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U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison Research says
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. Marketplace's Kimberly Adams talked with Larry Rosin, president of Edison Research.
[...] Adams: But if we look at Facebook's earnings report, they are still reporting an increasing number of active users. What's behind the difference between what the company is saying and what your survey found?
Rosin: When they're producing those numbers, they're typically talking about their global platform. This is a survey just of the USA. Furthermore, we're asking about usage. We're saying, "Do you currently use Facebook?" Facebook is probably measuring it on, "Do you ever open the app, or do you ever use it on any level?"
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday March 07 2019, @12:48PM (9 children)
If you still believe at your age in "mob** intelligence", you're not only old, you're senile.
See where are they leaving to [soylentnews.org] (spoiler: Instagram)
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** what else can you call those using social media?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 4, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Thursday March 07 2019, @01:05PM (8 children)
When we stop hoping, we might as well lie down and die. That isn't senility, youngster.
Yeah, I'm aware that kids like instagram better than they like facefook. I was aware of it before this article came out. Add another hope to the list of hopes: the kids are smarter than they look, and they figure out that instagram is just as bad as Facefook.
(Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Thursday March 07 2019, @01:19PM (1 child)
I can sell you some seeds of cynicism, it grows well on shredded hope. When fully developed, you no longer need hope to live.
Granted, you don't actually care if you'd die the next day, but cynicism makes life so much more tastier. No, seriously, I'm not even kidding or trying to be witty here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 4, Informative) by DannyB on Thursday March 07 2019, @04:50PM
As a connoisseur of tasty cynicism, I don't know whether to mod you funny or insightful.
I can say that at some point you get old enough, have a good title, good position, fun hobbies, and your only goal starts to shift to being modded Funny. So I'll go with that.
To transfer files: right-click on file, pick Copy. Unplug mouse, plug mouse into other computer. Right-click, paste.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by c0lo on Thursday March 07 2019, @01:27PM
Suuure... (chuckle only, lest we wake up granpops from his dreams; he fell outta bed for quite a while but he doesn't seem bothered)
(btw, your hopes, you carry the burden to keep track of them)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Informative) by DavePolaschek on Thursday March 07 2019, @03:08PM
Uh, isn't Instagram part of the Facebook empire? Yup. Says so right here here [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Thursday March 07 2019, @05:11PM
But it's better to hope for plausible outcomes. Or at least outcomes where you have some degree of influence over the result.
So...for facebook, the attempt at a FOSS replacement was reasonable, but expecting people to just drop social media isn't. (Mind you, I think the attempt is doomed because of network effects...but I could be wrong, and the outcome might be very desirable.)
That said, if you build the replacement, you're (morally) responsible for the effects that you don't like as well as the ones that you do, and for the ones that you didn't foresee as well as the ones that you did. (Morally. Legally your responsibilities are a lot less, particularly once you form a corporation.)
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 07 2019, @06:00PM (2 children)
Finally some wisdom out of Runaway!
We must move to distributed social networks.
- Mastodon
- GNUSocial
- Diaspora*
- IRC
- XMPP?
Imho the major concern with services like Failbook and that one for twits is what involvement the Five Eyes has. We know that the NSA has real-time backups of the internet, but even if it's feasible for state-level actor to brute force any particular HTTPS stream after the fact, HTTPS is meaningless if the FBI/CIA/MI6/etc is going to slurp up the unencrypted data directly from Failbook (which will provide them handy indexing and analysis to boot).
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday March 07 2019, @07:10PM
> Imho the major concern with services like Failbook and that one for twits is what involvement the Five Eyes has.
Just a friendly reminder: The government has a right to know essentially everything about you, and can legally compel you to share your (non-incriminating) life details.
Which is expected in an advanced society, from the government.
The fact that what bothers you about the permanent data slurping by private for-profit peddlers of ads and sellers of databases is that the government might end up with the information, is quite indicative how fucked up your priorities are.
Look out ! There could be a dinosaur behind the man emptying his AK-47 in your general direction !
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 07 2019, @11:15PM
Great! As soon as any of those services get as many of my friends and relatives on them that I've had on Facebook, I'm there. Until then there's no cause for me to be on those other services. Which is exactly the problem.