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People stick with Facebook
DESPITE SUGGESTIONS to the contrary, the majority of Facebook users seem to be perfectly happy with the social notworking service. Or at least, they're not leaving it.
We assume this is because the quit Facebook day was not as popular as some might have thought. Despite Facebook being to privacy what pins are to balloon longevity, only about 30,000 people decided to dump the site, roughly the population of West Somerset.
At press time the site had roughly 35,000 confirmed quitters. However, it's roughly three days since the actual quit Facebook day, making the running counter something of a misnomer.
The site had some worthy aims of course, and in launching it the creators wrote, "The cumulative effects of what Facebook does now will not play out well in the future, and we care deeply about the future of the web as an open, safe and human place. We just can't see Facebook's current direction being aligned with any positive future for the web, so we're leaving."
Once they decided to leave they felt that everyone else should follow their lead and set up their own non-social networking group to create a sort of groundswell of ill-feeling.
But, with the desire to stalk ex-girlfriends, snoop on sort-of friends photos, and 'like' stupid Youtube videos, all still some of the world's greatest pastimes, people have chosen to ignore that advice and stick with the site. Or maybe they're just lazy gits.
Of course, it isn't easy to quit Facebook. This isn't because it is as mercilessly addictive as, say, crack cocaine, but because Facebook has decided to make it so. Users cannot actually 'quit', they can only 'deactivate' and deactivated accounts can be reignited as quickly as a warehouse full of sawdust and kindling. So perhaps this has had some sort of impact.
We asked some Facebook users what they thought about it, but instead of answering they sent us to a link of a cat throwing up candy floss, and a version of a Lady Gaga song performed by a man in a dress, telling us all we didn't need to know about Facebook and its users in two simple moves.
However, for the record, we still think that, for individuals, having a page on Facebook is a bad idea. But maybe that's just us. µ
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I have family all over the world and Facebook was a great place to find them.
I am annoyed about Facebook changes and have been protesting for the last month.
I just don't see leaving as a solution. It' s a lose-lose proposition. They lose a customer and I lose the service.
But in the end, once a similar service with a good privacy policy arise, I will be leaving FB.
I have family all over the world and Facebook was a great place to find them.
I am annoyed about Facebook changes and have been protesting for the last month.
I just don't see leaving as a solution. It' s a lose-lose proposition. They lose a customer and I lose the service.
But in the end, once a similar service with a good privacy policy arise, I will be leaving FB.
It's the Internet. As you highlighted there are apps and programs that can open your PC wide. The Flash and Reader malicious guard droppers.
People on Facebook share more with 300 million strangers than they would with a human being standing on their doorstep with a clipboard and survey he wants to complete.
They're not all wide-eyed innocents believing the net to be a safe playground as the media would have us believe.
It's almost insulting that most of the media stories made Facebook out to be this all-knowing monster, but were really more successful in making the FB user out to be dullard sheep, bleating away and looking for a media shepherd. Like they're the unthinking and controlled masses of Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Most aren't stupid, get it, and don't care. End of story. I hold myself accountable for any information I provide online. :)
Not until Big Z decides to revert your privacy settings, that is.
And the problem some people have with FaceBook is that the "basic, *basic* privacy settings" (sic) are apparently about as reliable as a temperamental WinME flash app.
But I'm happy for you that you have no privacy concerns.
"We assume this is because the quit Facebook day was not as popular as some might have thought."
Should better assume that media hype didn't impact users despite bombarding every web page and, at least, pretty much every newspaper in my country.
When I buy a video game these days often I have to sign up to a service such as Windows Live, or as with GTA4 the Rockstar Social Club. These programs monitor my time spent online, games I spend the most time on, content I download, achievements I go for, same with the friends I have on it... etc.
A social networking website using my details to direct ads my way, or providing my details for other companies to use in market research or whatever... I don't care. I spend time online, it's no secret. I live in England, my brother is so-and-so, my sister is so-and-so, I attend these kinds of gigs, listen to this type of music... who cares?
People looking at my pictures exist in a list of FB users I allow to see my pictures, the others exist in a list that does not have access. Anyone dumb enough to not be aware that their pictures and information is accessible to all and sundry need to use the basic, *basic* privacy settings.
Media hype suggests this is difficult and time consuming... it is not. Media hype suggests FB will take a hit for this and that, it did not.
The media should get a sense of what is really going on, and what the genuine reaction to it is, before trying to generate a story.
Why do you include a share feature on your own site that includes facebook. If you disagree with it and think people should delete their accounts, then you should delete your buttons, yes?
personally i like facebook but i think you are being a bit hipocritical as by having it you are encoraging people to have a facebook page.
Just because I haven't left Facebook doesn't mean I don't hate it's guts. The pros slightly outweigh the cons at the moment, but I'm watching these untrustworthy boogers like a pointy-beaked bird of prey.