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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 rhodysurf »

irrational wrote: post #224

I 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…

I’m in my twenties and that’s how my close friends and I use them... just fluidly communicate through all of them

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

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Post by nothis »

Steeeve wrote: post #423

That's a big misleading headline. 26% of 3400 respondents to a survey in May had deleted the app from their phones at some point in the preceding year.

I don't think it is, read closer. They're referencing this survey: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/09/05/americans-ar...

The 26% number is adults, total. The 44% number is people 18-29.

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Post by jboles »

Animats wrote: post #185

Wow, that's tough for Facebook. But Facebook did it to themselves. I just opened up Facebook on desktop. Above the fold, I have "People you may know" whom I've never heard of. Nothing above the fold is very relevant. Some of my horse-owning friends have posted some things, but I have to dig to find them. Two years ago, I was shown what my friends were doing. Now Facebook puts all the crap up top. Facebook's ideas of…

By putting the crap up top they're inducing you to start that downward scroll...

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

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Post by strifey »

mpg33 wrote: post #272
strifey wrote: post #72

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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?

My guess is if you reactivate and immediately deactivate, it should do what you want. I don't know what else that triggers, though.

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

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Post by felipemnoa »

cm2012 wrote: post #85

That's why Facebook's quarterly number of daily users has dropped precipitously from 181 million daily users to ... 181 million daily users. Facebook's daily user numbers havn't dropped at all. So either they're moving to IG, or people say a lot of things in surveys. EDIT: Meant to specify, the numbers in this comment are US only.

>>181 million daily users to ... 181 million daily users.

My feeling is that if(or when) things go bad for facebook it will happen rather precipitously. Like a bubble popping. i.e. Like the real estate implosion of 2008.

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Post by EvilMonkeyMat »

spiritcat wrote: post #406
EvilMonkeyMat wrote: post #362

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Wow. Thanks for the way you put this out. This is exactly how I was feeling / what I was experiencing. So I went ahead, and installed my own MatterMost instance with friends. What I realized recently is that Facebook is built in a way that makes it really hard to have a real conversation. People only share links and shout their opinions with no real place for exchange.

Turns out people don't always wan't their conversations shared with [ramifications of current privacy settings unknown, assumed to be everyone]

I understand that. My Facebook profile is mostly empty to an outsider, and even to many of my so-called friends. Hehe!

I said that because the more I think about it, the more I find social media platforms don't really help me stay in touch with anyone. I mean, yeah, I can see they got a third kid or that hunting season was great this year, but nothing near a real conversation around a coffee or a beer.

That's why I started using MatterMost ,an open source Slack clone, or like I tell my less tech-savvy friends: IRC on steroids. (IRC was the go to choice when we were teens)

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Post by glass_of_water »

jayalpha wrote: post #421
scarecrowbob wrote: post #107

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I wrote a script: # ~/unfuckfacbook.sh #!/bin/bash sed -i '' s/'^127.0.0.1 facebook.com'/'#127.0.0.1 facebook.com'/ /etc/hosts sed -i '' s/'^127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com'/'#127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com'/ /etc/hosts sed -i '' s/'^127.0.0.1 m.facebook.com'/'#127.0.0.1 m.facebook.com'/ /etc/hosts sleep 30 say "Hey asshole, get off Facebook" sleep 30 ~/fuckfacbook.sh ~/fuckfacbook.sh just undoes the hosts file work It helppe…

How does this work? I get an error? sed: can't read s/^127.0.0.1 f....

If you're using macOS, you'll need to do sed -i "" ... (put an empty string argument after the -i flag). If the second to last argument on the command line is -i, I think on the version of sed that ships with most distros, sed assumes that the argument to -i is the empty string and that the last argument in the command is the pattern. The version that ships with macOS, on the other hand, always treats the argument after -i as the extension to use for the backup file.

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Post by hndamien »

kashprime wrote: post #363
duxup wrote: post #320

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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…

Medical twitter is fairly positive and a great way to learn about new papers and interact with educators and researchers. Check out the #foamed (Free Open Access Medicine) hashtag. I usually try to avoid following political people and keep my feed science-focused.

Any recommendations here?

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Post by Pxtl »

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…

Twitter is about following tiny businesses, imho. Youtubers, independent journalists, local shops, local media, local politicians. It's RSS for z-list internet famous people.

Although it pretends that replies are equivalent to top-level tweets, they're not really. It's just that there's a reply thread attach to everything.

Basically, CNN will tell you what your head of state did. Your regional media will tell you what your legislative representative did if it was newsworthy.

Twitter lets you keep tabs on your city councilman.

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