Leaving Facebook in Droves over Privacy Fears

[elfismiles]

Drudge headlines...

100K FACEBOOKERS in Britain deactivate accounts...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... fears.html

1.5 million quit in Canada...
http://www.globalnews.ca/story.html?id=4937644

Millions More In USA?
http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/faceboo ... 110613-ncx

[seemslikeadream]

Drudge headlines...

100K FACEBOOKERS in Britain deactivate accounts...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... fears.html

1.5 million quit in Canada...
http://www.globalnews.ca/story.html?id=4937644

Millions More In USA?
http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/faceboo ... 110613-ncx

Millions find they are just not that interesting to anyone other than their mothers

[justdrew]

It's over facebook... Drop your gun and let the woman go.

[Nordic]

this seems oddly coincidental with their talk of an impending ipo worth billions. the lower price that people can get in, the more profit they will make.

[norton ash]

Maybe a billion people are yearning for a little time alone.

[82_28]

I totally hope this is true. My opinion is is that people should stick with the "raw" Internet. It's worked so far for all of us. Facebook improves nothing about life -- unless you're a business. If I owned a business it would have a Facebook presence, but then if people weren't on FB anymore, having a business presence would be moot. Plus I wanna see that Zuckerberg guy and everyone else fail out of pure schadenfreude.

[Wombaticus Rex]

this seems oddly coincidental with their talk of an impending ipo worth billions. the lower price that people can get in, the more profit they will make.

Yeah, this story is bullshit PR and rrrrreally basic Wall Street S.O.P. ... in fact, F.U.D. to be more precise:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_unce ... _and_doubt

Ground floor IPO pricing could always be a little cheaper, right? So go ahead and spread bad stories to the idiot classes, and pass the savings on to yourself. Even if all these stories were true, side note, it wouldn't logically change the valuation from any honest analysts' POV, simply because of FB's business model which we've discussed here ad nauseum. Let the proles cancel their accounts and have privacy concerns -- meanwhile, FB is still going to be using their account data to match them up with their online behavior and keeping files on that, then selling those files to advertisers and Whoever Else.

[seemslikeadream]

But spirit is something that no one destroys

[8bitagent]

[size=150][b]It's over facebook...

Hardly. Not one person I know, cept maybe a couple people, doesn't have a facebook and use it on a daily basis. And pretty much noone I meet in random day to day/night life does not have a facebook when the topic is broached.

Unlike livejournal, friendster and myspace; facebook has found a way to almost permanently sink it's tentacles into the minds of most college aged and older people. In fact, I have no idea why or how myspace can even exist as not one person nor band I know or follow ever logs in there. In the minds of many, facebook is too perfect. Oh, some may take a break or swear it off, but they all come back

[8bitagent]

I totally hope this is true. My opinion is is that people should stick with the "raw" Internet. It's worked so far for all of us. Facebook improves nothing about life -- unless you're a business. If I owned a business it would have a Facebook presence, but then if people weren't on FB anymore, having a business presence would be moot. Plus I wanna see that Zuckerberg guy and everyone else fail out of pure schadenfreude.

Hey, I long for the days of pre mass cellphone use, zine making, MTV late night alternative, mix cassette and pre mass internet usage days. But unless one does a radical
Kazynski like lifestyle change, just isn't practical in today's world sadly(hell my real wish was that it was 1988 again)

[82_28]

[size=150][b]It's over facebook...

Hardly. Not one person I know, cept maybe a couple people, doesn't have a facebook and use it on a daily basis. And pretty much noone I meet in random day to day/night life does not have a facebook when the topic is broached.

Unlike livejournal, friendster and myspace; facebook has found a way to almost permanently sink it's tentacles into the minds of most college aged and older people. In fact, I have no idea why or how myspace can even exist as not one person nor band I know or follow ever logs in there. In the minds of many, facebook is too perfect. Oh, some may take a break or swear it off, but they all come back

Like cocaine, heroin and the rest, I simply said that is something I will never do, no matter how irresistible the peer pressure got.

