Article
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/willheaven/100092236/is-this-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-facebook/
‘Facebook suicide’ is becoming an increasing occurring phenomenon, which is using your facebook account less, or deleting your account all together. However, this only goes for certain groups. For teenagers, Facebook is the way they communicate, spending hours of sharing funny videos, pictures, chatting and posting messages. Older users mainly use it as a backup to their iPhones. It’s the latter who have started to delete their accounts, 100.000 in the UK last month, and six million American users deleted their accounts in that same month. Facebook has been gaining users in poorer countries like India and Brazil, but the advertising is a lot less effective to those, since they usually have a lot less to spend.
Opinion
I do have a Facebook account, and while I’m usually quite the critic concerning sharing that much personal information on the internet, I can’t help posting a message once in a while. I think the development of facebook-suicides is a natural one. Facebook is a couple of years old now, it became something ‘regular’ first, and now a lot of people maybe feel like it’s outdated, not ‘cool’, or something quite dangerous, because of the easy access people and companies have to your personal information. But I also feel that, when something new comes a long (in the form of a social network site), those people will be the first to make a new account.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/willheaven/100092236/is-this-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-facebook/
‘Facebook suicide’ is becoming an increasing occurring phenomenon, which is using your facebook account less, or deleting your account all together. However, this only goes for certain groups. For teenagers, Facebook is the way they communicate, spending hours of sharing funny videos, pictures, chatting and posting messages. Older users mainly use it as a backup to their iPhones. It’s the latter who have started to delete their accounts, 100.000 in the UK last month, and six million American users deleted their accounts in that same month. Facebook has been gaining users in poorer countries like India and Brazil, but the advertising is a lot less effective to those, since they usually have a lot less to spend.
Opinion
I do have a Facebook account, and while I’m usually quite the critic concerning sharing that much personal information on the internet, I can’t help posting a message once in a while. I think the development of facebook-suicides is a natural one. Facebook is a couple of years old now, it became something ‘regular’ first, and now a lot of people maybe feel like it’s outdated, not ‘cool’, or something quite dangerous, because of the easy access people and companies have to your personal information. But I also feel that, when something new comes a long (in the form of a social network site), those people will be the first to make a new account.
I wonder if those people will make an account on other sites, I know plenty of people who have virtually killed themselves never to rear their heads on the internet again. I’m pretty sure facebook is still safe from being outdated for quite a while. I hate to say this as it is everything but original, however: nicely written!
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