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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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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've posted this before but Instagram actually creates fictitious notifications when you stop using the app. That prompted me to delete it altogether.

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

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Post by prolepunk »

grecy wrote: post #433
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…

Yup, it has become staggering. I frequently get notifications on my personal page to say my business page has a notification. That notification turns out be to "Your users have not heard from you in a while, write a post". I get this all the time, even when I have written a post within the last five hours. I would say on average I get 5 notifications per day that are utterly useless.

Yep, I got so annoyed I was compelled write blog post about it, documenting the ways facebook is being transparently manipulative.

https://avolkov.github.io/fear-of-missing-out-as-a-business-...

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

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Post by prolepunk »

smacktoward wrote: post #317
MR4D wrote: post #39

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I thought FB was integrating their messaging platforms? That seemed to make all the news rounds a month ago. [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/technology/facebook-insta... [1] https://mashable.com/article/mark-zuckerberg-speaks-on-whats...

Integrating the backends of the messaging systems, not the frontends. There will still be separate apps called "Messenger," "Whatsapp," "Instagram," etc., but they'll just be different fixtures set on top of identical plumbing. This approach opens up exciting new opportunities for market segmentation via badge engineering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badge_engineering ... in much the same way that Ford (say) could…

I believe this is a bit more nefarious than a car manufacturer who is trying make you pay for a car slightly more. This is actively deceiving people into believing their privacy is safe by using products that have nothing to do with facebook.

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

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Post by squirrelicus »

chimprich wrote: post #557
squirrelicus wrote: post #320

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I think FB and people in general dramatically overstate how many connections they'll lose if they quit Facebook. I quit Facebook 9 years ago, but haven't lost a connection I cared about. I did lose connection with real people that were a net negative in my life, though

Self-selecting sample. People who are confident they won't lose any friends they value through leaving FB are significantly more likely to drop the platform.

My point is the lack of confidence is probably unjustified. But perhaps I'm wrong. It's not difficult to imagine that connections people think they have are so shallow that they actually would lose the important ones if they left Facebook.

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Post by squirrelicus »

JohnFen wrote: post #583
squirrelicus wrote: post #320

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I think FB and people in general dramatically overstate how many connections they'll lose if they quit Facebook. I quit Facebook 9 years ago, but haven't lost a connection I cared about. I did lose connection with real people that were a net negative in my life, though

> I quit Facebook 9 years ago, but haven't lost a connection I cared about. I did the same, around the same time, and my experience was the same as yours. I would go even further -- I found that after I quit Facebook, my connections with the people I actually care about increased rather than decreased once the intermediary was removed and we had to start communicating directly with each other.

There's really no substitute for giving a friend a phone call or meeting them for lunch.

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Post by diminoten »

vageli wrote: post #277
diminoten wrote: post #134

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I just unsubscribed from all of the folks on FB that post political stuff. Maybe they should make that a global option, something like "Hide Political Stories" or something.

How would you classify a political story?

Uses the name of any currently elected representative, maybe?

AI to the rescue though, this feels like something you can teach.

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Post by thatoneuser »

lordnacho wrote: post #365
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…

LinkedIn sends me notifications that say "you might have new notifications" and then when I click it out turns it I'm all up to date. Not sure if this is on purpose or just really bad qa.

Lol yeah, that's them not even bothering making up an excuse to pester you. They're literally just trying to snag a hook on you for nothing.

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

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Post by thatoneuser »

seandhi wrote: post #493
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 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.

Personally it's never seemed like a valuable resource in that regard to me. How do you go about this and how much success do you see?

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

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Post by thorwasdfasdf »

grecy wrote: post #433
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…

Yup, it has become staggering. I frequently get notifications on my personal page to say my business page has a notification. That notification turns out be to "Your users have not heard from you in a while, write a post". I get this all the time, even when I have written a post within the last five hours. I would say on average I get 5 notifications per day that are utterly useless.

ha aha. seems like all those PMs and mountains of engineers Facebook/linkedIn is hiring aren't helping their product much. They've got money to burn, so I don't think this is going to change anytime soon.

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

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Post by freddie_mercury »

bencollier49 wrote: post #380
freddie_mercury wrote: post #267

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Anecdotally (I don't live in America), every teenager has a Facebook account. Not a single person has WhatsApp. Instagram is used but not nearly as much as Facebook. (When people cross-post pictures you see the FB post has 3x - 10x the number of likes as the Instagram post.) There are zero political posts. Zero. I've never seen one. If my feed were full of political stuff, I'd also be sick of it. But feed is exclusiv…

Where do you live?

I live in Asia.
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