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U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison Research says

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Re: U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison Research says

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Post by Spooky23 »

simonsarris wrote: post #24
kojackst wrote: post #10

Note: personal opinion bellow It seems to me that the overall interest in Facebook is decreasing. The social network hasn't had any interesting feature added to it in the last couple of years. It's becoming boring and boring, so that's why I believe people are leaving. Still, Instagram and WhatsApp are running strong with barely no competition. We don't see any news about their user base decreasing and news channels…

> The social network hasn't had any interesting feature added to it in the last couple of years. I actually found some great rugs (owners did not know what they had!) and furniture on the FB marketplace. Much better finds than on craigslist, and easier to verify that the seller is a human.

Agreed.

Craigslist was tainted by the unsavory element of prostitution and stolen goods and isn’t a resource that I seek out. Facebook marketplaces seem like what eBay was in the 90s.

Re: U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison Research says

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Post by tokai »

hojjat12000 wrote: post #105

I only haven't deleted my account because of the facebook messenger and all the messages that I have there. I should find a way to back it up to a readable format and delete the thing.

You can download all your chats.

https://www.facebook.com/help/212802592074644?helpref=faq_co...

Re: U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison Research says

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Post by imgabe »

I wonder if there's a market for a paid Facebook. Charge $5 per month for a Facebook like profile. Communicate with your friends. Share photos. See updates (in chronological order!). No data mining. No advertisements. No "brands". No emotional manipulation to maximize engagement (actually, the less time you spend, the more profitable your $5 is). I'd pay for this if it existed, hopefully enough of my friends would too.

Re: U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison Research says

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Post by fullshark »

standardUser wrote: post #109

It feels like Facebook now contains all of the negative parts of social media - complaining, arguing, chain posts, fake news, relatives, etc. While Instagram now has all the pleasant parts - pretty photos of families, vacations and food! So these days I find myself using Instagram regularly and Facebook almost never. Having said that, I'll never leave Facebook until something else replaces it. It's the only place I h…

Instagram to me seems like the worst parts of social media, in that it's a vanity feeding mechanism amplified. Which in turn makes it an anxiety inducing experience if you aren't doing "cool things" that make other people jealous.

Re: U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison Research says

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Post by smokeyj »

ashelmire wrote: post #73
gwbas1c wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> For me personally, it's almost impossible to deal with. Way too many political posts from my friends and family. Bingo, that's what's doing it for me. Before the 2016 presidential election, Facebook was fun. It was also a great way to get news. But now, what I'm finding is that a lot of people on Facebook just don't know how to behave in a public forum. It makes it painful, because someone always knows someone who'…

Lots of things changed. Facebook began as an exclusive social network for upper-class students. Gradually it grew to encompass not just all of America, but the entire world. It turns out, many of us well educated people don't really want to network or socialize with poorly educated people. Police started monitoring our activities, so the events all but disappeared. The world changed, too. Facts used to matter; we rea…

What changed is FB had to make money - and they discovered "outrage" sells. That's the full answer. It has nothing to do with the lower-class crowding up your social network lol.

Re: U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison Research says

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Post by miguelmota »

Deleted facebook years ago and never regretted it. It's always the same people posting the same stuff. It's simply just boring for me because I'm not interested in personal lives of people. Twitter on the other hand is great for news updates and it's the only mainstream social network I use.

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Post by jopsen »

I'm a lot less active on Facebook, but... it's still super useful for coordination, finding people, groups.

The thing that convinces me FB isn't going away is my dad using groups to debate wood working.. he's never participated in anything online before.

Re: U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison Research says

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Post by romwell »

ryanianian wrote: post #74

I live in a somewhat large gated community that has a pretty active facebook group. The group is somewhat loosely moderated by the HOA (for better or worse) so in general people stay on-topic and neighborly. It's great for asking for recommended contractors, asking if somebody has a thing they can borrow, etc. This is one of the few things that keeps me on facebook. Of course facebook is a terrible venue for this gro…

>If there were a more prevalent network I'm sure the group would move

I'm pretty sure there is one literally Nextdoor...

Re: U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison Research says

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Post by toomanybeersies »

kojackst wrote: post #10

Note: personal opinion bellow It seems to me that the overall interest in Facebook is decreasing. The social network hasn't had any interesting feature added to it in the last couple of years. It's becoming boring and boring, so that's why I believe people are leaving. Still, Instagram and WhatsApp are running strong with barely no competition. We don't see any news about their user base decreasing and news channels…

> It's becoming boring and boring, so that's why I believe people are leaving

Email hasn't had any new features added in decades, and people still use it.

For me, Facebook is a tool. I use it to organise events and groups, and communicate with people.

There's no other tool that works as well. I can have all my messages, groups, and events in one place. Almost everyone I know uses Facebook as well, so it's centralised.

Speaking of event management, one very useful feature that Facebook has added recently is integrated payments for events. You can set up a Facebook event that has tickets, and people can purchase and pay for tickets through FB without having to go to the external ticket sales platform (moshtix, eventbrite etc.). I'm not sure if you can do ticketing directly through Facebook or if you need an external service, I haven't set up any events with tickets. Anyway, it's a very useful feature as it saves me having to sign up for different ticket platforms.

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