Re:Facebook lost around 2.8M U.S. users under 25 last year
by bischofs on Monday February 12, 2018 @03:02PM
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Just like anything - the techies and first adopters tend to set the trends. If the HN crowd thinks its useless then it will start to trickle down to Normies, might take awhile though.
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Re:Facebook lost around 2.8M U.S. users under 25 last year
by adventured on Monday February 12, 2018 @03:20PM
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I've noticed as a techie that I've actually run behind a batch of what you call normies, that decided to quit or entirely restrict their FB activity many years ago due to unwanted social drama / conflict.
About ~8-10% of my Facebook friends quit over a four or five year span. Typically not long after joining Facebook and beginning to contribute (within a year or so). Those accounts have all just been sitting there quasi-dead with blank images, for many years (although they're still on my friends list, and no doubt counted by FB as a user (but not a MAU)). None of them have ever come back alive.