[Nordic]

its all about the kids, baby. facebook is like crack to teenage girls. and the boys are all on there too. i mean all of them, unless their parents cut them off (like in my house).

every year millions of kids sign on for the first time. starting in probably 5th and 6th grade. they're growing up with it and they will find it difficult to even comprehend life without it as they get older. not having a facebook will be like not having a phone number for us.

[82_28]

I may have relayed this story here before, but somewhere at sometime in the past few months I either heard or read this.

Anyways, some woman took her like 10 year old nephew out to a thrift store or something and was explaining to him about old land line tech. Not the tech, but how it was for all us growing up and having a single line into the house, but with multiple phones sharing the line. How you could unplug it, lift the receiver, then plug it back in and listen in. Or how your dad would answer the phone and scream up to you to get it and then wait on the line until you picked up.

The kid's response while looking at all these phones and hearing the history of it all?

"Yeah, but how did you text on it?"

[brekin]

Could be other reasons people are leaving facebook...
This is from the UK, but I know personally three such instances.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/f ... laims.html


Facebook fuelling divorce, research claims
Facebook is being cited in almost one in five of online divorce petitions, lawyers have claimed.

The social networking site, which connects old friends and allows users to make new ones online, is being blamed for an increasing number of marital breakdowns.

Divorce lawyers claim the explosion in the popularity of websites such as Facebook and Bebo is tempting to people to cheat on their partners.

Suspicious spouses have also used the websites to find evidence of flirting and even affairs which have led to divorce.

One law firm, which specialises in divorce, claimed almost one in five petitions they processed cited Facebook.

Mark Keenan, Managing Director of Divorce-Online said: "I had heard from my staff that there were a lot of people saying they had found out things about their partners on Facebook and I decided to see how prevalent it was I was really surprised to see 20 per cent of all the petitions containing references to Facebook.

"The most common reason seemed to be people having inappropriate sexual chats with people they were not supposed to."

Flirty emails and messages found on Facebook pages are increasingly being cited as evidence of unreasonable behaviour.

Computer firms have even cashed in by developing software allowing suspicious spouses to electronically spy on someone's online activities.

One 35-year-old woman even discovered her husband was divorcing her via Facebook.

Conference organiser Emma Brady was distraught to read that her marriage was over when he updated his status on the site to read: "Neil Brady has ended his marriage to Emma Brady."

Last year a 28-year-old woman ended her marriage after discovering her husband had been having a virtual affair with someone in cyberspace he had never met.

Amy Taylor 28, split from David Pollard after discovering he was sleeping with an escort in the game Second Life, a virtual world where people reinvent themselves.

Around 14 million Britons are believed to regularly use social networking sites to communicate with old friends or make new ones.

The popularity of the Friends Reunited website several years ago was also blamed for a surge in divorces as bored husbands and wives used it to contact old flames and first loves.

The UK’s divorce rate has fallen in recent years, but two in five marriages are still failing according the latest statistics.

Mr Keenan believes that the general divorce rate will rocket in 2010 with the recession taking the blame.

[8bitagent]

its all about the kids, baby. facebook is like crack to teenage girls. and the boys are all on there too. i mean all of them, unless their parents cut them off (like in my house).

every year millions of kids sign on for the first time. starting in probably 5th and 6th grade. they're growing up with it and they will find it difficult to even comprehend life without it as they get older. not having a facebook will be like not having a phone number for us.

Damn , I remember it used to be just college kids. But all of my friends who are 35-50ish are on that thing all the time, so it seems to have really sunk itself into day to day interaction with family, coworkers, friends, etc

Like cocaine, heroin and the rest, I simply said that is something I will never do, no matter how irresistible the peer pressure got.

Ha, oh dude...you can't go a day without being on that damn site especially with the built in chat and such. Everyone I know is on it all the time, even people who used to swear against being online much

Strangely, the only "drugs" Ive tried is pot a few times, which I didnt feel anything. I drink pretty much every weekend with friends, which I guess isnt good. But Im a product of the "just say no" 80's period