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Exclusive: Britons abandon Facebook as usage plummets by more than a third
Telegraph UK ^

Posted on 07/06/2019 7:21:59 PM PDT by ameribbean expat

The amount Brits are using Facebook has plunged by more than a third over the past 12 months, new research indicates, in sharp contrast to the company’s official statistics. The number of online interactions made on Facebook’s mobile app in the UK plummeted by 38pc between June 2018 and June 2019, according to the analytics firm Mixpanel.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: britain; chat; facebook; fbook; internet; technotyranny
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Trump's fault.
1 posted on 07/06/2019 7:21:59 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
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To: ameribbean expat

EVERYONE needs to abandon Fecebook.

Every log in provides wealth to use against US.


2 posted on 07/06/2019 7:24:07 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: upchuck

Ping.


3 posted on 07/06/2019 7:25:13 PM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

yep. I go to my page about once a month will attempt to close down completely soon.


4 posted on 07/06/2019 7:26:53 PM PDT by magna carta
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To: ameribbean expat

The UK has hate speech laws. Social media introduces liability. Easy to see why a Brit wouldn’t post on a site hitched to their name.


5 posted on 07/06/2019 7:27:13 PM PDT by Bogey78O (So far so good.)
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...... Conservatives need to do the same thing ......

..... Useful Idiots need to be brought to their knees ....

6 posted on 07/06/2019 7:27:45 PM PDT by R_Kangel ("A nation of sheep will beget a nation ruled by wolves")
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To: ameribbean expat

Book face always was a waste of time...


7 posted on 07/06/2019 7:28:01 PM PDT by northislander
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To: ameribbean expat

Probably the mandatory Luv-a-Muzz laws there and since there is nothing good to say about their presence in the UK the fakebook activity is in the dirt.

Stupid laws have Unintended Consequences.

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8 posted on 07/06/2019 7:28:39 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: ameribbean expat

I’ve followed social media since BBS days. Such sites have a finite life cycle. Unstoppable juggernauts disappear almost overnight, forgotten, replaced by the next new sites. Facebook, Twitter, etc are not exempt.


9 posted on 07/06/2019 7:29:50 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (The Red Queen wasn't kidding.)
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To: ameribbean expat

For a great expose of techno-centric Liberal Oligarchal Capitalism, see THIS link.

10 posted on 07/06/2019 7:35:40 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: ameribbean expat

I now use Facebook to keep in touch with family via private messaging. I no longer post or follow other people. When you can’t even discuss history because it may offend someone you know the site is 100% agenda driven, and as Marxists are the only ones who wish to erase history it is easy to say what FB wants.


11 posted on 07/06/2019 7:36:35 PM PDT by LukeL
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Unfortunately, Fakebook is a quite useful means for me to stay in touch with West Point classmates. It used to be crucial for communicating with the youth in my church. That is no longer the case so much as teenagers are moving way from Fakebook.

What I could do without is the moral preening and virtue signaling of my Libtard friends. Logging on to Fakebook presents the risk of elevated blood pressure, a pain-inducing facepalm on my part, or the unbearable urge to troll them with a truth bomb that will harm our personal relationship.

12 posted on 07/06/2019 7:37:06 PM PDT by Lysandru
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To: ameribbean expat

Stole his business idea

Stole all the shares from his BEST friend

Secretly sold users’ data

Stated in a confidential email to a friend that people who trust him are "dumb-f*cks".

Married in the community proprety state of California, the very day AFTER he took Facebook public.

Requested nude photos of users to “protect them against the risk of revenge porn”.

Secretly tried to get hospitals to release vast stores of patient data “so I can help cure diseases”.

Initially pursued total rights ownership of images uploaded to FB; if you'd been photoed as a happy youth with, say, a can of Coors then later got really famous, Zuck could be paid by Coors for zero work and YOUR old photo in a new ad while you, the centerpiece of the ad, would get NOTHING. Struck down after lengthy legal battles.

De-platformed numerous Conservatives because he didn't agree with their views, couldn't define hate-speech when asked by Congress.

