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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: 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.