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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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Post by panopticon »

ashelmire wrote: post #73
gwbas1c wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> For me personally, it's almost impossible to deal with. Way too many political posts from my friends and family. Bingo, that's what's doing it for me. Before the 2016 presidential election, Facebook was fun. It was also a great way to get news. But now, what I'm finding is that a lot of people on Facebook just don't know how to behave in a public forum. It makes it painful, because someone always knows someone who'…

Lots of things changed. Facebook began as an exclusive social network for upper-class students. Gradually it grew to encompass not just all of America, but the entire world. It turns out, many of us well educated people don't really want to network or socialize with poorly educated people. Police started monitoring our activities, so the events all but disappeared. The world changed, too. Facts used to matter; we rea…

I'm not even sure how to properly characterize how condescendingly out of touch your comment is.

I was on Facebook before it opened to the general public, and it wasn't some ivory tower of intelligent thought where the educated could avoid mingling with the dumb. It was full of stupid social media stuff then too.

After Facebook opened up, my "poorly educated" uncle was content using Facebook to simply socialize with family and friends in 2012 when today he does nothing but share right-wing memes.

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

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Post by itsthewrongway »

bad_user wrote: post #38
kojackst wrote: post #10

Note: personal opinion bellow It seems to me that the overall interest in Facebook is decreasing. The social network hasn't had any interesting feature added to it in the last couple of years. It's becoming boring and boring, so that's why I believe people are leaving. Still, Instagram and WhatsApp are running strong with barely no competition. We don't see any news about their user base decreasing and news channels…

Instagram is almost unusable due to the ads. Every 3 or 4 posts you see an ad. The only way Instagram isn't obnoxious is on the desktop, in a browser, with an ad-blocker installed. I love WhatsApp, but they haven't found good ways to monetize it yet and one of these days they'll ruin it.

I use the Instagram website on my iPhone with safari and no ad-blocker installed and have never seen an ad once.

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

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Post by 1stcity3rdcoast »

b1r6 wrote: post #92
stcredzero wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's becoming boring and boring, so that's why I believe people are leaving. The problem with Facebook, is that either it's boring, or it's not boring, and in that case it's often far worse. Facebook latched onto the fact that outrage measures as "engagement" then other people latched onto that fact and started to use Facebook for their own outrage mongering purposes. Still, Instagram and WhatsApp are running strong…

I find that to be a really intriguing idea. Offering a gradient instead of platform ultimatums. Could this scale, is the question?

YouTube has YouTube Kids plus different levels of content filtering available to users. Similar concept, in a way.

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

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Post by JohnFen »

_red wrote: post #17
forgotmysn wrote: post #2

that sounds like a drop in the ocean that is fb's massive and growing userbase

You may be an older person, but for anyone with teens an interesting aspect is that they hardly use it. FB is turning into a "how to talk to grandma" network.

Yep, and if I remember right, that was the same pattern that the prior dominant social platforms saw before they collapsed.

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

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Post by stcredzero »

1stcity3rdcoast wrote: post #203
b1r6 wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I find that to be a really intriguing idea. Offering a gradient instead of platform ultimatums. Could this scale, is the question?

YouTube has YouTube Kids plus different levels of content filtering available to users. Similar concept, in a way.

I wish they'd accommodate news and opinion in the same way. Maybe that way, they could keep their employees out of the business of censoring the internet in line with their particular biases.

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

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Post by rmason »

stcredzero wrote: post #81
kojackst wrote: post #10

Note: personal opinion bellow It seems to me that the overall interest in Facebook is decreasing. The social network hasn't had any interesting feature added to it in the last couple of years. It's becoming boring and boring, so that's why I believe people are leaving. Still, Instagram and WhatsApp are running strong with barely no competition. We don't see any news about their user base decreasing and news channels…

It's becoming boring and boring, so that's why I believe people are leaving. The problem with Facebook, is that either it's boring, or it's not boring, and in that case it's often far worse. Facebook latched onto the fact that outrage measures as "engagement" then other people latched onto that fact and started to use Facebook for their own outrage mongering purposes. Still, Instagram and WhatsApp are running strong…

I was never that engaged in Facebook, just checked it once a week. Then I started helping managing a private forum (for Michigan entrepreneurs) and got invited into another one. Now I'm on FB a couple of times a day.

Having the chance to engage with bright people who share my passion was the key. But the majority of my family has never been on Facebook.

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

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Post by 0xffff2 »

anarchy8 wrote: post #106
AdrianB1 wrote: post #94

I lost too many "friends" on Facebook: I knew these people for many years, but I was shocked what they posted - from stupid to incredible things, mostly politics and mostly far left. I started cutting all these people and I was left with less than 20 when I closed my account.

> mostly politics and mostly far left You're upset that your friends have different political opinions than you? And you're blaming Facebook for this? Why?

Is that wrong? I have virtually no interest in politics. It's unlikely that I'm going to remain friends with anyone who expresses particularly strong political views, left or right. I just don't care, and find it too exhausting to be bothered most of the time. If the only place I see/hear those views is on Facebook, it might be easier to drop Facebook than to drop those friends.

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

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Post by toufiqbarhamov »

aboutruby wrote: post #205

At this point Facebook is so big that "millions leaving" could be people dying, people losing their accounts, etc. It's very small compared to their scale of more than 2 billions users.

That’s true, if that’s where it ends and doesn’t represent a burgeoning trend, and if it doesn’t have a feedback effect leading to greater losses. After all if a fire starts in a mansion, well the fire is tiny and the mansion is huge, why get all excited over nothing? You have to leverage what you know about fire if you want to appreciate the threat it represents to the structure.

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Post by peruvian »

fullshark wrote: post #124
standardUser wrote: post #109

It feels like Facebook now contains all of the negative parts of social media - complaining, arguing, chain posts, fake news, relatives, etc. While Instagram now has all the pleasant parts - pretty photos of families, vacations and food! So these days I find myself using Instagram regularly and Facebook almost never. Having said that, I'll never leave Facebook until something else replaces it. It's the only place I h…

Instagram to me seems like the worst parts of social media, in that it's a vanity feeding mechanism amplified. Which in turn makes it an anxiety inducing experience if you aren't doing "cool things" that make other people jealous.

I enjoy using IG but I don’t follow many real people. I follow organizations, brands, etc. I like seeing their new stuff as well as any news such as sales, new releases, etc. I follow photographers and artists. It’s essentially a feed of stuff I like.

I wouldn’t follow “real” people unless they’re close friends. Don’t want to see people’s lunches or vacations.

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