Facebook traffic declining?

Probably depends on the person and probably not the best place to find answers. It generally seems people here are older and more wary of their online presence than the average person.

I use Facebook significantly less than I did a year ago because a year ago I was in college. Even just being 23 with still a decent amount of friends in college, there's just less of a need and desire to use it. I'd dump it entirely if not for too many people still not having gmail for gchat so having to use Facebook chat and then the occasional events. Nothing is easier than a Facebook event.

Have you got a source for the traffic declining in America, Canada and the UK? I hope this is true and the trend continues.

it's because of the new privacy settings. not everyone's everything shows up in your feed now. It's a good thing

I use Facebook. All my relatives are on it and it's annoying because I get spammed with bible verses nonstop. Other than that it's the same 10 people responsible for 90% of the news feed.

I can't prove it but I have a feeling these social networks are short-lived by nature. First Friendster, then Myspace, then Facebook and I think something new will eventually come out and knock Facebook off its throne. I thought it would be Google Plus but it seems like Google doesn't really care competing in that space because they just let all the momentum die.

FB is a huge platform for ads so I can see how it merits an IPO. Unless FB expanded into other markets though, I wouldn't invest long term. Actually I'm curious what their plan for long-term profitability is because I have no clue what they expect to happen once they go public.

Bible verses, ha. I bite my tongue at every cute baby or cat video, too. They're always really shaky and dark.

Theres nothing to keep me going to facebook, the only reason I have it is because of relatives and old friends. I find twitter to be much more informative because I just follow organizations I care about.

Reach9 said:

well this stat was a year ago, but i know that the recent timeline thing has really pissed a lot of people off..

http://www.insidefacebook.com/2011/...nada-as-it-nears-700-million-users-worldwide/

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Yeah a lot of the new "improvements" piss people off but they seem to just get used to them eventually and give up complaining. If people actually start moving from Facebook over these issues it'd be excellent.

Liquorpuki said:

I use Facebook. All my relatives are on it and it's annoying because I get spammed with bible verses nonstop. Other than that it's the same 10 people responsible for 90% of the news feed.

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You should contribute to /r/facepalm and perhaps /r/atheism, sounds like you have some funny material to work with

One can only hope.

I stopped using facebook about a year ago, as there's just too much information being put into a public 'bucket' for anyone & everyone to see. Privacy settings or not, once information is out there it's there permanently.

Using Facebook a lot less than I used to. Those duck-faces are driving me nuts. Unpucker those lips! So, Twitter is my main social platform...

I use mine as an easy way to keep track of friends and family. Its nicer than email.

That being said I need to do a lot of friends list cleaning. I'm sick of seeing the "My life sucks no one loves me I'm going to go kill myself now" posts followed up 20 minutes later by the same person saying "I found a pig in Farmville".

If they were to make the time line go away i and i think a lot of others would return back to it, until they introduced that everything looked fine.

I used to use it quite a lot until about a year ago when I just got bored of all the spam pages and game requests and left. I use Twitter instead now and like that a lot more.

I have noticed myself use Facebook less and less, not because I don't like it, I have some stalker/fan on there who does nothing but try and talk to me and I don't have the heart to tell her to ****.

Wondering if you can grow marijuana on Farmville then sell it on Mafia Wars?

All I want is a very Simple interface. The timeline, new classifications for friends and subscriptions and other new "features" have played a big part in my usage decline.

I liked the original Mafia wars. Stopped paying that when they changed it.

In general, I use Facebook about 30% of what I used to.

bruinsrme said:

All I want is a very Simple interface. The timeline, new classifications for friends and subscriptions and other new "features" have played a big part in my usage decline.

In general, I use Facebook about 30% of what I used to.

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This. When they were just a simple "post a status" or "post a photo" site, and you got what your friends posted on your page, everything was great. But all this crap with subscriptions has made it really annoying. And the timeline is even more annoying. I have never switched to it.

I have blocked almost every single game and app, so I never see any of that. And I'm not friends with really annoying people, so I don't have duck-face photos or endless drama.

None of my dislike has anything to do with friends and what the do, it has to do with the way Facebook changed itself.

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This. When they were just a simple "post a status" or "post a photo" site, and you got what your friends posted on your page, everything was great. But all this crap with subscriptions has made it really annoying. And the timeline is even more annoying. I have never switched to it.

I have blocked almost every single game and app, so I never see any of that. And I'm not friends with really annoying people, so I don't have duck-face photos or endless drama.

None of my dislike has anything to do with friends and what the do, it has to do with the way Facebook changed itself.

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I agree. Facebook used to be a lot more simple. Now I block at least 2 games/apps a week and avoid links to articles I don't want people to see me reading. They've made it a chore to talk to my friends.

That said, I still prefer it to any other social network by miles. If FB went away I would be quite annoyed.

Isn't it a joke that in one fell swoop FB will have almost as much cash as Apple?

bruinsrme said:

All I want is a very Simple interface. The timeline, new classifications for friends and subscriptions and other new "features" have played a big part in my usage decline.

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I can't even use Timeline! Say what you will, but my preferred browser of choice is IE9. And Timeline on IE9 pretty much crashes my browser (generally IE9 doesn't handle a lot of javascript so well, but that only happens on really huge reedit posts and timeline). I've definitely stopped using Facebook as much, and I don't miss it.

I must be the only person here that likes timeline. Easy to find past wall posts and embarassing status updates from the past. I really like the cover photo/portrait combination too.

Otherwise the best way to reduce spam is to select who gets put on your friend list.