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martyb
on Wednesday July 10 2019, @07:18AM
from the sudden-outbreak-of-common-sense? dept.
from the sudden-outbreak-of-common-sense? dept.
Facebook Usage Falling after Privacy Scandals, Data Suggest:
Facebook usage has plummeted over the last year, according to data seen by the Guardian, though the company says usage by other measures continues to grow.
Since April 2018, the first full month after news of the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke in the Observer, actions on Facebook such as likes, shares and posts have dropped by almost 20%, according to the business analytics firm Mixpanel.
Taking that month as a baseline, total actions fell by more that 10% within a month, recovered a bit over the summer and then fell again over the autumn and winter of 2018, except for a brief rally over the period of the US midterm elections.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 10 2019, @08:39AM (6 children)
I'll wait for Facebook to verify this story :)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 10 2019, @09:08AM (1 child)
Damn straight, Facebook is always a reliable source of investor information!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 10 2019, @10:13AM
Corporate predation, is Mark Zuckerberg a dangerous individual? [summit.news]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 10 2019, @10:10AM (3 children)
fake news (we would like to see happen) - FB usage falls to under 100,000 idiots remaining and Zuckenscheizer and his investors go to jail for 235 years each.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 10 2019, @10:26AM
Don't blame the investors.
Firstly, they are just out to make a buck.
Secondly, they have recently tried to kick the zuck out.
Don't hate them. Cheer them. Cheer them on.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 10 2019, @04:35PM (1 child)
MS buys FB.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Wednesday July 10 2019, @05:54PM
Ooh, ooohh, extinguish, EXTINGUISH!!!
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 4, Funny) by acid andy on Wednesday July 10 2019, @12:50PM (1 child)
Didn't anyone tell them that Farcebook own Instagram yet? Would've been nice if TFA had bothered to mention that, but I guess they'd have had to dig out some Instagram usage stats for that too. Hard work for one article.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 10 2019, @03:54PM
Just another hit piece by the TDS press.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 10 2019, @10:25PM
Here I am, senior citizen...
And I never got around to setting up an account.
Too many damned personal questions.