Secretly requested banks give him his users' financial data, including transactions, so “my users can check their balances on my site."

Digitally permitted his housing advertisers to filter out customers whose search histories were strongly associated with terms like "handicapped" , "mobility scooter" and "guidedog".

Admonished that people "build bridges instead of walls", all while building walls around his Palo Alto homes and around the huge Kauai Estate he bought and then threw the Hawaiians off of, an effort requiring 300 seperate lawsuits against local Hawaiian land claimants.

Established a "trustworthiness index" for ALL his facebook users while disclosing it to none of them.

Altered FB algorithms to flag content from conservative publications as spam.

Revered Augustus Caesar, leader of Rome who assured 200 years of peace via harsh rule, possibly arranging the execution of his own grandson. On a wedding anniversary trip to Rome, Zuck gushed so effusively over sculptures and monuments dedicated to Augustus that his wife joked that three people, not two, were on their trip.

For years, Zuck traditionally closed high-level Facebook executive meetings by shouting, "DOMINATION..!", perhaps half-jokingly.

Proposed installation in the homes of FB users special Facebook cameras that would monitor users and follow them around as they went about their private lives inside their homes. But the cameras, Zuckerberg assured, would come with privacy settings which Facebook would, like, totally respect, or something.

Asked for user telephone numbers for 2 factor authentication but within weeks used that data for marketing purposes. If users chose to share their entire contact list, Facebook also shared that data with advertisers, even phone numbers of people who NEVER had a facebook account. After the Cambridge Analytica scandal, FB pleged to reinvigorate user privacy but neither of these practices has stopped.

In the runup to the 2018 midterm elections, FB removed over 800 conservative political pages and accounts in a clamp down on what the social media company arbitrarily termed, “inauthentic behavior”. The ambitious political move affected 66 million FB users, most of them Conservative.

Permitted the search term "white genocide" to be used as a targeting criterion to aim advertising for products at 170,000 users who interacted with that subject.

When at their SF HQ in 2016 FB employees replaced a mural slogal, "Black Lives Matter" with the words, "All Lives Matter", Zuck returned the slogan to its original and reprimanded the employees as, "malicious and disrespectful".

In South Sudan in late Nov. 2018, Facebook permitted the auctioning of a CHILD BRIDE, age 16. The girl was sold for 500 cows, 3 cars and $10,000 and went into hiding. Five men, including some "high-ranking government officials," bid on the girl, according to Children's rights organization Plan International. At the same time it was revealed that Mexican child molesters had been using Facebook's Messenger app to collude regarding available kids and ongoing grooming prospects.


13 posted on 07/06/2019 7:37:39 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Never bought into the premise in the first place.

I went over and locked down DoughtyOne over a decade ago, and left.

I do go back to clear out my inbox every three months or so.

I try not to let folks know I did.

The last thing I want is someone thinking I actually show up there.


14 posted on 07/06/2019 7:40:40 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (This space for rent...)
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To: ameribbean expat

rut roh


15 posted on 07/06/2019 7:42:29 PM PDT by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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To: ameribbean expat

Zuckerberg was featured in “Killing Eve”. Under another name. Villanelle (and MI6) got him.

The ‘media company’ he ran had been weaponized, just like Facebook and Google and Twitter and Yahoo, and a few others.


16 posted on 07/06/2019 7:45:09 PM PDT by adorno
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Looks like they’re catching on to the fact that it’s a data mine for the government that hates it’s subjects...


17 posted on 07/06/2019 7:46:38 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

I only go to let friends know I’m still alive and to check neighborhood page. Time spent is around a minute


18 posted on 07/06/2019 7:57:36 PM PDT by McGavin999 (injustice Roberts to taxpayer. Shut up and pay peons, you donÂ’t need to know who gets your money)
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Woo hoo!

My vision for the future — Mark Zuckerberg cleaning toilets for a living.


19 posted on 07/06/2019 8:00:56 PM PDT by Nothingburger
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Note the pathetic justifications from the users on this thread.


20 posted on 07/06/2019 8:09:11 PM PDT by coaster123 (Trump fights for you. Fight for him.)
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