Posted on 06/18/2011 5:30:35 AM PDT by upchuck
Facebook lost nearly 6m users in the US last month, according to figures from Inside Facebook, sparking fresh concern that the social network’s growth is slowing.
Total monthly active users on the site still grew by 1.7 per cent between the beginning of May and early June, taking its total to 687m, according to Inside Facebook, part of the Inside Network, which provides news and analytics tools for social media, virtual goods and mobile apps.
But in the US there was a drop for the first time in a year, from 155.2m to 149.4m during the month of May. Canada also lost 1.52m users, while the UK, Norway and Russia lost “more than 100,000”.
That was all offset by big gains in Brazil, India, Mexico and Indonesia, Inside Facebook says, but “overall growth has been lower than normal for the second month straight, which is unusual”.
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Once you get half the country it’s hard to keep climbing. And it’s no more destructive a tool than any other website.
Not deep at all. It means they let it scan their PAB to compare it to their list and see the matches and send friend requests. It’s voluntary by the user, that’s not mining.
I use FB mail all the time. Don’t care if they archive, nothing I put in ANY e-mail (almost all of which is archived by somebody) would get me in trouble.
LOL!
tracks you.
“Let’s say your budget was limited enough that you had to give up entertainment ~ but you’re still looking for employment. That cellphone gives you 24/7 access to employers, and them to you!
Not having the internet (other than that WalMart email link) is something anyone cold deal with for a good long while.”
Actually, I was in that boat a good long while. Let’s see. Phone got chopped in August. When I finally got hired, I was hired by a company who advertised on the internet and hired through email.
I still haven’t bothered to restore phone service. It’s just not worth the bother.
Guess you can do that ~ but there are employers who like to set up appointments for interviews on the phone ~ suit and tie and all that.
Neither one of my employers hired through the phone.
I’ve cut it off since last August, and funny thing? I don’t miss it. If people want to get ahold of me, they can send me an email and I’ll get back to them.
From a cost-effectiveness standpoint, having access to email is FAR more valuable than a phone.
So, how do you get your email?
Compare “what” is my question. Email address? Totally seperate. Employers? All mine on FB are fictitious. Date of birth and hometown? Change every few months.
I’m with you on this. I’m also retired and wish to simplify my life. I’ve discovered, like Thoreau, that a person is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to do without. Too many Americans are caught up in mindless consumerism (my opinion) having to find the latest gewgaws, gimcracks, gizmos and gadgets. What a fraud. I also believe in general that the less people have within, the more they have without; i.e., tattoos and other body adornments, fishooks in nose, mouth, etc. I’ve never seen more people express their unconventionality in such a conventional way. Most morons ape other morons; they talk, look, act, and entertain themselves the same way.
Clear wire. 50/month just for the internet. No cable, no phones. Worth it.
Me too. I retired in 1999 and moved to South Carolina in 2003. Before I moved I gave away about 80% of my stuff.
Constant questions running through my head: What can I do to simplify my life? How can I use technology to simplify my life?
Never been happier.
So does every other major internet site with a login, including this one I bet. It’s the best way to prevent double IDs for one thing, and an early warning that an account has been hacked.
Apparently not totally separate e-mail addresses. Because that’s what they check, since you need an e-mail address to sign up, they check the addresses in the person’s PAB with their list and do the friend ask. Unless it was a cold e-mail, in which case they just send to all the addresses.
For most of my life I was the type of guy that saved everything (because I might need it some day). Of course when you do that, you better have a good storage system in place. We never got to the point where we had tunnels in the house, but the garage was full, and every spare space was packed, and the house in general was cluttered.
Several years ago I decided I had to "simplify my life".
I actually hired a big construction dumpster for the first load there was so much.
The easy stuff went quickly, then began the hard process of letting go things that had sentimental value, which was almost everything.
Once the garage was cleaned up enough, I started inside the house. My technique was to quickly decide go or stay, the go stuff was put in a box, the stay stuff had to find a home. I then dated the box, sealed it up, and put it in the garage. If after a year I did not open the box looking for something, it went, unopened.
This process has taken over 15 years and there is just about nothing left. But it is a constant battle.
One of the hardest was convincing friends and family we really did not want gifts on birthday or holidays or from their vacation or Christmas. A card would be nice but that is all. A gift from a friend or loved one comes attached with emotional baggage that makes it difficult to get rid of later. If you don't accept it, you don't fill your home with more clutter.
I should note anything of real family history was passed on to someone in the family (and it becomes their problem)
It is like a great weight lifted off my shoulder. The only thing really important to us are the family photos, and I have scanned them and passed out copies to the family so even if I lose my copies, others have them.
I don’t know whether they’re peaking—but they’ve sure been peeking.
Ha ha—good one!
People may be cutting costs elsewhere but I doubt too many are canceling internet service to save money. Like cellphones, internet service in modern life has pretty much moved from a luxury to a necessity.
This goes without saying there are undoubtedly many people who have had their service disconnected due to their inability to make payments, just as people have had their utilities turned off and cars repossessed.
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