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When will we stop using Facebook?

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Re: When will we stop using Facebook?

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Post by onewaystreet »

junto wrote: post #34

I stopped two years ago. As far as I am aware I'm not missing much. I did have a lot of old friends on FB, but I didn't stay in contact with them in real life. I was just lazily snooping on their lives, without giving anything in return. To be completely honest, I don't have space or time for them in my real life. It isn't because I didn't like them anymore, it was simply that I didn't have the time or energy to stay…

The fact that 1.5 billion people use Facebook kind of suggests that you are wrong.

Re: When will we stop using Facebook?

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Post by dade_ »

So the bad news is that it is difficult to stop using Facebook. They let me export my data, but not birthdays of my friends list. I had to break the list down into family, friends, actual friends, then check each of their pages to update my address book. I had to disconnect the few apps that were attached which was easy for me as I avoided facebooks apps like the plague, but imagine losing all of your farm animals or whatever it is that people use the games for. Now that SMS is free and my carrier provides me a softphone for my PC and tablet for free, I have reverted to SMS (disabling iMessage is a PITA). Events I handle with my calendar app / email invites which hasn't been ideal, but since some of my friends refuse to use Facebook, it never was either.

Anyway, just some of my experience so far. At least they allow me to export my data, unlike Yelp bookmarks. I kept my usage of Facebook extremely light, but this has taken a lot of my spare time. Few people will go through this effort.

Before you start using a SaaS solution, figure out how you can stop using it.

Re: When will we stop using Facebook?

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Post by Kurtz79 »

mrweasel wrote: post #7

>Facebook is an insanely rich company to the tune of $192 billion as of September 2014 That's not exactly being rich, those aren't billions that Facebook can go spend in the same way as Apple can spend their cash reserves. The $192 billions is the evaluation of Facebook, not the money Facebook has available to spend. Profits are what makes companies rich, not that Facebook is doing to badly in that department.

Facebook is not a startup, it's a publicly traded company, meaning that its value is given by the numer of shares in the market times the stock price (which by this date is more than 226bn).

If we are talking about liquid cash, FB is sitting on 12 bn, which is not so far than AAPL 33 bn.

Re: When will we stop using Facebook?

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Post by baldfat »

onewaystreet wrote: post #41
junto wrote: post #34

I stopped two years ago. As far as I am aware I'm not missing much. I did have a lot of old friends on FB, but I didn't stay in contact with them in real life. I was just lazily snooping on their lives, without giving anything in return. To be completely honest, I don't have space or time for them in my real life. It isn't because I didn't like them anymore, it was simply that I didn't have the time or energy to stay…

The fact that 1.5 billion people use Facebook kind of suggests that you are wrong.

Feeling connected no matter how small is a very strong force. I like that I have connections from my childhood to my present and to all the places I lived. Even if it is I see that my friends kids are now in high school or that someone had a great event that I had zero impact on them having.

When my son was dying from cancer I just had to jump on Facebook and I had a ton of people that were willing to help out or send him messages and videos. It was a great tool to find people who could help.

Re: When will we stop using Facebook?

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Post by junto »

onewaystreet wrote: post #41
junto wrote: post #34

I stopped two years ago. As far as I am aware I'm not missing much. I did have a lot of old friends on FB, but I didn't stay in contact with them in real life. I was just lazily snooping on their lives, without giving anything in return. To be completely honest, I don't have space or time for them in my real life. It isn't because I didn't like them anymore, it was simply that I didn't have the time or energy to stay…

The fact that 1.5 billion people use Facebook kind of suggests that you are wrong.

> The fact that 1.5 billion people use Facebook kind of suggests that you are wrong.

I'm wrong?

No I'm an individual with my own preferences. Each to their own. I wasn't telling anyone else to leave. I was just describing my experiences.

Re: When will we stop using Facebook?

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Post by fwn »

PSeitz wrote: post #28

No need to Google for it, because everybody has it in his bookmarks.

I also found this graph to be a bad start. I mean, search queries? If facebook.com isn't bookmarked it's still presented as suggestion right after "f" is typed in close to any facebook users omnibox. The only reason I ever search for facebook is because I accidently mistyped it.

Re: When will we stop using Facebook?

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Post by Exuma »

sirwitti wrote: post #29

Did I get that correctly, that the hypothesis of facebook loosing 80% of its users (in the next years) is based on a link between google searches and facebook use? What if people google facebook less than a while ago because they already know what it is and have remembered the domain name?

lose* - this is one of the only misspellings that seem inexcusable to me. It's my ultimate pet peeve, because they don't even remotely sound the same.

Re: When will we stop using Facebook?

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Post by IanCal »

hessenwolf wrote: post #39
IanCal wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> No social network does a good job at allowing a person to share with those groups as desired. Doesn't g+ solve this with the whole "circles" idea? You control which groups you share with.

I think linkedin's groups solve it a bit better. The problem with circles is that the people in a given circle don't necessarily have me in a circle. I can really just group the input feed, not the output feed. It's more consumption than distribution focused.

> The problem with circles is that the people in a given circle don't necessarily have me in a circle.

I'm sorry, I don't really understand what you mean here. If they don't want to 'follow' you, why would you expect to send them things?

> I can really just group the input feed, not the output feed

You can choose which circle(s) you wish to share with, is that not controlling your output feed?

People can filter their input (who they have in their circles) and their output (which circles they share each piece of content with).

I suppose you can't follow a chosen subset of a single users output, unless you can do something fancy with tagging.

Re: When will we stop using Facebook?

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Post by dade_ »

junto wrote: post #34

I stopped two years ago. As far as I am aware I'm not missing much. I did have a lot of old friends on FB, but I didn't stay in contact with them in real life. I was just lazily snooping on their lives, without giving anything in return. To be completely honest, I don't have space or time for them in my real life. It isn't because I didn't like them anymore, it was simply that I didn't have the time or energy to stay…

It doesn't take a lot of effort to maintain contact with people that are important in our life today. The relationships that are important to us need to be nurtured, not followed. Facebook has created this (inadvertent) anti-social follow use case, and I think a lot of people have fallen into it.

Re: When will we stop using Facebook?

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Post by [deleted] »

junto wrote: post #34

I stopped two years ago. As far as I am aware I'm not missing much. I did have a lot of old friends on FB, but I didn't stay in contact with them in real life. I was just lazily snooping on their lives, without giving anything in return. To be completely honest, I don't have space or time for them in my real life. It isn't because I didn't like them anymore, it was simply that I didn't have the time or energy to stay…

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