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Am I an active user? Yes Am I an active user? Yes Am I an active user? Yes Am I an active user? Yes
by TekMol 8y ago
Am I an active user?
Yes
Am I an active user?
Yes
Am I an active user?
Yes
Am I an active user?
Yes
- SCdF 8y agoThat is a very nicely formatted response. It--- at least to me--- proves my point that active user is not a useful metric, as all of those people have very different values and drive growth (or don't) in very different ways, and so have no use being clumped together. We didn't even get to talk about differing user demographics or time, data by country, trends inside countries etc.
- mark212 8y agoYou could have made the same criticism about a magazine in 1965. They tout to advertisers how many “readers” they have and how readership is growing, and your criticism is “all I do is open it and flip through the pages; I don’t _read_.” Your value is not in reading the articles but in viewing the ads. For FB display advertising, you opened the app and viewed ads. Eyeballs captured! Value unlocked! Sure they’d rather have you spend 5 hours on the site, but even your slight attention is valuable.
- TekMol 8y agoThat's like saying 'pounds' is not a useful metric because it does not tell you 'pounds of what'.
- gaius 8y agoWhat weighs more, a pound of lead or a pound of feathers?
- King-Aaron 8y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH0hikcwjIA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH0hikcwjIA
- metildaa 8y agoPretty sure OP is a passive user, and is extremely susceptible to better tools for OP's needs coming along, eg: the current crop of buy/sell/trade apps/PWAs out there.
- simonh 8y agoThere's no such thing as a passive user to facebook through. There are accounts with no activity at all and are simply dead, and accounts with activity. That's it. An active user is simply an account that it still used from time to time. The point is the metric tells you nothing about how it is used.