10% of Facebook users have deleted their account and stopped using the service.
Have you deleted your Facebook account in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal? Tech.pinions, a technology and media research firm, claims that almost 10% of people in the US have done just that.
The firm surveyed 1,000 Americans across age and gender demographics. While not all respondents were Facebook users, a whopping 17% of respondents reported having removed the Facebook app from their smartphones, and 9% had deleted their accounts altogether.
As of January 2018, statistics aggregator Statista reports that Facebook serves roughly 214 million users in the US. So, to put those numbers into better perspective, that means around 36.38 million people in the US have deleted the Facebook phone app, while 19.26 million have deleted their accounts altogether.
We'd be pretty concerned about losing nearly 20 million sets of eyeballs on ads, but according to Tech.pinions, those numbers might not even have Facebook worried.
In its survey, 39% of respondents said they’re now more careful about not only what they post, but what they ‘Like’ and react to on brand pages and within friends’ posts. Meanwhile, 35% claim to be using the social network less than they used to following the data breach.
These numbers should be of real concern to Facebook’s bottom line. As Tech.pinions says, the fact that users that are engaging less with content and brands means they simply aren’t as valuable to companies paying for traffic or buying ads.
Perhaps to stem this supposed tide, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has publicly floated the idea of introducing a paid version of Facebook with zero ads and stronger privacy protections. However, he may want to reconsider, as a massive 59% of survey respondents said that they wouldn't be interested.
The problem with all of this is that, whether you like it or not, it’s growing more and more clear across the internet landscape that, if you’re not paying for the product, then at some level you yourself are the product. So, unless attitudes change toward paying directly for social media and other connected services, there will always be a third party for those services to please (ie advertisers).
Owen Foster
they will come back
Joshua Price
who even uses facebook in 2018? third worlders? most normies i know stopped using facebook in like 2013. facebook's peak was in like 2009 or something.
Owen Garcia
old people
William Price
I did it years ago
Jaxson Young
you mean 30+, only the 20ish something, and teens have leaved Facebook
(+ everyone regardless of age, if they have any sense of privacy and are not Lambs)
Julian Gutierrez
That is why they bougth Wassap
Ryan Jenkins
They should have asked about Whatsapp as well would be hilarious if the same people who became concerned about Facebook don't also delete other services by the same company, which I am sure is what is the case
All you hypocrites boasting about not using Facebook, delete your Whatsapp as well
What's even bad about the data collection? Oh no, internet services serve me better targeted ads! Horrible!
t. proud whatsapp user
Sebastian Ramirez
fake drama created by mass media
Grayson Richardson
never used whatsapp but isnt it worse than Facebok if you just want an sociam media app that functions like Facebook, for your computer, big screen, mouse and keybard, not mobil phone
Joshua Peterson
>tfw already deleted my original account in 2011. >tfw get to school and they requires FB for school's announcement or else I'm gonna missed it.
Aaron Lewis
People who piggyback off messenger.
Camden Butler
I only deleted facebook because it esposed my non existant social life
John Howard
There are shitton of cringy reddit, Jow Forums, lefty/pol/.. meme pages on fb.
Liam Jones
Facebook is just a chatting app I don't even like or read posts
Luis Ross
what is Facebook Alternative? it needs to be similar: read news, discuss news, and shit I dont care about posting selfies
Nicholas Campbell
Everybody uses Facebook, but I agree that most younger people have started using Instagram more.
>10% of Facebook users have deleted their account and stopped using the service. You can't actually delete your Facebook account, though. """Deactivating""" it is the height of the end user's capabilities, which means nothing changes other than the end user's access.
Jace Lewis
I think most people realize this, their info stays on the internet but the point was, they wont be writing anything new there any more
Ryan Jenkins
You can delete it.
facebookdotcom(slash)help(slash)delete_account
Tyler Bailey
I deleted mine mine in 2013
Mason Perez
>implying i ever made one
Benjamin Green
This is good.
John Morris
It's pretty useful in French schools and higher education to organize things you're working on together, or just delegating tasks within a society/association.
Whatsapp is ok at that too, but you can't use it from a computer.
Daniel Morgan
>Whatsapp is ok at that too, but you can't use it from a computer. But it's a hassle to scroll up just to look for the announcements.
Eli Long
What do you mean?
I'll be honest, I don't use whatsapp a lot.
Xavier Peterson
A prof send something in the whatsapp group, hundreds of students spamming inside, literally had to scroll up just to find the whatever prof had said. At least in fb you can see the announcement in one large piece and the unnecessary cluttering mess comments underneath can be ignored.
Owen Ramirez
telegram doesn't have this problem
Alexander Flores
How?
Aiden Cox
The data stays in their servers regardless. So if CIA is creating a database from Facebook data, you're already there and their facial recognition AI can identify you no problem.
Alexander Barnes
Right wing Jow Forums pages are the worst though. Zero self-awareness and somehow even cringer than the average Jow Forumstard or r/The_Donald fag
Kayden Young
No, because people are dependent on messenger and I can't persuade my classmates and my social circle to delete facebook
Oh totally. Group chats are a nightmare anyways. Just normies hopelessly flirting or orbiting, and constant one-upping with "jokes".
It makes me so tired reading through +100 messages to get the gist of what Imissed.
Matthew Hughes
what if I didnt manage to pin it in time, before the hordes of unfunny shit and annoying questions being asked? +100 is still scrollable, Mine was always like 2k++, even you just didn't check them for 20 minutes. That is just in my prof group.
Andrew Campbell
the author of the post can pin it the moment it's sent
Gabriel Cruz
Zuckerberg still owns Instagram and Whatsapp. And unless people start using Tox, Wickr and some hidden chan that know knows, they're still getting monitored.
