U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison Research says • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by gpderetta » Thu, Mar 07, 2019, 9:25 AM UTC

whouweling wrote: post #394

thatoneuser wrote: post #345

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Dear God I installed LinkedIn a couple months back and their endless bs notifications made me realize that I don't need it. It doesn't give me anything. Why is it sending me 2-3 notifications a day when I have 5 friends who's profiles arent even actively used? If it did something useful, like find me clients for the work I do then sure - I'll give them my attention. He'll, I'll pay good money for that! But I don't gi…

I also do not understand the Linked-in notifications at all. They send an e-mail like '5 job changes' which I actually find interesting to learn about. But when I click any of the links this information is nowhere to be found. So after a while I don't click on the links anymore and my engagement goes down. Seems like a lot of the decisions are focused based on quick-wins engagement instead of an long lasting useful e…

For me the worst part about LinkedIn is the aggressive redirect to appstore on mobile when clicking on mail links. This is borderline malware behaviour.

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

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Post by Tepix » Thu, Mar 07, 2019, 9:26 AM UTC

aussieguy1234 wrote: post #411

Looks like I'm launching Libr ( https://librapp.com ) at the right time. I started it because of Tumblrs new censorship policies, but it looks like there's a good opportunity to set it apart from Facebook and Twitter and their ML powered unethical tracking

You don't have a privacy policy yet you are asking people for their data.

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

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Post by lostlogin » Thu, Mar 07, 2019, 9:27 AM UTC

martin_a wrote: post #404

Slartie wrote: post #388

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Even more annoying is the same thing that they do with email notifications. They seem to keep inventing new "categories" of notifications all the time that I haven't yet opted out of - basically because I seem to be only able to opt out of just that specific category that they just sent me an email about, when I click on the "don't want to receive any more of these mails" link below the message. And every time, they…

I have a seperate facebook@ mail address and I simply never check it. Did so before switching hosters last year and saw that about 8k mails had piled up since 2011. Crazy folks.

I wonder if you can still post to Facebook by email. Having this automatically loop would make me happy.

I don’t have an account so can’t check and the instructions for doing it all seem dated.

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

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Post by throwmeback » Thu, Mar 07, 2019, 9:29 AM UTC

zamalek wrote: post #351

HenryKissinger wrote: post #339

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(cries in Samsung)

Disable it in app settings, that effectively uninstalls it.

I used this method on my friends'/family phones where I can't just flash an AOSP-based ROM. That will change now that I found out about debloating through ADB.

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

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Post by kreetx » Thu, Mar 07, 2019, 9:30 AM UTC

j1elo wrote: post #403

peteretep wrote: post #334

By far the biggest factor that had me stopping checking Facebook, and indeed LinkedIn, is number of utterly fictitious notifications they generate. There was a time a few years back when that red dot made me drop everything to check FB, but these days it’ll be some completely bullshit message they’ve made a notification out of. Feels like they got greedy for my attention and killed the golden goose there. I check it…

I started like you, last year... then a couple days ago realized I hadn't checked it since mid January. And we're on March, that's a new record. I'm not in the "I'm leaving Facebook once and for all", actually I don't have that intention whatsoever, I am (was) a normal, active user. But it stopped being interesting. The kind of interaction Fb promotes is similar to twitter; in the first years I could see my friends s…

mbasic is a life saver: chat, plus fast load times!

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

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Post by hesk » Thu, Mar 07, 2019, 9:32 AM UTC

rconti wrote: post #99

kristopolous wrote: post #58

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Just like with twitter, it all depends on who you follow; Some content is dramatically better than others. And just like with twitter, most of the content is essentially garbage.

Agreed. And I think this is one reason I love FB and can't stand Twitter. I kept buying into the "follow important people on Twitter" and it's just crap. I don't care what a noted Icelandic volcanologist retweeted about canaries. I don't care what my favorite F1 driver retweeted about english football. I don't care. I don't follow "influencers" because I don't care what they think, but I thought at least getting thin…

You can turn retweets off for the people you follow. I follow maybe 100 people who post regularly but only allow retweets from a handful of them. Since I've done so, the quality of my feed has improved dramatically. Usually, when I follow a new person I leave retweets on initially but turn them off after two or three retweets because I'm only interested in what they say originally.

Incidentally, the iOS Twitter client also shows tweets in your feed which your followers liked. And you can't turn that off. I don't understand that feature at all and it made me switch to a third-party client.

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

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Post by anonytrary » Thu, Mar 07, 2019, 9:39 AM UTC

There are way too many articles about Facebook that are simply:

  1. Title implies Facebook is going down.
  2. Body clarifies that everyone is just using Instagram

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

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Post by jeffhuys » Thu, Mar 07, 2019, 9:40 AM UTC

throwmeback wrote: post #416

Slartie wrote: post #388

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Even more annoying is the same thing that they do with email notifications. They seem to keep inventing new "categories" of notifications all the time that I haven't yet opted out of - basically because I seem to be only able to opt out of just that specific category that they just sent me an email about, when I click on the "don't want to receive any more of these mails" link below the message. And every time, they…

I opted out of all emails altogether - I only check my notifications once in a while. I've never missed anything of value.

Then why do you still check it?

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Post by dao- » Thu, Mar 07, 2019, 9:40 AM UTC

908087 wrote: post #248

russh wrote: post #175

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This is what I've done as well. Fake name, profile, wildly random answers to profile questions and thumbs up to anything if I remember of have times. I only use the account to follow a couple of local businesses. Facebook is welcome to all the income that account provides them.

If you linked it to your real phone number or any of your real friends who have you in their contacts (which they've most likely shared with Facebook), you're not fooling FB.

They would still be fooling FB and its clients (advertisers) with the garbage metadata.

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

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Post by simonh » Thu, Mar 07, 2019, 9:41 AM UTC

peteretep wrote: post #334

By far the biggest factor that had me stopping checking Facebook, and indeed LinkedIn, is number of utterly fictitious notifications they generate. There was a time a few years back when that red dot made me drop everything to check FB, but these days it’ll be some completely bullshit message they’ve made a notification out of. Feels like they got greedy for my attention and killed the golden goose there. I check it…

It looks like facebook is engaged in a race to the bottom, against it’s own metrics. The easiest way to be engaged is to repost memes and fake news shock posts, so the most engaged users are meme posters and fake news trolls, so features that cater to meme posting and trolling get the most bang for buck, so they’re getting trapped in a cycle of circulating ever increasing torrents of drivel.

My girls are 14 and 15 in the UK. None of their friends use facebook, and that’s not just their social circle. Facebook is just not a thing for them. The only reason they use it at all is because there is one out of school club that posts their upcoming activities on a FB page, so they literally log in once a week to check that page and they’re done. They do heavily use Instagram and WhatsApp though, so they’re not entirely out of the FB sphere.