Facebook Is Losing Users In The Countries Where It Took Off First

Something strange is going on: Facebook is losing customers.

Lots of customers. According to Inside Facebook's data service, Facebook lost 6 million users in the U.S. last month, dropping from 155.2 million to 149.4 million. That's the first time U.S. numbers have dropped in more than a year.

It also lost 1.52 million users in Canada, dropping to 16.6 million -- that's an 8% drop -- and 100,000 each in the U.K., Norway, and Russia.

Total Facebook users were still up 1.7% thanks to growth in countries where the service got popular later, like Mexico and Brazil.

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I wish I had a FB account so I could delete it

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I don't mind Facebook it's just the tossers who moan about it. If you don't want to hassled by the freaks why are you friends with them? if you get into trouble from something you posted in your status then moan about then DON'T TYPE IT!

It's good if it used properly but there are loads of freaks on there so if it gets too much i just eithere delete them off or click unlike!

I joined Facebook late - and just deleted mine a few days ago.

The problem is, that it's TOO invasive, and it lets people get wayyyy closer than you want them to get.

My younger brother and sister were on there and closed theirs, too.

Maybe this is the beginning of the end for Facebook. Finally.

God willing.

armpit said:

I joined Facebook late - and just deleted mine a few days ago.

The problem is, that it's TOO invasive, and it lets people get wayyyy closer than you want them to get.

My younger brother and sister were on there and closed theirs, too.

Maybe this is the beginning of the end for Facebook. Finally.

God willing.

How interesting I was thinking of closing mine last week. I had closed it before a couple of years ago, but reactivated it...maybe that was a mistake. But I do find myself deleting off people who get irate...about 60% of the peeps on my friends list I don't even talk to. So what's the point?

frankly i never really saw its appeal at all

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To be honest i don't use to it's full potential, i dabble a snadge and there are a couple of games i play on it, in particular Mafia Wars, but that's about in.

missfee said:

armpit said:

I joined Facebook late - and just deleted mine a few days ago.

The problem is, that it's TOO invasive, and it lets people get wayyyy closer than you want them to get.

My younger brother and sister were on there and closed theirs, too.

Maybe this is the beginning of the end for Facebook. Finally.

God willing.

How interesting I was thinking of closing mine last week. I had closed it before a couple of years ago, but reactivated it...maybe that was a mistake. But I do find myself deleting off people who get irate...about 60% of the peeps on my friends list I don't even talk to. So what's the point?

Thing is, when you close it for good, it's not immediate - you have to make sure you don't log in for like two weeks before the deletion becomes permanent, and you have to jump hoops to even figure out how to permanently delete your profile in the first place....this must be what quitting a gang is like because trying to leave is a pain in the ass.

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i deleted my FB account in January....

and i dont miss it...

i am glad and happy that i have one less password to remember

I never liked Facebook

It became more of a habit than actually enjoying being there.

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I don’t understand why people feel so strongly against facebook. If it’s not your thing, that’s cool, but why be so jubilant if it somehow “fails”. And I hardly think losing a handful of users is any kind of “fail”.

It’s probably reached a saturation point in the US. While there are certainly users who are giving it up, I also wonder how many are people giving up maintaining the account they set up for their pet, or the second account they set up for friends-only while they kept a more public “legit” account for work and family.

CarrieMpls said:

I don’t understand why people feel so strongly against facebook. If it’s not your thing, that’s cool, but why be so jubilant if it somehow “fails”. And I hardly think losing a handful of users is any kind of “fail”.

It’s probably reached a saturation point in the US. While there are certainly users who are giving it up, I also wonder how many are people giving up maintaining the account they set up for their pet, or the second account they set up for friends-only while they kept a more public “legit” account for work and family.

It's kind of like cell phones, I remember their was resistance to that as being invasive, and unnecessary unless you were running a business or taking care of someone. Even I got one very late in the game.

But you don't see too many people against them now. It just became a common part of things.

Like cars. Or frozen dinners...

I use to be on it all of the time and then it was not so much fun anymore. I found it easy to get on it from the old phone I had but I never liked the way it looked on my computer.

The worst thing was when I started being added to all of these Prince groups and getting email updates ALL OF THE TIME. I have over 300 emails STILL to go through and delete. i plan on closing my account soon.

It serves a purpose for me - it is simply the best way I know of to keep track of the goings-on with my various theatre groups. So I will probably have an account for as long as Facebook lasts.

I don't play games or download apps (quizzes or any of that other crap), don't accept friend requests unless it's someone I actually know, and have my security settings as tight as they can possibly be. (Unless you're already my friend, my name doesn't even come up in a search.) No "Places." No "face recognition" for photos.

I feel about as secure as I can be there. But I'm pretty vigilant about changes those weasels make to apps and settings - and opt out immediately.

I enjoy the Org much more than FB.

While I do log onto FB daily, it's mostly a way for me to share photos with far-away family & friends (and also sneak-a-peek at other's lives! lol).

I detest the site on a personal level, since it was a way for my ex to reconnect with her new beaus, but now that I've blocked her things are easier.

People only see what you allow them to see. Don't "friend" anyone that you aren't really friendly with. I recently had to do some "housekeeping" myself, and de-friended (even blocked) people who I thought were my friends but are decidedly on my ex's "camp". Some even enabled her shennanigans.

If FB goes away, I'll miss the daily connection with faraway family/friends...but a slong as the Org continues, then life will go on!

Facebook is, and has been, gathering way too large a database on everyone in the world! NOW they're implementing Facial Recognition Technology?!? OH HELL NO! It's bad enough they've gotten everyone to post all their personal information on their own accounts, then they got everyone to detail what their relationship was to everyone else on their account. Now they're using Facial Recognition; keeping track of EVERYONE... even if you appear in the background of a photo! That's gone too far.

