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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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(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?