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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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ionised wrote: post #414
ashelmire wrote: post #73

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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…

> It turns out, many of us well educated people don't really want to network or socialize with poorly educated people. Are you speaking for yourself here?

Do you want to spend your free time reading through a bunch of right-wing MAGA memes? I sure don't.

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

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Post by asdffdsa »

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…

Same thing with twitter; every tweet is a notification it seems *facepalm

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

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Post by arethuza »

irrational wrote: post #536
arethuza wrote: post #443

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UK here as well, I remember a couple of years back my teenage son saying "Facebook is for old people".

USA here - I was at a meeting where a teenager was speaking. He was mentioning some other social media platform and said, as an aside, "That's like Facebook for you old people."

Yeah - I did understand there was an implied "like you" in his statement :-)

Not that I've used Facebook much!

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

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Post by magduf »

Spooky23 wrote: post #290
magduf wrote: post #140

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If I'm buying a used piece of furniture or whatever, I don't give a shit about prostitution going on elsewhere on the site. What's really hurt Craigslist is all the scammers. You can't post anything of value on there without some scammer responding and telling you they're going to send you a cashier's check and have a personal assistant pick it up. You don't have this problem at all on Facebook AFAICT. When someone r…

The scammers aren’t there because of prostitution, both categories are there because Craigslist attracts unsavory parties and does little or nothing to police them.

No, that's not correct at all. The difference is that Craigslist has no real accounts. When you get a response to your CL ad, even if the responder has a CL account, you don't see this, you just get a text message or phone call or email. With FB, everything is through the site because of the way it's centralized, and you can see the account and full name of the person who's contacting you. On CL, it's trivial for scammers to respond to ads with automated programs, but on FB they'd have to create a real-looking fake account in your area, complete with pictures, some kind of history, etc., which is a far greater undertaking.

In short, the formats of the sites make all the difference. CL was created to preserve anonymity and not be a centralized social network, but that feature is also its undoing because it facilitates scamming.

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

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Post by magduf »

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.

The lower-class people are the ones who are hooked on outrage and are still using the site. The upper-class people got sick of all the MAGA posts and left.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

riazrizvi wrote: post #359
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…

Investors want to see engagement metric graphs go up. Execs tie compensation to getting that metric up. Product delivers by mandating more alerts. Payday.

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

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Post by jannes »

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…

Once per day? That's a lot. I wouldn't call that "stop checking Facebook". You are still a MAU (monthly active user) in their statistics.

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

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Post by Reedx »

riazrizvi wrote: post #359
thatoneuser wrote: post #345

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Investors want to see engagement metric graphs go up. Execs tie compensation to getting that metric up. Product delivers by mandating more alerts. Payday.

In the short term. Long term probably not a great idea.
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