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Speaking personally, two things have kept me from permanently deleting my Facebook account: my contact list, and apps that require FB sign-in. Facebook's core
by gingerbread-man 8y ago
Speaking personally, two things have kept me from permanently deleting my Facebook account: my contact list, and apps that require FB sign-in.
Facebook's core utility as the web's primary identity provider, and the network effects underlying that position, form a tremendous "economic moat."
The amount of time users spend on Facebook.com and the iOS/Android apps may decline and cut into their revenue, but their core platform isn't going away for a long time.
- llampx 8y ago> Facebook's core utility as the web's primary identity provider, and the network effects underlying that position, form a tremendous "economic moat." Maybe its just me being extremely privacy-conscious, but I only ever had Airbnb and Spotify linked to Facebook. I never wanted to link Facebook further into my life than I had to. When I deleted my Facebook account it was simple to convert my Airbnb account, and I just let the fb-linked Spotify account die with it.
- shard972 8y ago> Facebook's core utility as the web's primary identity provider, and the network effects underlying that position, form a tremendous "economic moat." That is one thing i found horrific when i went to delete my FB account. I was denied being allowed to delete it because my spotify was linked and spotify has no functionality to change your authentication method so I had to transfer my collection from 1 account to another just so i could delete my spotify so i could delete my facebook...