Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Massive drop in Facebook users, and why?


Now, some of your thoughts, if you're anything like me and secretly want to destroy Facebook wih fire, might be something along the lines of  "MUAHAHAHAHA!"...

Of course that doesn't make for a very interesting article. We're here to look at WHY Facebook users are leaving. This graph, pictured above, clearly shows that a major ammount of people are leaving. Only 31.14% of the answers were from people that were staying. 30.33% of the people were leaving due to "don't trust it with my personal information". I'd personally group the 7.12% that said "It sells my data to advertisers." with that.

Apparently 2.01% of people are leaving because of bugs! One of these bugs, which apparently just occurred recently, is something so terrible I don't think even Myspace has screwed up that badly before.

Last night, in an embarrassing glitch for Facebook that raises questions about privacy on the site, some users of the social-networking service began getting hundreds of personal messages that weren’t intended for them.

Yeah... that letter about how you like turtles just went to your boss.

In short, Facebook has really screwed up. People are leaving en masse. Now if only it was less of a civil war to delete your account.

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