This was bound to fail: it's very hard to pledge to quit if you have > 0 friends that you actively follow.
Quit Facebook Day flops as only 1 in 15,000 pledge to quit
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Re: Quit Facebook Day flops as only 1 in 15,000 pledge to quit
#12The problem for Facebook isn't that people are going to quit, it's that they're going to stop sharing anything worthwhile.
Once the majority starts treating it as a glorified address book there's much less reason for people to visit regularly.
Re: Quit Facebook Day flops as only 1 in 15,000 pledge to quit
#13As I've said before: "Quit Facebook Day" is bound to be useless. What we need is "Join Alternative X Day". Where X is something you can recommend with a straight face. It's as if they had declared "Quit Internet Explorer Day" before Firefox was even released.
People should remember that before Facebook, MySpace was the unstoppable juggernaut. It's only when there's something to steal Facebook's thunder that it will go the way of MySpace and we'll all forget about it.
Re: Quit Facebook Day flops as only 1 in 15,000 pledge to quit
#14Of course it flopped. People who have strong objections to Facebook have already quit, or never joined in the first place.
Re: Quit Facebook Day flops as only 1 in 15,000 pledge to quit
#15I have multiple Facebook accounts back from the day an edu address was required. I never bothered to delete them. Same with my main account.
I am not sure why everyone takes Facebook's 500 million member number at face value when a quick look around reveals numerous spam, fake, and barely updated accounts.
Re: Quit Facebook Day flops as only 1 in 15,000 pledge to quit
#16This is sort of emblematic of the Facebook Faux Activist generation. While they are so prepared to step up and say something about their convictions, wrapped up and emotionally spirited after been told, all throughout their school lives about how their parents were activists (for things that actually mattered, but that's a different story), my generation lacks what matters when it comes to being an activist: The abil…
Given there are followers of Islam out there who (off the top of my head) bombed the Danish embassy in Pakistan, murdered Theo Van Gogh and put a bounty on Salman Rushdie's head I don't find it shocking at all that there were people willing to stand up and declare that they weren't intimidated.
Re: Quit Facebook Day flops as only 1 in 15,000 pledge to quit
#17I have multiple Facebook accounts back from the day an edu address was required. I never bothered to delete them. Same with my main account. I am not sure why everyone takes Facebook's 500 million member number at face value when a quick look around reveals numerous spam, fake, and barely updated accounts.
That's their active user number, not their total-user-accounts-in-our-database number.
Re: Quit Facebook Day flops as only 1 in 15,000 pledge to quit
#18It's not a "flop". Many of the most respected tech bloggers have permanently deleted their Facebook accounts. I did so myself about a month ago when I heard that Zuckerberg called FB users "dumb f cks". Who cares about hooking up with people you went to high school with anyway?
> It's not a "flop".
Agreed. It's a change in direction. Facebook is no longer on an easy, upward, unchallenged trajectory.
A business plan to compete directly with Facebook no longer seems foolish. Regardless of Diaspora's success, the overwhelming support of $200,000 of real money proved that there is a hungry market for a Facebook competitor; someone just has to build it.
Re: Quit Facebook Day flops as only 1 in 15,000 pledge to quit
#19That's the wrong way to calculate the "flop". 1 in 15k registered accounts quitting is a flop, but it can easily be argued that not all 500 million heard about the day. It's a marketing/awareness issue and language barriers (in how many languages did the day get promoted?).
The more correcet number is how many have pledged to quit and actually did? That's the real number. Even then it's not fool-proof because those pledging are already self-selecting. However, if zero (or very close to zero) people from pledgers actually quit, we even can call it a win for Facebook.
Re: Quit Facebook Day flops as only 1 in 15,000 pledge to quit
#20I used to be on Facebook quite a bit. I deleted my account a week ago, and the abrupt change felt surprisingly liberating. Facebook was becoming a chore to manage, but I didn't realize this until after I left.
Sems like there's still room for something more simplified (but not to Twitter's extreme.) Buzz?