Posted on 06/14/2011 5:20:08 AM PDT by upchuck
Facebook is approaching 700 million members but its growth is slowing and it lost users in the United States and Canada last month, the Inside Facebook website said Monday.
Facebook had 687 million members at the start of June, said Inside Facebook, which closely tracks developments and trends at the Palo Alto, California-based social network.
Inside Facebook said overall growth at the social networking giant "has been lower than normal for the second month straight, which is unusual."
The United States lost nearly six million users in May, Inside Facebook said, falling from 155.2 million at the start of May to 149.4 million at the end of it.
(Excerpt) Read more at myfoxny.com ...
Facebook regularly screws over their users: Facebook facial recognition technology sparks renewed concerns. Maybe folks are getting tired of it.
Related articles: Facebook fatigue sets in for 100,000 Brits: Users bored with site deactivate accounts amid privacy fears and Facebook loses 1.5 million users in Canada.
Note: Drudge was the source for all of this.
I’ve had it!
I quit Facebook this morning...the face recognition fiasco clinched the termination for me.
I love FB. As for my privacy, there is so much of our personal information everywhere, from the grocery store to our employer to other websites. I don’t care. I enjoy staying in touch with family and friends and even discussing politics with others who I don’t know. There are a lot of conservatives on FB. I have “friends” from different countries. I like to see what they think about things. Love seeing pics from family and friends. And I get updates from Allen West!
It’s funny to see people quit Facebook over privacy concerns. It’s like eating a McDonald’s for years but quitting because they serve meat.
Most of my friends quit Facebook because they weren’t smart enough to handle it. Facebook is daunting for naive people. They would get infected by viruses because their vanity wouldn’t allow them to pass over tempting links. “See who is searching for you” got a lot of people I know and still does outside of Facebook. Vanity, oh, vanity.
Found a lot of old high school classmates I hadn't heard from or seen in over 40 years. And a lot of old girlfriends from 40 years ago as well.
Then, it dawned on me, there is a reason why it has been over 40 years.
Goodbye FB.
Pardon, I guess you know that you can't "quit" FB. FB is like the Hotel California in the Eagles song. You can check in but you can never check out.
You can deactivate your account. But your info and what you've posted, etc. belongs to FB forever.
Same with me, but in my case it was more like 20 years. My first reaction was, "Wow I can see and talk to all these people I haven't seen since I graduated high school and went off to college!" then after about a month of reading in extreme detail about their kids, medical issues, relationship problems, vacations etc. I remembered there was a reason I moved away 20 years before and if I wanted a blast of nostalgia I should have just gone to the class reunion and been done with them for another 20 years. There is a lot of truth to the old saying that familiarity breeds contempt...
“they” can’t resist trying to diddle with the free association of people...
I would not buy the FB IPO. I do believe that social networking will continue to grow as a whole but, like the cable tv universe, it will splinter into smaller units that cater to specific interests. Right now, FB is doing some really stupid things to piss off conservatives. There have been numerous situations where conservatives have had their sites and pages taken downs because of Leftist complaints. This is no surprise as the founder, zit faced Zucker-whatever, is a thru and thru Leftist. He recently gave zero a free marketing gig with his one sided town hall. Meanwhile, the hate filled Left on FB is usually left undisturbed.
Maybe we could have conservative social network that works as well as Facebook.
One of the items on the agenda of the New World Order folks is concern about Too Much Internet Freedom and how they might proceed to limit Internet Freedom.
Movements like Tea Party Express and Tea Party are probably hurting these folks, and the Internet has been a means for Tea Party/Tea Party Express to move forward.
That's pretty impressive, especially considering most free resources on the web I just abandon rather than formally quit. I have no idea how many Hotmail or Yahoo accounts I have set up for a single use and then forgot about afterward. How many more people just stopped using Facebook rather delete their accounts.
I find facebook useful for keeping up with an extended family scattered across our great nation. However, I have been getting concern with the way facebook has been tracking me.
I make a comment about a city and the next thing I know there are ads featuring that city on my page. The only way they can do that is by “reading” what I write.
I know it is too late to retrieve everything I have posted on facebook but I have removed all photos, all notes, all messages.
I will become a lurker on facebook following the activities of others but no longer contributing. When I am tagged in someone’s posted photo I will remove my name from the tag.
It is one of the things we all will need to learn to balance. It is not private (even posting on free republic) if you use the internet to communicate. The problem is the Internet has become almost too useful to give up.
(Do a goggle search on your screen name, you are in someone’s database.)
If they lost all the kids under 13 who lied about their age to sign up, they’d lose another million
People using their time for finding jobs, not friends...........
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