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Re:Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook by lozaning on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @02:09PM (#17920498)
I wonder what percentage of those people who removed the app still use the platform though. Anecdotally almost everyone I know has uninstalled the app in favor of the webclient. It's usually faster, has less tracking shit, and doesnt eat battery like their native app does.
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Re:Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook by gervase on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @02:13PM (#17920530)
I'm a little surprised they didn't even bother to ask if anyone stopped using FB (i.e. "deleted their account") completely. "Deleting the app from your phone" is a pretty poor proxy for "I reduced usage of FB" in my view.
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Re:Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook by danbolt on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @02:40PM (#17920795)
Half of my friends have done the same and migrated to the web client. If Facebook is going to hog memory and show data-chugging videos, it might as well do it in a JavaScriptCore VM context so I can stop it when I want to.
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Re:Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook by davchana on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @02:31PM (#17920709)
I, although not in US, a year ago deleted the app because I was wasting too much time on Facebook feed, & also used its web client maybe only 2-3 times since then.
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Re:Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook by mclehman on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @05:08PM (#17921942)
Bringing out my own anecdata, everyone I know who deleted the app did it in the process of abandoning the platform itself. It wouldn't surprise me that the web client is gaining in relative popularity though.
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