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The reason I stopped using is because I realised that quantity of posts was increasing while the quality was decreasing. My news feed just to be app activity, ads, and other chaff I am not interested in - not just my friends, but also friends of friends.
Well, people's engagement with facebook has certainly declined from its peak years ago. However, all your "friends" are on it. Nobody wants to go back through that process on an upstart network. Nobody has the energy or motivation. There's plenty of room for new entrants that take slices of your friends and optimize that experience. For example, another network for just your family... offering a close, intimate exper…
I stopped abusing Facebook about a year ago, and really haven't missed it at all. The reason I stopped using is because I realised that quantity of posts was increasing while the quality was decreasing. My news feed just to be app activity, ads, and other chaff I am not interested in - not just my friends, but also friends of friends.
Facebook has been faking it for at least a year. By faking it I mean not growing under their own power. Now "Fakebook" either has to buy users (like the Instagram deal) or its growth is due to mostly fake users with fake likes giving fake metrics. People are leaving Fakebook now. Not in droves (yet), but the opinion leaders within groups and families are. The ones that are informed are. And the rest will follow once…
One user writes, "I started to compare my life to others, hating people based off of their status...All it brought me was anger and a lower self-confidence. Almost immediately after deleting it, I felt better. I'm mostly ok with how I live my life and I don't need to compare my life to that of others."
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Why it will not go they way of MySpace is because no matter if you don't use facebook...you use facebook whenever you go to a ton of other sites. Its hard NOT to use fb.
So I say this...
Facebook is the new Ticketmaster.
If you want to go to a big concert or other big event, well you have to use Ticketmaster...at least almost have to just like facebook.
It's clearly the new AOL.
For those who scale down how they use it (make profile private, engage only w/ real-world friends, post some pictures) Facebook can be rewarding and useful. It's when you follow Facebook's own druthers to have a public profile and connect with everyone under the sun (and like every product under the sun) that Facebook suddenly becomes shit.
But it's not cool anymore, mom and aunts and uncles remind me of that every day