Daily Facebook users drops for the first time in US

Post by fwdpropaganda » Mon, Feb 05, 2018, 11:24 AM UTC

test1235 wrote: post #50

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I'm in the exact same spot. Android can be ditched for LineageOS. Gmail is risky because of security; using anything else is a big gamble. Maps is also irreplaceable right now, but over time competitors will get better. You should ditch Chromium as well.

if you were really wanting to move away from gmail, I'd recommend a paid-for service, like fastmail

My comment about security still applies. In fact, I think it was precisely fastmail that a while ago I read on HN someone complaining that someone else hacked them by calling customer support and kind of guessing some questions.

Post by dingaling » Mon, Feb 05, 2018, 11:35 AM UTC

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The MySpace comparison is a little tired. MySpace felt big, but even at its peak, only had 75m MAUs. Even Pinterest today has over twice as many, between 175m and 200m. Facebook is at 2.2bn, and its DAILY active users are 184m. Extrapolated over a month, this blip accounts for half of MySpace's MAUs. There's some pretty serious network effects there, to the point where building a slightly better mousetrap is not goin…

Network effect isn't that relevant since people don't actually have a ton invested in Facebook beyond just the social graph and that social connectivity. It is thus rife for a preference cascade if it turns out a competitor hits all the right buttons with some other compelling reason to switch. All it really takes is for a competitor to be actually superior on the merits (so, not something like google plus that was m…

> beyond just the social graph and that social connectivity

And Facebook Groups. That was one of Facebooks genius moves, there is so much local information locked-up in those silos out of sight of Google and other search engines. It is Facebook's treasure-trove that keeps people engaged, particularly for hyper-local news and interests not covered by the media. And no hosting costs, nor time spent on admin tasks.

I'm active on a locality-based special-interest forum that after a decade of slow growth has around 600 total members and about 20 posting-active. Anyone can come along and look at it, and sign-up if they like. The equivalent Facebook Group has 2,000+ members in just a couple of years, and no way for non-members to view it.

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