People are waking up!
Somebody told me some good news.
And because I don’t trust anything I hear, I looked it up (I believe half what I read). Guess what? It’s true! Someone must have have put Get Smarter pills in the drinking water because Facebook numbers are – tighten your sealtbelt – declining. Yay!
Have people finally figured out that data mining, and the selling of their most personal information is actually an un-cool thing?! That there’s advantages to Privacy?!
* Data privacy trends: Mining and socializing
“2012 was a wild ride for cyber security and data privacy with no signs of reprieve as we slide into the New Year. So, how well did we do on our predictions from last year? At the end of 2011 I predicted there would be increased scrutiny of the third party data mining industry, and that has happened. A significant percentage of consumers continue to be concerned that data about them is being accessed and used for commercial purposes without their permission, with the potential for a variety of unhappy consequences.” Read more..
[very interesting read.]
Well.. not really. That seems to only be a concern for a small group of the IT savvy. But it does seem to be true: numbers are declining..
* Facebook numbers in decline in the UK and US
“Facebook numbers are falling in the UK and US, new research reveals.” Read more..
[related: Facebook criticised over silent launch of facial recognition tool]
and..
* Facebook Users Decline Along With Share Price: Competition from Samsung?
and for a look at the WHY of it.. Why Facebook Is Losing U.S. Users.
Has Facebook’s time finally come? Have they finally “gone too far”?
Or do the paid journalists grab at any straw, just to have some copy to submit?
I don’t know. But I don’t think anyone’s putting Get Smarter pills in the drinking water …
Today’s quote: “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.” ~ Elie Wiesel
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I think if Facebook was going to die, the existing sites won’t kill it. It will be a new fresh site which kills it.
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Luke,
I would actually like to hope that the “social networking” fad just went away altogether, and that people would get back to work/being productive — and do their “socializing” face to face. (Maybe wake up to the fact FB is not a miracle marketing tool.)
But the damage has already been done (our private info absorbed and cataloged and cross-referenced) and I think you’re probably right.. the lemmings would just jump to the trendy hot new website.. Like what happened to MySpace.
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