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I think the methodology is deeply flawed because of the growing number of mobile users who are mostly using native Facebook apps and they definitely won't be Go
by eloff 13y ago
I think the methodology is deeply flawed because of the growing number of mobile users who are mostly using native Facebook apps and they definitely won't be Googling for that.
I would prefer to think it means people have realized they can type facebook.com into the address bar and just go straight there. But that's probably just wishful thinking.
- emiliobumachar 13y agofb.com also works and is shorter.
- mbillie1 13y agoModern browsers have made it much easier to get to the page you want, I think. If you're in the address bar, probably for most people "f" or at most "fa" will pre-fill facebook.com, then you're talking 3 button-strokes... I'm curious how many one-letter chrome-autofill-suggestions I regularly rely on, but for me, muscle memory dictates t-f-enter to get to facebook (t opens a tab when using vimium, but you can substitute command-t if you like). Then again I am a developer and I use vim, so I think about things like how many keystrokes it took me to execute a command... :/
- agumonkey 13y agoIt's even simpler, most of what I've seen they suspend their machine with the visible tab on facebook, resume and check what's new.
- grahamel 13y agoI agree. What that fact shows is that people are no longer searching for Facebook (either to get the site or find out what it is) but now people either know what Facebook is, or have been to the site enough for it to prepopulate when typing fa.. A better stat (which Facebook provide in one way or other) to base on is the number of active users, time on the platform and devices used to interact.