Facebook is facing an existential crisis ... been trying to warn kats about Facebook for a Year Now
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Facebook has 2.5 billion monthly users, worldwide. 2.8 millon is a rounding error. And how many of those 2.8 million use whatsapp or IG? I'm willing to bet 90% of them. They're not really losing them. They're just using other FB owned platforms. The reality is with Evan running Snapchat into the ground, facebook is one of the safest bets in tech.
Facebook isn't going anywhere until the next paradigm shift in communications happens (and even though.. I'm betting on Zuckerberg just buying his way into the space).
i just had an epiphany.
FB going away right now would be like Walmart all of the sudden going away.
its just not realistic. they both command far too much market share right now and are too heavily ingrained in society. they both have far too much market share to all of the sudden just stop mattering.
even the major companies that went away suffered painful slow deaths.
i forgot to mention blockbuster. lol
please go away. u have no idea what you are talking about.
I'm just telling you what I see Fam........ Its going to be awhile, but facebook has problems.
The goal of this post is mainly to point out that Facebook is at a point where it has to change what it's doing to continue......
I'm speaking facts
thanks for the numbers. i am working while doing this and didn't have time to find empirical evidence.
if you understood facts you would know that instagram is owned by fb and the point u made is really not prudent.
I already know this. But Instagram does have more active users than Facebook.
Facebook is fine. They'll just by anything that's competitive in the youth market. Social media is no longer a high growth industry in most markets so no one expects mega growth anymore. They're highly profitable and have no direct competition. They have nothing to worry about because there is nowhere else to do.
Theeir only real threat is user apathy and/or a transformational technology that makes social obsolete...but they always buy their way in.. like they did with Oculus.
Facebook is one of the most well-run companies in the world. Their market isn't going anywhere and no one else is certainly going to own it. There are this generation's Microsoft. What they'll try to do is buy there way into anything that has the potential to assault their core business (like did they with Whatsapp and IG..and what they tried to do with Snapchat).
The core product sucks (On Fb) but it serves the purpose for most people.
As long as they continue to buy the emerging brands that matter, they'll continue to dominate the space.
Yeah. That's a good example. We're talking decades.
This is true for now, but if another billionaire finds someone with a greater product than Facebook and buys it before Mark Zuckerberg gets to it then that's when Facebook will have a problem.
I agree with you!! FB wont end overnight, but its on that path!!
Soon FB is gonna be wide open!
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I have the bare minimum on facebook. Name, age, school. I have accepted requests for people to be listed as family, which is the only thing I didn't really want to do. I really only use it for groups and product pages of businesses I'm interested in. I don't participate in the political groups, though I will have political discussions in groups related to podcasts outside of facebook.
All those quizzes, things wanting to know my favorite color, and asking to choose stuff based on my name or birthdate I figure can be used to data mine, so I don't participate. I don't play games on there, and I reject requests for games. I put only what I need to to keep up with friends and family that I want to know are alive and doing well, but don't want to deal with or hold a conversation with otherwise. Privacy settings are friends only, none of that friends of friends mess. If there is a contest I enter that I have to fill out info for, I revoke access after it's over. I have to be somewhat PC on facebook. Twitter is the platform I truly love, tho I haven't been active as much, and there are less than 10 people I'm friends with that I know in "real life", and of those maybe two that didn't spring up from online friendships from BGOL or the old AOL chat rooms. I used to have my pic on my twitter profile, but I took that down, and took my profile picture down from facebook.
All those quizzes, things wanting to know my favorite color, and asking to choose stuff based on my name or birthdate I figure can be used to data mine, so I don't participate. I don't play games on there, and I reject requests for games. I put only what I need to to keep up with friends and family that I want to know are alive and doing well, but don't want to deal with or hold a conversation with otherwise. Privacy settings are friends only, none of that friends of friends mess. If there is a contest I enter that I have to fill out info for, I revoke access after it's over. I have to be somewhat PC on facebook. Twitter is the platform I truly love, tho I haven't been active as much, and there are less than 10 people I'm friends with that I know in "real life", and of those maybe two that didn't spring up from online friendships from BGOL or the old AOL chat rooms. I used to have my pic on my twitter profile, but I took that down, and took my profile picture down from facebook.
I logged off two months ago. There was a lot of political bullshit and people posting fake shit all the time and actually believing it.
Now I think I might deactivate my account, I knew it was privacy issues before but now this shit is out of control.
I think about logging off but then I don’t want to see myself in pics and shit that I don’t have a chance to review or flag.