I still have an account, due to certain family members who mainly ONLY correspond on FB (...not that they're even saying anything that I particularly want to hear, lol). But trust: My privacy features are locked-up tight, and the few pics I have posted there aren't worth the security hoops I have setup in order to view them, lol. I was that way with FB from the beginning, and the same with MySpace before it. Trouble for many is that they've already gone too far. It's hard to keep track of so much of that information once you've put it out there.

Nevertheless, it was only a matter of time before Facebook's popularity would wane.

Genesia said:

It serves a purpose for me - it is simply the best way I know of to keep track of the goings-on with my various theatre groups. So I will probably have an account for as long as Facebook lasts.

I don't play games or download apps (quizzes or any of that other crap), don't accept friend requests unless it's someone I actually know, and have my security settings as tight as they can possibly be. (Unless you're already my friend, my name doesn't even come up in a search.) No "Places." No "face recognition" for photos.

I feel about as secure as I can be there. But I'm pretty vigilant about changes those weasels make to apps and settings - and opt out immediately.

I have 2 accounts and one was Prince people which was more fun and the other was family. I think I will just keep the family and try to keep it as tight as you keep your account.

They got a database and your location with your cell phone too.

Facebook is just another means of constant communication and sharing of your shit, just like cell phones, it's really not a requirement for living.

I think a lot of people get sick of the feeling that they have to "Keeping up with the Joneses" on Facebook. People start to feel like certain aspects of their life are not as good as what is presented by their peers, and it leads to anxiety. So they stop using it.

Otherwise, you can easily ignore messages and turn of functions that let people send you pics, or messages, or posts. They give you the ability to completely limit the amount of material you are exposed to form others.

I guess I'm old but I never really got facebook. I know people who post their entire lives on the site. Every move they make it on facebook. Who the hell cares if you just got finished mowing your lawn? I don't know. Maybe it's just me.

Dewrede said:

frankly i never really saw its appeal at all

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I agree. imo, it's like leaving a portion of ones psychological fingerprint for the powers that be.

CarrieMpls said:

I don’t understand why people feel so strongly against facebook. If it’s not your thing, that’s cool, but why be so jubilant if it somehow “fails”. And I hardly think losing a handful of users is any kind of “fail”.

It’s probably reached a saturation point in the US. While there are certainly users who are giving it up, I also wonder how many are people giving up maintaining the account they set up for their pet, or the second account they set up for friends-only while they kept a more public “legit” account for work and family.

I just am. I literally cannot wait for Facebook to be over, for a multitude of reasons I can't begin to adequately explain right now. When it is finally over I will probably spontaneously combust out of of happiness.

Although I believe Facebook still has a minute or two left to it's fifteen of fame. Facebook can't be completely done-with until something more popular takes it's place. And I don't think we know what that might be, yet.

Nevertheless, I DO sense the natives are becoming restless.

I never knew Facebook had an appeal. The only good thing about it was you could get in touch with friends and family. Other than that I wouldn't have messed with it.

Timmy84 said:

I never knew Facebook had an appeal. The only good thing about it was you could get in touch with friends and family. Other than that I wouldn't have messed with it.

That's why I find it so annoying

^Thats why I closed my account 3 weeks after getting one. I had people who I hadn't seen since grade schooling "Friending me". I was like there is a reason I never kept in touch with you. Family was even more annoying.

CarrieMpls said:

I don’t understand why people feel so strongly against facebook. If it’s not your thing, that’s cool, but why be so jubilant if it somehow “fails”. And I hardly think losing a handful of users is any kind of “fail”.

It’s probably reached a saturation point in the US. While there are certainly users who are giving it up, I also wonder how many are people giving up maintaining the account they set up for their pet, or the second account they set up for friends-only while they kept a more public “legit” account for work and family.

I was a little against it before I joined. It seemed like this dumb useless thing kids were doing.

But I joined and found it was very simple and a brilliant way to keep in touch with people. I am not particularly interested in it at the moment, but I don't think it will disappear. People just might not be on it all the time anymore.

I do get tired of hearing NPR talk about the power of Social Networking, however.

lazycrockett said:

^Thats why I closed my account 3 weeks after getting one. I had people who I hadn't seen since grade schooling "Friending me". I was like there is a reason I never kept in touch with you. Family was even more annoying.

Same here. Even my mom's friends were adding me.

No.

Alej said:

Timmy84 said:

I never knew Facebook had an appeal. The only good thing about it was you could get in touch with friends and family. Other than that I wouldn't have messed with it.

That's why I find it so annoying

That can be true too.

Hell I witness an embarrassing argument between my cousins from up north a few months ago.

I thought twitter had actually taken over in terms of popularity...from FB....can't be bothered with that one....as for FB I always delete but end up re-activating...I found a lot of people I hadn't seen in years and I like to keep in touch with them... but apart from that I hardly log on anymore...not like I used to about 4/5 years ago.

lavender1983 said:

I thought twitter had actually taken over in terms of popularity...from FB....can't be bothered with that one....as for FB I always delete but end up re-activating...I found a lot of people I hadn't seen in years and I like to keep in touch with them... but apart from that I hardly log on anymore...not like I used to about 4/5 years ago.

Twitter's popularity hasn't turned out to be that massive, believe it or not. I got tired of Twitter more than I did Facebook oddly enough.

Timmy84 said:

Alej said:

That's why I find it so annoying

That can be true too.

Hell I witness an embarrassing argument between my cousins from up north a few months ago.

For some reason, when I'm online, I prefer to talk to people who I've never met than those that I know and get to see (almost) every day.

That probably doesn't make sense. I'll stfu now.