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As if people ever leave their social media. First, Zuckerberg has given people a reason to leave facebook time and time again, but hardly anybody left. Second,
by tgv 5y ago
As if people ever leave their social media. First, Zuckerberg has given people a reason to leave facebook time and time again, but hardly anybody left. Second, twitter's main attraction is that all the media, most importantly, the established and influential media, see twitter as a source of press releases and hands the most raucous twitterers an enormous extra platform. They, and their followers and foes, will not give that up lightly.
- zeruch 5y ago"As if people ever leave their social media." Friendster, Orkut, Google+, MySpace, Vine, Flickr, Friendfeed...they absolutely do.
- rcMgD2BwE72F 5y agoWho left Friendfeed? I don't remember people leaving it. I remember people not joining it (after its glory days) and then Facebook closing it. Idem for Orkut (mostly only popular in Brazil IIRC). If you thought of an exodus after investors meddled in, mentioning Digg v4 (to Reddit) would have been à propos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digg#Digg_v4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digg#Digg_v4
- zeruch 5y ago"I remember people not joining it (after its glory days) " That's just the obverse of leaving isn't it? The site loses any momentum, becomes stagnant, and peters out, or in the case of Friendfeed, became ripe for acqui-hiring, then effectively spun down. Orkut actually kept growing for a while, but in secondary markets (not just Brazil, but that was its biggest geo), until started to stagnate then decline. Digg is a great example as well.
- bena 5y agoNo one really left Google+. Mainly because no one really went to Google+.
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- tayo42 5y agoFacebook is slowly dieing, it's just everywhere so it's hard to actually close your account. That doesn't mean it's in use as it used to be