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US Users Are Leaving Facebook by the Millions, Research Says (marketplace.org)
An anonymous reader shares a report: All the bad press about Facebook might be catching up to the company. New numbers from Edison Research show an an estimated 15 million fewer users in the United States compared to 2017. The biggest drop is in the very desirable 12- to 34-year-old group. Marketplace Tech got a first look at Edison's latest social media research. It revealed almost 80 percent of people in the U.S. are posting, tweeting or snapping, but fewer are going to Facebook.
It's the only way to be sure.
Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter.. All of it.
Harrison's Postulate - "For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism"
People still use Facebook?
They're just moving from one of Facebook's data collecting websites (facebook.com) to a different one (instagram.com). They're still giving Facebook roughly the same amount of data.
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I've seen very few people actually leaving Facebook...
I wonder how many of those leaving are real users, vs. some kind of bot accounts that are not getting the traction they used to?
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Unless you an old conspiracy nut, why would you use facebook?
In the US, only old people use Facebook.
Are dying off. Thats what it is
Facebook owns Instagram. Facebook will buy up any other competitors.
It really doesn't matter. Let me know when people get tired sharing every aspect of their lives with the internet, then we'll have something to talk about.
I would comment but I don't post anymore...
"I've seen very few people actually leaving Facebook..." - Staring out from your asshole I wouldn't imagine you would be able to see much, true.
I prefer interacting directly with ugly bags of mostly water. I could care less if 1500 people "like" my cat videos online. The people who are most important to me are the ones sitting in front of me.
The Social Internet was always going to be a passing fad.
I have 30-40 friends that I check their Facebook accounts occasionally over the past few years but find myself not even bothering anymore.
All but a few have bother posting anything for months and in some cases years. Those few that are still active for the most part do so just with profile picture changes or other minor updates.
I don't know anyone who has bothered to 'leave' as in deleting their accounts. It feels like a ghost town with food still left on the table from months to years ago when the people just left and never came back.
Facebook's stock is going to be one of the greatest shorts in the history of the stock market. It's only a matter of when.
Most people are too stupid and vain to stop using Facebook.
Kendall to a T.
But it's even worse than that, she's so dishonest she's convinced herself that it's not a problem.
Interesting but ultimately futile, since they will still be mining your data indefinitely.
It is possibly too obvious to point out, but no one seemed to care one whit about it until it became a supposed scandal - by selling the data to the Trump campaign. No one gave a tinker's damn about it when Obama very famously did the same.
The flood gates opened, anyone could register, people moved on. News at 11.
Seriously, 12-35 isn't an age group, it's the entirety of the best days of your life (not that life past 35 isn't good, it's great, but generally it's not as good as the previous years). If you're still using social media past 35, I feel sorry for you. If you need a real friend, I'm here.
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is that there's not a lot to keep your users coming back. All it takes is for them and their immediate circle to switch to anther networking site or method. Something hipper and cooler. Once you lose the young 'uns you become uncool real fast. It's only a matter of time before you're associated with... email (*hurk*).
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Many users have multiple accounts so that you can safely check on other people. At some point you stop using those other accounts... Facebook for many people is nothing but interactive address book, with messaging capabilties.
Immediate family left, stopped logging in and uninstalled the phone app well over a year ago.
Screen instead of actually talking to someone or seeing them in person was a poor substitute.
All the bad press about Facebook might be catching up to the company.
Maybe it is that the attention spans of those 12-34 year olds have slidden even farther. Or maybe it's just that the platform was due to start declining anyway as people, finally, start to understand how advertising-based business models and OSINT work.
The Daddy casts sleep on the Baby. The Baby resists!
Whenever I see Zuck speaking I am reminded of Olstein. Say anything to the sheep so I can get my next jet. Amazing how well they lie. Zuck, "I hold your privacy in the highest regard." Most successful people nowadays seem to have mastered it. From Trump, to Zuck to Olstein. Maybe we should be teaching kids how to lie well on camera.
Well it was good while it lasted, but greed and the temptation of all that data provided Zuckerberg and company a bunch of data they couldn't resist exploiting for their own benefit. It made many of them at Facebook very wealthy which was probably the goal in the first place. Best thing to do is stop feeding the monster so it will die.
Did you know that the number of US users "leaving Facebook" is almost exactly the same as the number of US users joining Instagram? ...which is owned by Facebook.
Sorry, Americans, you played yourself.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Businesses, at least those that advertise, absolutely love facebook. Seems that most ads end with, "Like us on facebook!" Which, of course, gives me just one more reason to dislike them and not do business with them.*
If we can somehow get businesses to stop their facebook habit, then we could finally see the end of it.
*If they're that unconcerned about their own privacy, then how could I ever trust them with mine?
by locking me out of my account and demanding legal proof of my name!
Rick B.
"In Korea only old people use Facebook"
Stop sowing division, Ivan.
You can quit for a few days to weeks, but you'll be back. If they are serious they will need bupropion.
The good ones leaving or the anti-vaxxers etc? I think I know the answer!
... I've left LinkedIN. But I'm staying with FB for a while. I have cut back my already meager participation to nearly no participation on FB, though. I cut back for one main reason beside the whole mess that is FB nowadays - when I log on, I cannot get FB to show me my newsfeed in the manner I want to see it, for some reason, FB thinks it knows better what items on my news feed to show me first. So long as FB continues to do that, I will know that I have little to no control over what I do on FB, so I'm out of there eventually.
So where are the kids going?
Mark Zuckerberg's lack of ethics is the problem. We're the product and we don't want to be bought, sold, or processed.
Remember kids, if you're not paying for the service, YOU ARE THE PRODUCT THAT IS BEING SOLD.
I posted this the other day.
I deleted Facebook ...
Disclaimer: I am not in the demographic listed in TFS. I'm 73 and very disappointed in the Internet at large.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
A picture is worth a thousand words don't ya know
Humanity would be better off leaving all so-called 'social media' and learning to actually interact with actual people live in person again.
The chap app is annoying and gives more publicity every day it is passing, and even is construed in such a way for you to see movies or other functionalities by mistake.
The feed is annoying, and they try to change it and fight regularly plugins/app filtering it; they also invent news ways of spamming us, like "a donate bottom"....
So little wonder people is leaving....
Some Americans are finally waking up...
Can't stop. We're having too much fun.
retard is off topic
I wonder why...
#DeleteFacebook
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Months ago, haven't missed it a bit.
Facebook has enough data on everyone to keep foisting advertisers in to spending big; AND, they can use images from the internet to make people who dont exist if the advertisers start asking questions.
Move to XMPP guys
Facebook used to be where I went to see what my friends are up to. Now it's where I go to be bombarded with sponsored crap. It's all political outrage, cat videos and click-bait.
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