Nearly one in 10 Americans have deleted their Facebook accounts, survey says

https://www.techradar.com/news/nearly-one-in-10-us-facebook-users-have-deleted-their-accounts-survey-says

by theuncommon • 8 years ago

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Jommi• 8 years ago

Survey done by https://creativestrategies.com/

They ran a study across 1000 Americans who are "representative of the US population in gender and age."
"Privacy matters to our panelists. Thirty-six percent said they are very concerned about it and another 41% saying they are somewhat concerned.

Their behavior on Facebook has somewhat changed due to their privacy concerns. Seventeen percent deleted their Facebook app from their phone, 11% deleted from other devices, and 9% deleted their account altogether. These numbers might not worry Facebook too much, but there are less drastic steps users are taking that should be worrying as they directly impact Facebook’s business model"

mayniac• 8 years ago

I struggle to believe this.

I had 300 Facebook friends before I deleted my account a couple of days ago, and I didn't see that number decrease. Neither did I hear anything from the decent number of infosec friends who you would expect to be the first to delete their accounts.

Of course that's anecdotal, but 10% seems very high.

reacharavindh• 8 years ago

I have a hard time believing this. But, the real damage could be time spent on Facebook and what information people would share on Facebook in the future.

I for one keep my account because it became a social ID. But it practically has no meaningful personal data other than my name & contacts.

It is a matter of slow death...

PeOe• 8 years ago

I´m not surprised by this if it´s really true. Zuckerberg's focus should be on his users and not the advertisers and organizations. I think he wants to compare Facebook with Google in collecting data. And there are many other Social Networks which we can use. If Facebook doesn´t change his plans than it might go down. Not at the moment but steadily year after year.

aNoob7000• 8 years ago

The sad part about all this is that Google probably has more data on Americans through searches and Android than Facebook.

pacuna• 8 years ago

True. But it's also important to know what they do with the data. We all knew that FB had our data. What we didn't know is that it was being used to do unethical stuff by companies like Cambridge Analytica.

nontechdude1• 8 years ago

I think they're lying when they say that they haven't seen a noticeable impact in usage. Plenty of people I know can see through their BS and want to delete their FB or already have.

Society probably shouldn't use social media at all. Facebook has every intent on making its use a social norm.

Nearly one in 10 Americans have deleted their Facebook accounts, survey says

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