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More than 640,000 users left Facebook last year, in the Netherlands: the first time a clear drop in Facebook's userbase has been registered.
While previously it were mainly youngsters who were quitting Facebook, the drop is now common across all age cohorts. The main reason seems to be the Cambridge Analytica scandal and all the hubbub following it: loss of confidence is most often cited as the main reason to leave.
Facebook haters should not rejoice too early though: the Netherlands still has a userbase of 10.1 million; most of those who left Facebook simply migrated to WhatsApp and/or Instagram, which are owned by Facebook.
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Whistler's Law:
You never know who is right, but you always know who is in charge.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 27 2019, @07:15AM (11 children)
The main reason seems to be the Cambridge Analytica scandal
My reason for basically stop using this thing is not because of the platform. But a few high screechy voices that dominate my wall. I remembered why I stopped talking to these people years ago...
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday January 27 2019, @07:27AM (10 children)
These days, if you're not on Social Media you're a nobody. But I can tell you need a better Social Media Manager -- believe me, I can tell. So happy I found Dan, he does so many miracles behind the scenes!!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday January 27 2019, @08:43AM (8 children)
Of course, there are a helluva lot of nobodies on social media. Just go onto any of the social media sites using an account that has no membership. Start browsing. Almost everyone is a noone. You've got to search to find a somebody. And, no, the self appointed somebodies aren't necessarily anyone at all.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday January 27 2019, @09:20AM (7 children)
As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, think big. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. Won't happen, folks. You get yourself a GREAT Social Media Manager. He -- or she, there's some incredibly talented (and terrific looking) ladies out there -- gets you the Followers. Otherwise known as Friends. By any means necessary. You get your message out there. And you're a Somebody. You're an Influencer. Sometimes it costs a little, sometimes it costs a lot. But if you're smart you make it all back on the other side. 2009, I made my first Tweet. Look at me, look how far it's taken me. For Americans, the sky is never the limit!!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday January 27 2019, @09:37AM (6 children)
*cough*
Influencer? Oh, PLEASE!!
https://nypost.com/2018/01/17/hotel-owner-eviscerates-influencer-for-requesting-free-stay/ [nypost.com]
(Score: 1, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday January 27 2019, @10:48AM (5 children)
Great example. You get your name in the New York Post, you're doing great. Beautiful Rupert Murdoch number. Hundreds of thousands of people looking at that one. In the best city in the world. And possibly you're thinking, "oh, what if they give me negative coverage?" I'll tell you, negative coverage has taken me very far. 90% of media coverage of my Administration is negative. And much of it is contrived. But we are achieving tremendously positive results. 2016, after I won the Primaries, the media really went on a witch-hunt against me. False reporting, and plenty of it -- but we prevailed! We Black Listed some of the worst ones -- Univision, BuzzFeed (Wrong Way McKay), Politico, Huffington Post, the Daily Beast, the Des Moines Register. And we sued Univison, very successfully. They agreed to do the Broadcast of my Miss U. S. A. Pageant, they flaked on that one very badly. Some horrible coverage -- but there was A LOT of it. And it got my name out there, it got my message out there. Not always in the nicest way but it was there. Crooked H let anybody cover her, they didn't want to. Because she's very Politically Correct. Otherwise known as boring. She paid, she put her boring ads on, people fell asleep. And she lost horribly!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday January 27 2019, @11:39AM (4 children)
Dude, you're one of SN's biggest Nucking Phutts - but you do make a point. Still, so-called influencers are relying on their white privilege, or something like it. What do we call it, tech privilege? Snowflake privilege? A large percentage of these "influencers" just turn my stomach. Of course, those who follow the influencers aren't much better. Brainless little shits without a clue, looking for someone to tell them what to think.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday January 27 2019, @05:48PM (3 children)
You. Are. Being. Trolled. Assign him a Foe and knock him down to -1 by default already.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Sunday January 27 2019, @06:24PM (2 children)
Of course this is not the real DT. He is an SN member, who has decided to troll all of us by assuming the DT personna. This has been discussed before, of course. But, he is a pretty good troll, don't you admit? He brings up some interesting stuff, and often adds something to a conversation. Well . . . maybe not "often", but he does so sometimes. Like, above. I've already conceded that he made a point here.
Assign him a Foe? Whatever for? If I can't see what an enemy is posting, then I remain ignorant of what that enemy is thinking, amirite? And, Donny boy isn't even a real enemy. He's just a half-cocked nutjob troll.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday January 27 2019, @06:26PM (1 child)
Why do you keep feeding him then? My standard response to him shitting up my journals is "Shut the fuck up, Donny, you're out of your element" without a single extra thought given to it.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday January 27 2019, @06:35PM
ROFLMAO - this really IS his element!
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 27 2019, @06:25PM
Well well well one the board trolls shows up to make my point. In a glaringly obvious way.
Same voices over and over changing the conversation to something no one wanted to actually talk about. All for a joke. Dominating the conversation with little more than banal platitudes. Trying to provoke an argument.
My guess the 'irony' is lost on them as they do not see *they* are the ones who ruin social media. They are after all 'making a point'. They lost the fact that after 3-4 times a joke turns from funny to annoying. They fail to realize they are little more than 'hot grits' or 'sharks with lasers' that we used to mercilessly mock on the other site. They have become the 'hosts file' guy. Posting the same parody over and over. Thinking they are so funny.
To the troll. You have put a lot of effort into this. Seriously put it into something productive. You obviously are well spoken. You know how to be presentable. You have focus. Perhaps instead of trolling you should focus on something more productive than pissing people off on the internet? If all you have in your life is provoking strangers on the internet and then arguing with your hallucination of them you may need to change your priority. Maybe take your own advice and get a social media manager to filter out all the trash you spew? Perhaps you disagree? Well now you can run off to your sock puppets an down vote me. Maybe they will give you solace in life? OR take my advice and do something actually productive with that energy you have?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Sunday January 27 2019, @07:55AM (2 children)
"I'm tired of the way you screw me over, I'm leaving!"
"So, where are you going?"
"I'm moving into the downstairs bedroom. You can visit me there."
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 27 2019, @09:08AM
The technical term is "dumb fucks."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @12:50PM
It's the network effect. My wife won't quit Facebook for Mastodon, Pleroma, Diaspora, GNU Social, Fritter, etc.. because nobody else she knows (aside from me) is there.
Figuring out how to overcome that obstacle may be the fundamental obstacle to preserving democracy in our time.
(Score: 4, Funny) by deimios on Sunday January 27 2019, @09:42AM
Nah those were just accounts of Russians that Facebook terminated. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/31/facebook-russia-election-midterms-meddling [theguardian.com]
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 27 2019, @05:02PM (1 child)
"most of those who left Facebook simply migrated to WhatsApp and/or Instagram, which are owned by Facebook."
most of those who left Slavebook simply migrated to WhatsSlave and/or InstaSlave, which are owned by Slavebook.
FTFY
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Monday January 28 2019, @01:47AM
Is the problem that Facebook is too controlling, powerful, and unaccountable, or is the problem with the whole idea of social media? If it's the former, then maybe an open Facebook like platform such as Diaspora ( https://diasporafoundation.org [diasporafoundation.org] ) would be okay?