5 Possible Reasons U.S. Users Are Ditching Facebook

Own we finally grown tired of Facebook? According to Inside Facebook, to a higher degree quintuplet percent of U.S. users abandoned Facebook in May–that's most sise million people who have stopped "liking" the world's largest elite network. Six million people jump ship sounds look-alike a lot, but when you consider that Facebook is on tag along to hit 700 million users any day now, information technology's not such a big tidy sum.

Just it raises the question: wherefore are U.S. users ditching Facebook? Here's a look at 5 possible explanations for May 2020's Great Facebook Exodus.

#1 – Nobody's Going — The Data is Wrong

If you ask out Facebook, this is ane of those instances in which there's smoke, only no fire. A Facebook rep says that reports such equally Inside Facebook's "use data extracted from our advertising tool, which provides broad estimates on the reach of Facebook ads and isn't designed to be a beginning for tracking the overall growth of Facebook."

Sol Inner Facebook ran another series of tests using third-party measurement services like comScore, Contend, Quantcast and Google Ad Planner, and that data is totally schizophrenic. Some show fast gains, others depict slow gains, others story losses, and curiously, Sony's ranking system shows Pop Tart Cat. (Equitable kidding.)

#2 – The Privacy Issues Keep Acquiring Worsened

Where to startle with Facebook's ridiculous string of privateness problems? How about the a la mode: the opt-out facial recognition software system that identifies and tags Facebook users in photos without permission or forewarning. Facebook apologized — merely non for the software system. No, information technology apologized for the software system's rocky launch. Today privacy advocates are asking the U.S. Federal Government to stop Facebook from using this facial recognition technology.

To put this in position, Google's Eric Schmidt says that facial recognition package is overly creepy-crawly. When Google thinks something too creepy, you know information technology's way of life, way too creepy.

Until Facebook users realize that Facebook is a free service that you can cancel at some prison term and that it therefore owes you nothing in terms of privacy and security measures, this won't cost the last time the site volition make headlines for hybridization the creepy line.

#3 – Facebook has Get over too Much of a Concern

Facebook used to be about fun, and stuff. IT's not that fun anymore.

Of late, when the headlines aren't railing against Facebook's privacy fouls, the media has been reporting on the ship's company's financial concerns and its reported $100 billion valuation. Bor-ing!

Perhaps the Facebook's development from inauguration to unavoidable monstrosity has driven Millennials — a multiplication typically in favour of entrepreneurialism — into "distrust mode," thereby signaling a far-flung call to ditch Rich Uncle Pennybags' once-amusive locate and move onto new social networking services…which play us to…

#4 – Facebook is too General; We Want Specific Social Networks

The generalized nature of Facebook is great for those who dig … stuff. But our friendly Web culture is turning to apps, and services such as Instagram for photos, Foodspotting for foodies, GetGlue for multimedia, Soundtracking for music, etc., are catering to those who want a ecological niche. Careful, these apps are sympathetic with Facebook word feeds for added sharing capabilities, but they'Re also edifice their own, specified, elite group networks.

#5 – We'atomic number 75 Returning to MySpace

I'm lamentable — that's comically absurd, merely I had to say IT.