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Report: People Are Spending Much Less Time On Social Media (cnbc.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the better-things-to-do dept.

An anonymous reader writes from a report via CNBC: According to a new study from marketing intelligence firm SimilarWeb, people are spending less time on social media apps like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat. The company analyzed Android users' daily time spent on these social networks from January to March 2016 with the same period in 2015, which included data from the U.S., UK, Germany, Spain, Australia, India, South Africa, Brazil and Spain. Instagram usage was down 23.7 percent this year, Twitter usage was down 23.4 percent, Snapchat usage was down 15.7 percent, and Facebook usage was down 8 percent. Daily usage was down even more in the U.S. for most of the apps. In the U.S., Instagram usage was down 36.2 percent, Twitter was down 27.9 percent, Snapchat was down 19.2 percent but Facebook only fell 6.7 percent. Current installs for the four big social networks were down nine percent year over year. Meanwhile, Facebook's messaging apps, WhatsApp and Messenger increased their installs by 15 percent and 2 percent respectively.

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  1. Re: people finally realizing their privacy has val by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    People are tired of social media platforms that welcome chinks, kikes, wetbacks, and niggers. Speaking out against towelheads on Facebook is likely to cause your posting privileges to be suspended. People are tired of having the truth censored and want to be able to speak freely about these threats to their life and liberty. Let people speak freely and tell the truth about things like this and you'll see the traffic go back up. Commenting on Slashdot is also down because comments that speak the truth (like this one) generally get modded to -1. That, too, is a form of censorship by community standards, which drives people away.

  2. Re:Social Media is incompatible with Social Justic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    In Trump's case, racists wanna racist and they're throwing a fit by backing him.

    I suspect that the social media withdrawl is actually related more to harassment from rwnj type gamer gaters than it is from people who are trying to work for equality and fairness for everyone.