about their life.

I stopped posting because of the whole thing about social media written in ink. I'm not posting something which may be held against me, or have me randomly shamed in the future because the nuance of my joke was lost in text. When I last posted in 2007, the internet seemed to be a much different, friendlier place. Facebook in 2007 was also mostly about friends, and not selling me stuff that it couldn't possibly know I…

>"I stopped posting because of the whole thing about social media written in ink."

What are you referring to here? Could you elaborate? Newspaper coverage of social media?

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