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

Post by inventtheday » Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 9:40 PM UTC

duxup wrote: post #320

jwally wrote: post #298

Note I wrote my father in law when he had gone too far down the rabbit hole and legitimately worried about the poison it spreads around his demographic: I left Facebook when I read some press release about it being designed from the outset to make you feel bad because it keeps you engaged; hoping someone agrees with something you liked or shared and the dopamine hit it releases. I don’t like feeling manipulated and m…

I don't even know what Twitter is for except mutual high fives over the most superficial "look at me" memeish stuff. It's worse than facebook as far as the "get attention" vibe. Granted all social media is about getting attention, and I don't think there is anything wrong with it necessarily. Attention is nice, there is good reason for it, but when the message is so tailored to just that and there isn't anything else…

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 9:46 PM UTC

samstave wrote: post #289

The biggest failure in FB afaiac, is the complete package of utility to truly connect people with tools. For example, they could have created workspaces for people to create teams and collaborate and build things, manage communities and projects have real facility to build create and run organizations with Facebook being the profile glue and communications channel. They have had less-than-mediocre efforts on all of t…

Post by lambda_lover » Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 9:46 PM UTC

appleiigs wrote: post #271

TuringNYC wrote: post #83

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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.

Post by sixothree » Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 9:50 PM UTC

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…

Post by Yhippa » Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 9:53 PM UTC

ajkjk wrote: post #334

Yhippa wrote: post #283

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https://www.facebook.com/local/ I believe you still need a FB account.

Definitely not interested. I want something that provides a service for money and won't about-face to trying to milk me for growth, ad revenue, and commodified personal data.