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Which platform did your more interesting friends move to ?

skj 9y ago
My experience (I am not the OP) is that the facebook leavers are abandoning social media platforms altogether rather than simply moving to a different one.
osrec 9y ago
They did not move to any platform. You ask the question as if being associated with a platform is a basic necessity!
- kinkrtyavimoodh 9y ago
  Well, unless they are purely communicating in person or by phone, SMS, or email (or snail mail) they ARE on some platform.
  - osrec 9y ago
    Yes, if you're being pedantic about it, but they did not go from one Facebook-like platform to another. I think people just don't see much value in Facebook-esque platforms like before, because they recognise them as places filled with all sorts of irrelevant junk that can usurp copious amounts of valuable time.
    - kinkrtyavimoodh 9y ago
      That's true but to an extent that a social networking platform derives most of its utility from having people present on it, it being a non-FB-like platform may only be a matter of time. It could become more FB-like (if that was deemed necessary) or it could be bought by FB or FB-like companies.
  - r00fus 9y ago
    iMessage/Photostream? Privacy concerns lead my family to use nothing else.
joering2 9y ago
Most of my friends moved to more one-on-one private forms of communication, such as skype, kik, regular text message (iphone imessage lets you create groups). I also noticed majority of my friends (even some PhD etc) are pretty embarrassed about their postings from few years ago how they pretty much throw up on their facebook wall daily about even silliest stuff. They cyber-grew-up and now would not do that kind of stuff again. As of Thiel's sell, even FB on their recent call warned stockholders that recent successes will be hard to duplicate. As more move into mobile use and there is less space for ads than on your desktop, the only option FB has is to stuck more ads between your feed, lowering the quality of experience altogether.

skj 9y ago

My experience (I am not the OP) is that the facebook leavers are abandoning social media platforms altogether rather than simply moving to a different one.

osrec 9y ago

They did not move to any platform. You ask the question as if being associated with a platform is a basic necessity!

kinkrtyavimoodh 9y ago
Well, unless they are purely communicating in person or by phone, SMS, or email (or snail mail) they ARE on some platform.
- osrec 9y ago
  Yes, if you're being pedantic about it, but they did not go from one Facebook-like platform to another. I think people just don't see much value in Facebook-esque platforms like before, because they recognise them as places filled with all sorts of irrelevant junk that can usurp copious amounts of valuable time.
  - kinkrtyavimoodh 9y ago
    That's true but to an extent that a social networking platform derives most of its utility from having people present on it, it being a non-FB-like platform may only be a matter of time. It could become more FB-like (if that was deemed necessary) or it could be bought by FB or FB-like companies.
- r00fus 9y ago
  iMessage/Photostream? Privacy concerns lead my family to use nothing else.

joering2 9y ago

Most of my friends moved to more one-on-one private forms of communication, such as skype, kik, regular text message (iphone imessage lets you create groups). I also noticed majority of my friends (even some PhD etc) are pretty embarrassed about their postings from few years ago how they pretty much throw up on their facebook wall daily about even silliest stuff. They cyber-grew-up and now would not do that kind of stuff again. As of Thiel's sell, even FB on their recent call warned stockholders that recent successes will be hard to duplicate. As more move into mobile use and there is less space for ads than on your desktop, the only option FB has is to stuck more ads between your feed, lowering the quality of experience altogether.