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Facebook is losing users
THE JIG MIGHT BE UP for Facebook, which has seen its peak in user signups and is now losing people, according to a report by Inside Facebook.
Facebook now has 687.1 million users, up from the milestone half a billion it recorded in July of last year, but it looks like its phenomenal growth is finally starting to slow, and in some regions the social notworking giant has actually lost users.
Inside Facebook Gold tracks how many Facebook users exist in each country on a monthly basis, and it discovered that during May the US Facebook userbase dropped from 155.2 million to just below 149.4 million.
A fall of 5.8 million users in the space of a month is significant, especially in a key country like the US, but Facebook managed to record overall growth throughout the world of 11.8 million.
The problem for Facebook is that this is lower growth than the 13.9 million in April and the roughly 20 million it gained for each month before that, suggesting a significant slowdown in user uptake across the globe, which could be linked to the drop in users in countries like the US.
The US was not the only country to lose Facebook users. Canada dropped from 18.1 million users to 16.2 million, a drop of 1.52 million. Russia, Norway and the UK have also seen declines of over 100,000 users, suggesting that things might also be beginning to peak in Europe for Facebook.
Despite the figures Inside Facebook found, which are based on Facebook's own advertising tool, the company said that it was still growing in many of these regions.
Some reports back up Inside Facebook's findings, while others show high growth instead, but the consensus generally appears to be that Facebook is not doing quite as well this year compared to 2010. µ
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In a professional environment with a significant amount of responsibility, everyone using facebook on company infrastructure needs a good spanking.
Private users, who wish to "stay in touch" with their loved ones next door or on the other side of the planet should make up a majority of the meanwhile less 'elite' concept of facebook 2011. Thing is, these are the same people that usually have no clue how they keep getting infected with, say, MyWebSearch, Vundo or AIDS. A non-scientific first attempt of an evaluation of attack vectors that brought hours upon hours of fear, system instabilities and mayhem in the past 12 months pointed mainly to facebook, its chat function and a growing number of users that are either evil, somewhat stupid, or just made-up fronts to spread the malware fun, all of them actively forwarding malware or extracting user information in an automated fashion or through the facebook flavour of social engineering.
Most people somehow manage to not realize how much personal information "app developers" - if that's really a fitting label for what it is they do on facebook - demand to get access to, from the dubious and unknown to the biggest names in the business, it seems.
Most of these ignorant and victimized facebook users who eventually realize how much of their "personal" data they've been sharing with, say, their favourite newspaper, their email service provider or the maker of that annoying game they never play basically tend to lock up or they switch into fight-or-flight patterns, like the cornered white rabbits that they are. In the end, it makes them not feel very good about facebook, really. And I can't blame them.
Just one thing to bare in mind as well is that there's been a significant drive within Facebook to delete fake accounts (spam etc) and accounts previously set up by developers to test theirs fb apps. FB has since provided actual developer accounts so that devs don't need to create fake ones and these are not counted as actual users. Although I doubt this would account for a 5 million drop it may be a large portion of it.
One population segment is still growing, and they approach Facebook from a different perspective.
According to a somewhat fairly recent HowsThatAgain.con study titled "90 Is the New 82," it turns out that the fastest expanding demographic on Facebook is the nonagenarian crowd, specifically left-handed ninety year olds who are cat owners and still like to read mysteries.
More details are at the whimsical Thinking Out Loud,
http://marperl.blogspot.com/2010/06/look-whos-using-facebook.html
I NEVER GOT AROUND TO WATCHING "FRIENDS" EITHER, I GUESS I MISSED THAT BANDWAGON TOO. SIGH.
Exactly, the bubble is getting big again. Hope the investors are wise enough to convert their cash into gold or precious jewels.
Facebook in sudden shock news that nothing lasts for ever and the world can't continually grow for infinity.
Going back to the extreme value Goldman Sachs placed on FaceBook, I think many investors might be glad they didn't buy a piece. Sorry for those that did.
I wonder how they will value it now.
Also, that only seems to count people who actually close their accounts. What about dormant accounts. Accounts created as jokes or where people have just stopped using FaceBook. My account still exists, but I haven't been on in a year.
I would love to see how many unique users have been logged on at least once over the past 3 months and measure that over time.
Am I the only one who misread the headline?
I think smartphones will help shore up facebook's userbase. Have you seen how easy it is to make an ass of yourself and put it straight on facebook?
Finally, over half a billion idiots are beginning to grow their braincells back.
There *is* hope for humanity.....maybe
Have not jumped on the facebook yet.. but exposing all private detail on default.. and with all security problems from the start i never will. I there is some other "facebook that does all better I go there.
Some days there has to be good news.
Aside from thinking you are being private with 500 of your closest friends, aside from being marketed and profiled every which way, FB is boring.
There is some initial enthusiasm as you connect with people, but that quickly fades as people dump a dozens of updates per day. Multiply that by a few hundred friends, and ... well, there is no way you are going to keep up with that - so most of it is just pissin' in the wind.
Besides, how many times can you poke someone before it starts getting old?
It doesn't take long for a good idea to get screwed when one lets the corporations take over. I jumped ship long ago, the writing was on the wall. Its like anything else if you stray to far from your roots , you lose it.
It's no surprise people are leaving facebook, especially with all the privacy concerns.
I will be writing an article about it soon on my blog; crackberrynews.blogspot.com