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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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Cum tacent, clamant. When they are silent, they shout. -Cicero
(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!