I am leaving a link to what I think should now be an obligatory reference to the Facebook Free Business post by DHH every time this topic comes up:
https://m.signalvnoise.com/become-a-facebook-free-business/
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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That has resulted in me disabling notifications and now I won't know if someone @me or responded to a tweet. Those useless notifications made the whole product useless for me.
Yep, same for me. They want addicts not users.
I was never a twitter person until recently, as in the last month or so. I've had an account for years and never really used it. And wow. Going from reddit (was a huge addict) to twitter reminds me of when I went from forums to reddit/digg. I've barely used reddit in the last month. The deluge of posts at all hours is incredibly addicting. I may need to block it or scorch earth my followings.
Or make two accounts and my main one only follow positive/uplifting/motivational accounts.
Re: U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison Research says
#493By 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…
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 have made hundreds of thousands of dollars through people I have met on LinkedIn, and I continue to make money through them. In business, networking is key. It’s not going to find you clients on its own, but it definitely aids in that process if you use it to network or prospect.
Re: U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison Research says
#494The only reason I signed up for Facebook, just five years ago or less, is because someone posted a scientific paper or video there. This post wound up being not worth looking at and I didn't go to Facebook for anything until about three years ago when I went to a funeral and found some long lost relatives I hadn't seen in decades and others I never knew. "Are you on Facebook?", they asked.
So I went there and friended them. It was kind of fun or interesting for a few posts but, the only one I was most interested in talking to, I talk to on the phone or email more often than Facebook. The rest is idle chit-chat about people and things I know nothing about or care about.
So now my Facebook involvement never goes further than to visit the login page, see if I have the red notification icon that someone posted something directly to me and, if not, leave.
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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…
>Ironically I still write to share my thoughts on something, without photos or shocking videos, and it catcyes my friend's attention because of the "novelty" of writing something of my own instead of just sharing some link. People stopped making posts about their daily lives, removing the thing that attracted most of us to Facebook to begin with: The possibility of following the life of friends and family, even if we…
facebook feels more and more like traditional tv or the web portals like yahoo! or msn. we've moved on! they went backwards.
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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…
Fortunately google have helped me deal with facebook by dumping all their emails into a "social" tab which I rarely bother to look at.
Too bad Google Inbox has only a couple weeks left till it's retired. :(
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I didn't know about mbasic and chat working. Thanks. I'm also deleting as many apps as possible. Even Instagram works quite well without the app. Less uncontrollable spying, less battery usage, no annoying notifications, more free memory, more blocked ads and trackers.
But no replying on the comments to your posts, it seems, which is quite annoying.
Well, i will probably see the comment on my post after a week or two and respond then.
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But why WhatsApp is one of those 3 and Signal is ANOTHER app? Not so long ago WhatsApp was ANOTHER. Now it's not. What changed?
I don't remember WhatsApp ever being ANOTHER. It was the first cross-platform messaging app I ever used.
Wikipedia says it was released in January 2009. Google Talk started in August 2005. For a GTalk user, it was "another".
Re: U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison Research says
#499It 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…
couple hundred people I would otherwise have no contact with Not being snarky, this is a genuine question - If you can't make the effort to email these people every other month or so, then do you really care that much about them? I can understand the difficulties in visiting in person, or even phone calls - many people don't like phone calls these days, but email/SMS? This sounds more like you have a passing curiosit…
I was about to comment on that particular remark too.
Lately I’ve unfollowed/unfriended everyone I dont feel I have a relationship to.
People of my class 1996 or whatever? Gone. That’s not my social circle anymore. Etc. You get the picture.
But still FB insisted on showing all kinds of uninteresting garbage instead of posts from people I know.
So now I’m no longer checking Facebook. And they did it to themselves.
Re: U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison Research says
#500The only reason I signed up for Facebook, just five years ago or less, is because someone posted a scientific paper or video there. This post wound up being not worth looking at and I didn't go to Facebook for anything until about three years ago when I went to a funeral and found some long lost relatives I hadn't seen in decades and others I never knew. "Are you on Facebook?", they asked. So I went there and friende…
Not sure your age range, but I'm an older millenial (mid-30s) and I couldn't tell you the last time I picked up the phone and called someone to chat without intention (making plans, etc) or sent a non-work email that wasn't related to something financial/house-buy/sale related.
I deleted FB last year but when I did use it it was purely as a messaging platform.
My personal gmail about 10 years ago turned into more of a graveyard for spam and receipts than a communication platform.