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

Post by axaxs » Wed, Mar 06, 2019, 11:56 PM UTC

atwebb wrote: post #84

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…

Nextdoor really needs to get it's act together on siloing neighborhood discussions, it's basically built for this.

Post by forgotmysn » Wed, Mar 06, 2019, 11:56 PM UTC

_red wrote: post #17

forgotmysn wrote: post #2

that sounds like a drop in the ocean that is fb's massive and growing userbase

You may be an older person, but for anyone with teens an interesting aspect is that they hardly use it. FB is turning into a "how to talk to grandma" network.

Post by russh » Wed, Mar 06, 2019, 11:59 PM UTC

time0ut wrote: post #43

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…

I deleted my account years ago, but ended up creating a fake account under a fictitious identity for the odd event organized through Facebook. I log in every so often just to see what's up. It appears to be a mixture of paid content and two random friends posting memes. I have to think people are deriving some value from it, but I cannot imagine what it is.

Post by cm2012 » Thu, Mar 07, 2019, 12:01 AM UTC

throwawaymath wrote: post #87

AnimalMuppet wrote: post #67

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> I would gladly pay $5-$10 a month for something that didn't sell my data. Hmm. Facebook has something like 2 billion profiles. Of course, most of them wouldn't pay $5/month - say that only one percent would. 20 million profiles times $5/month = $100 million/month. It might be worth it for someone to try to build such a thing...

I’d be beyond shocked if even one percent of all Facebook users would pay $5/month for it. I think the only population of users who’d consider doing so are the intersection of those who are affluent (by Western standards), are extremely opposed to Facebook ads, and use it enough to consider paying for it. I’d be surprised if you could get 1% of the US population of users to consider it, let alone the global populatio…

Post by ashelmire » Thu, Mar 07, 2019, 12:04 AM UTC

smokeyj wrote: post #125

ashelmire wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.