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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 andrewstuart2 »

paulpauper wrote: post #184

The methodology and reasoning behind this study is dubious at best. http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=myspace%2C%20facebook... If google trends is of any predictive value, Uber and Instagram should not exist (or at least be worse than myspace). The keyword 'snapchat' also shows near zero volume.

There are so many more reasons for declining search volume. It could just be that your users are starting to type terms directly into the address bar.

Or that browsers have gotten smart enough that they're autocompleting facebook.com instead of just letting you search for facebook.

I do love a good Google trends "research" dive but I'd hardly consider it good enough to cite for a scholarly paper. There aren't even real numbers, just relative search volumes.

Re: When will we stop using Facebook?

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Post by notdanariely »

tim333 wrote: post #96
pjc50 wrote: post #23

I really should flesh out my "why you can't have a good distributed social network" post some time. What does FB provide that you don't get with a combination of email/USENET/blogs/chat? Branding, janitors, and indexing. Branding is useful because these things are so scale-driven that you want to be on the one that everyone else is using. It's easier for the uninvolved to figure this out if it's the one with huge adv…

> Why should you post life updates? Because it's the "done thing". No - it's because you've done something you think your friends would be interested in and it's a lot easier to take a photo and click 'post to Facebook' than to write to 30 people. That's really the fundamental function of Facebook and any successor will probably succeed by doing it better in some way. eg. Snapchat enabling you to send naughty pics wi…

This makes sense, and I understand that most people find it highly convenient.

Just to offer a different perspective: to me, the valuable part of sharing life events is the engagement with another person. IE, the extreme convenience (broadcasting 1-to-30 people) undercuts the reason for sharing: connection.

(I also have recently identified concerns I have with group mechanics, and this no doubt influences my perspective.)

Re: When will we stop using Facebook?

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Post by FlaceBook »

baldfat wrote: post #44
onewaystreet wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 sen…

Facebook would like to thank you for giving them the opportunity to monetize your son's cancer.

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Post by dimino »

I dislike posts about Facebook's usage, if for no other reason than how many people tend to come out and say "I don't use it and I can't imagine why anyone would".

That statement is just so intellectually dishonest, it completely ruins the entire conversation. Pretending like there's no value in what Facebook offers ignores billions of dollars and billions of users who do find value. Now I'm not one for an ad populum, but when we define usefulness as "provides value to others", how can't Facebook be considered useful?

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Post by fezz »

madez wrote: post #118
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…

I also stopped using Facebook, shortly before the revelations of massive surveillance. At that time I was convinced I shouldn't be in the arms of companies, stopped using many services and started self-hosting stuff. People didn't understand me. Then, Edward Snowden revealed that the possible abstract threats I wanted to avoid can in fact become real. We are fortunate to have received this information. People still d…

I stopped about two years ago also and now have a fake account because I needed one for Tinder. I've been given flack for being 'antisocial' but i'm rewarded by being able to play clueless about the facebook dramas that people talk about.

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Post by ajkjk »

Retra wrote: post #162
tracker1 wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry, I actually forgot about g+, since none of my friends/family/acquaintances actually use it... mostly followed industry people's posts for a while, but I get most of that on twitter. G+ was a really nice imo way to work through it... too bad nobody used it in practice. I also hope that they work through a few of the issues I have with hangouts, mostly in taking over Google Voice duties, and the limited UX on the…

I've found the G+ interface to be mostly unusable, so there's no way I would use it for anything serious.

Same here. Regardless of how sensible their model was, I couldn't find a way to get myself to be willing to spend time on their UI.

It was just bad. With something like Facebook rises up from being unknown, its UI was pretty much vouched for early on (otherwise someone else would have won out). Google didn't have to survive competition. They just picked a UI, and I'm sure they followed lots of good UI principles and had lots of experts, but it was completely unappealing.

They also forced everything to integrate with G+ in really useless ways, which made me dislike it before even trying it. It didn't have any material problem in my life that it solved that would have made me put up with the UI. FB did: it was required for mainstream society, and it let me message my friends and others easily on the computer.

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