Saturation Point: Facebook Loses 1.3 Million US Users
Submitted by P.Au.L on Tue, 01/15/2013 - 20:26By Quentin Fottrell | MarketWatch
Maybe people got tired of their friends and family over the holidays, or perhaps they resolved to do a digital detox for the New Year. Either way, Facebook has been a bit quieter lately.
The number of Americans using Facebook fell by nearly 1.4 million in early December, according to new data from social media monitoring company SocialBakers. While Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) has more than 167 million users in the U.S. and 1 billion worldwide, the recent drop in monthly active users is still akin to losing the entire population of San Antonio, Texas. “Facebook is possibly getting to a point where the less engaged part of the audience doesn’t visit every 30 days,” says SocialBakers CEO Jan Rezab.
Why the fall off? The increased advertising on the site and new experimental fees may be grating on some users’ nerves, experts say. Earlier this month, for example, Facebook tested charging users (with fees peaking at $100 within the U.S.) to send a message to someone outside their “friends” list. And in October, it rolled out the option to promote posts to more friends for a $7 fee. “There seems to be a change every other week,” says K. Jason Krafsky, who co-wrote the book “Facebook and Your Marriage
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To cover up the fact that Facebook is ANTI-AMERICAN.
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That was sufficient reason for me to deactivate, PLUS my posts were only pushing those away who weren't ready to hear truthful facts about our state and Imperialistic reign over our liberties and in order to put them asunder, PLUS and not that I care that I was part of a governmental watch group (FB), but that it seems exactly Anti-Constitution and American to post information that is censored or monitored because it goes against the status quo propensity to disseminate lies and fear.
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Anti-American how?
A little context would help others make the mental leap that you have.