Missed a Bet

[jefboyardee]

Bye, bye, Facebook: Americans abandoning in droves, says poll

The Facebook craze that gave us Farmville and notes from "friends" about their breakfast and just about everything else may finally be ending.

 

[Rukbat]

Everyone used to own at least a few buttonhooks, back in the 1890s. A woman wouldn't think of leaving the house without "putting on her face" in the 1950s.

Things change. What would be a big surprise would be if things didn't change. (Anyone still remember RCP/M or RBBS?)

 

[big_z]

I read this on Slashdot yesterday; it looks like part of the methodology was to study how often "facebook" was searched for in Google. If you make Facebook your homepage, or if your browser's typed URL history matches typing "fac" to facebook.com, then naturally the number of Google searches for "facebook" are going to decrease.

Not a very good study, in my opinion, and I'm not a Facebook fanboy by any means.

 

[shmn]

I read this on Slashdot yesterday; it looks like part of the methodology was to study how often "facebook" was searched for in Google. If you make Facebook your homepage, or if your browser's typed URL history matches typing "fac" to facebook.com, then naturally the number of Google searches for "facebook" are going to decrease.

Not a very good study, in my opinion, and I'm not a Facebook fanboy by any means.

That's Slashdot. The article used their own data which more compelling.

But the poll also found that many users seem to be getting bored with the website started in 2004. Besides the 61 percent who report taking long breaks from it, 42 percent of those aged 18-29, 34 percent of those 30-49, and 23 percent of users 50 and over have decreased their time on Facebook over the last year.