It’s to the point nowadays that I don’t pose for pics with folks and politely decline taking pics, even with family and friends, because as soon as you finish the shit is up on Facebook. So if you’re out of town, across town; don’t want folks to know your every move; hard as fuck when every move you make is out on display.
I also keep pics of my kid off FB and have had to go off on folks for putting those type of pics up there.
End of the day most of the content, even the RIP such and such type of posts, is completely self-serving and narcissistic.
Lost interest in FB around 2010/11.
It has long felt like a high school 2.0 popularity contest.
People documenting their every move on there. Thousands of photos. No value in personal privacy. Anything for a like, comment, or share.
No thanks. Not of interest.
It has long felt like a high school 2.0 popularity contest.
People documenting their every move on there. Thousands of photos. No value in personal privacy. Anything for a like, comment, or share.
No thanks. Not of interest.
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Data Mining in this age is a bitch. How many sources have been able to collect your personal info to habits to web history to affliations to bgol comments etc on the net?
Sure FB is a big source of that collection. But the reality is the moment you got an ISP and “surfed” on the net you were compromised.
Thus if you are targeted for whatever reason and you’ve use the “internet” you’re already screwed. Note at didn’t limit that to just FB.
I noticed some said they “deleted” their FB account years ago. Sarcastically, I guess that means they are “safe” now.
Sure FB is a big source of that collection. But the reality is the moment you got an ISP and “surfed” on the net you were compromised.
Thus if you are targeted for whatever reason and you’ve use the “internet” you’re already screwed. Note at didn’t limit that to just FB.
I noticed some said they “deleted” their FB account years ago. Sarcastically, I guess that means they are “safe” now.
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Use it mainly to keep up with my peeps. I'm not keeping up with 20 year olders unless they're family. Social media is dangerous and nothing good comes from it if you're not marketing something. I get a kick out of it when folks be like "I didn't know you were married with 2 kids" Let's me know that keeping my business off the air is working. If you know me, you know me and know that I have a family and been married for 10+ years. Real friends don't need facebook to keep up with you, surface acquaintances do. At the end of the day I feel like its a shit load of showing out. Showing my crib, my car, my shoes, my fucking meal (really?), not enough folks posting real progressive shit or thought provoking material. Get some random female friends posting some homo dancing to track and doing that back breaking shit, hate that shit. Or some dude posting gym photos over and over and unfollow.. Nigga you married why you postin yo workout videos online? Bitch you married why u got your cleavage in each and every photo. Shit invites problems. I stop posting about 4 years ago. plus the political view and repeat of shit. Trying to convince the convinced. Shitty ass arguments and FB beefs. Just tired of it.
I'd be willing to wager that the decline is due to kids using IG instead of FB.
FB bought out the competition in IG so they've got another few generations of users that will upload their data to servers they don't control.
Facebook has more personal data than Google! They don’t even have to search for it. We give it to em. I’m buylng share of it goes lower than this.
Facebook marketing is becoming just as good as Google Adwords. They are not going any where
Facebook will be around for awhile....the average person doesn't care about privacy and breaches and shit like that.It's too many people hooked on facebook and being online period,it's a drug and it has us all hooked in some way shape or form.Looking at other's having other's look at us,searching,researching,reading and watching video's.....which is the next new thing,VIDEO youtube is cleaning house cause everyone wants to be paid for so-called content most of it isn't worth a penny but the company that can come with the same simple search format as youtube and offer to pay them for their content no matter how their sponsers feel about some of it will be crowned the new platform that holds it.....
People want to be seen,people want to be heard,for what that's up for you to decide but they want a place for all of that and more and youtube isn't providing that openly anymore and granted they shouldn't because most of it is bullshit,you can't pay people for bullshit or copying and pasting content,not enough money in the world.
I don't fuck with facebook,after I had to hurt some feelings of some relatives of mines who were lying and pretending to be balling in a new state when actually they were working at walmart,riding a bike and getting extorted by another family member every other pay day they fucked up some pill money.......I was the devil and everything in the book but a liar so lol.
People want to be seen,people want to be heard,for what that's up for you to decide but they want a place for all of that and more and youtube isn't providing that openly anymore and granted they shouldn't because most of it is bullshit,you can't pay people for bullshit or copying and pasting content,not enough money in the world.
I don't fuck with facebook,after I had to hurt some feelings of some relatives of mines who were lying and pretending to be balling in a new state when actually they were working at walmart,riding a bike and getting extorted by another family member every other pay day they fucked up some pill money.......I was the devil and everything in the book but a liar so lol.
I don’t think the average joe truly understands the danger of invasion of privacy.
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