Alpha1 saidYes; I'm seriously considering deleting my account, permanently. It was grand for social networking in college, but now that I'm out of school, I might spend 15 seconds on Facebook everyday - that is just to check for emails that never arrive. No one talks to me/communicates with me via Facebook anymore. I find updates I get through the History International and Military Channel's 'like' features helpful since I like to watch them so much, but beyond that, I don't really "use" Facebook for anything.
shredcutback saidThe reason I cancelled my facebook account years ago was because I wanted to have personal relationships with people in my life and felt like I was having a relationship with my computer and the computer was just telling me about my friends. And I didn't really like this.
I get that facebook is not going away and people are going to use it like it is their lifeline to the world, but who's going to be running that world when those same people are too scared of confrontation and interpersonal relationships because all they know is interfacing with media devices that don't have opinions or respond back? How many times has someone emailed me or texted me something that they would be too scared to say to my face? People are losing their humanity and we are literally witnessing an entire generation maturing into a norm of socially deficient, scared people. Its sad really.
shredcutback saidThe reason I cancelled my facebook account years ago was because I wanted to have personal relationships with people in my life and felt like I was having a relationship with my computer and the computer was just telling me about my friends. And I didn't really like this.
I get that facebook is not going away and people are going to use it like it is their lifeline to the world, but who's going to be running that world when those same people are too scared of confrontation and interpersonal relationships because all they know is interfacing with media devices that don't have opinions or respond back? How many times has someone emailed me or texted me something that they would be too scared to say to my face? People are losing their humanity and we are literally witnessing an entire generation maturing into a norm of socially deficient, scared people. Its sad really.
endo saidThis is what I do for a living, so if I could clarify...
Facebook does not reveal its user numbers except on rare occasions, such as crossing the 150 million users mark. So this report is an extrapolation of data based on third-party tools. It's not official by any means.
The key phrase is "active users" which means people who are actively using the site. It's not people who are opening and closing their Facebook accounts. And nearly every site on the web (except maybe movie ticket sites?) will tell you that that active use goes down in the summer months. People spend less time online and more time outdoors.
And furthermore, while Facebook may have settled into routines like the rest of the web here in the U.S., it is still rapidly expanding in the rest of the world and moving into huge markets like Brazil and India.
Facebook ain't going away. This is not Myspace.
charlitos saidlast time I checked I still had 300 friends so it seems like so far nobody i know of that has facebook has actually closed their account.
1 - I wont be the first one closing my account
2 - It took way too many years to have a decently organized online photo album with a bunch of friends tagged on each picture.
3 - I need to know when my university friends post any pictures or videos of me from 2 years ago that they just happened to find in their hard drive.
4 - Sometimes I feel like I should tell my 300 friends that Im feeling sick through my facebook status.
5 - I need an easy way to know when friend's birthday is
6 - Stop believing all the crap(taken out of proportions) the media uploads on their shitty nearly dis-functional websites. Facebook isnt going anywhere.
pursuits24 saidSince I go away to university, Facebook is an excellent tool for keeping in touch with my family at home, and vice versa with my friends during the summer. Its a great way to maintain familiarity with someone elses life when you are physically distant. For now, I love it and check it multiple times a day. In the future, I expect this trend to change as I settle down and establish my relationships in a more local environment.
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