Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted the app

Because Facebook has a particular history of just...being evil, for lack of a better word. I heard about the SnapChat leak, but I seem to hear about privacy invasions from Facebook on a weekly, if not bi-daily basis.

Also, it's not necessarily just Facebook HN likes to shit all over. From what I've seen it's Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple. They all kind of get their time in HN's 'hate spotlight'. (Oh, and it's not as big of a company, but Magic Leap is up there, too. :P )

There is, if anything, a bias towards favouring Apple products, but it's not nearly as fanboy/fangirl-ish as it is on the rest of the 'net. It seems at least HN'ers, even those who favour Apple, are, for the most part, also willing to admit it's bad practices.

And that's a pretty strong claim that Facebook is the internet for a lot of folks. What about YouTube? Google? Wikipedia? (Especially for students?) :/

Slightly different scenario on my side -- I want to use it, but the timeline has gotten so limited it doesn't draw me in as much. (No, i'm not on blocked lists. But strange things happen, e.g., Facebook has decided that despite my brother and I being friends and being marked "close" and not blocking each other, we dont see many of each others' posts.)

I'll confess I actually like using Facebook because it allows me to keep engaged and in touch with family with much less effort than before -- but whatever timeline changes they keep doing, I now see the same stories on my scroll. If I log in five times during the day, i see the same set of stories each of the five times.

Result: I don't check it as much, dont want to check it as much. So much for ranking functions.

That's why Facebook's quarterly number of daily users has dropped precipitously from 181 million daily users to ... 181 million daily users.

Facebook's daily user numbers havn't dropped at all. So either they're moving to IG, or people say a lot of things in surveys.

EDIT: Meant to specify, the numbers in this comment are US only.

This is the exact reason I deleted the app about 3 years ago, haven't looked back since.

When they made their super aggressive push for the messenger app and disabled message support on the regular FB app, there was no reason to keep the FB app around. I never installed the FB messenger app though, it required access to just about everything on my phone so I never dared installing it.

Then they disabled the messenger feature on the mobile version of their website, and everybody stopped using FB messenger altogether. Problem solved.

The real question is what this really means for their bottom line. Young people not joining / leaving Facebook was predicted a decade ago. (“Who wants to join a social network with your mom?”, was the question.) But they also own what appears to be the biggest alternative platform, Instagram. On top of this, they’re still growing in APAC and other regions where they haven’t yet reached saturation (ie NA and Europe)

Sure FB is morphing, but it’s not clear that Facebook Corp hasn’t set itself up a tidy bulwark against the decline of Facebook.com in NA & Europe. They might have. If they have, then they’ll continue to make money just fine.