You make a fair point, I said that just from an empirical standpoint. As in, at the beginning of 2014 only a couple people didn't want to use Facebook and mainly because of dissident/im-not-like-everybody-else reasons (i.e. everybody was there, so much that there were even some reluctant to join). At the beginning of this year, probably 4 out of 10 of the people I meet do not have significant activity w/ the site, and the reasons are more substantial, like in 'because I don't like it anymore' (i.e. not everybody is in there anymore, and now people is instead reluctant of staying there). That's unprecedented and me and those people are exactly the demographic that drives the gain or fail behind these things.

> You make a fair point, I said that just from an empirical standpoint.

Usually when people use the word "empirically" it means they have some actual empirical evidence to bring to the table, not just random anecdotes.

If 40% of any segment of Facebook customers had substantially reduced their usage in the past year, that would indeed be unprecedented. I don't see a shred of evidence to support that supposition though.

But that's what empirical means...

It is what I saw in the past year, but you are right, I can't provide a completely verifiable and correct statistic to support my argument. Neither is it going to exist, because I don't think Facebook will ever state 'yes, we are going out of business'.

Must be hard to live your life based only on actual evidence all the time man. I can't imagine how much time do you invest verifying everything. Kudos for that.

well likely those people realized that all facebook really is a medium to exhibit your ego and that it's shallow and for narcissist. nobody posts facebook about what's really going on with their lives. nobody instragrams about things that makes them look bad.