I was listening the Marketplace Tech Report on the way to work yesterday morning and discovered that, according to recent studies, Facebook is at its lowest customer approval rate ever. At 61 points on the American Customer Satisfaction index, this is actually the lowest number ever for a social media site in general. Google+, Pinterest and LinkedIn eclipse the dominating Internet force in this user-controlled study. Is the networking sensation starting to die down? Are you using the site as much?
Members are not very pleased at the moment. What factors go in to this decline in user satisfaction? As creative as they can get, the timeline feature caused a mass exodus or at least a substantial drop in online activity. And did Facebook somehow slip into your account overnight and modify your contact information to an @facebook email address? What about the never-ending advertisements that are specifically designed to match your activity and information? The standards of privacy for the billion-dollar website are being questioned now more than ever. Polls are showing that Facebook is less trusted among users than other mega-websites that carry your personal information.
Besides the obvious apprehensive circumstances, are you using your Facebook account regularly? Have you become tired of the same pretentious Instagram photos of Starbucks lattes constantly popping up on your mini-feed? Or the pointless status updates like “TIRED, LOLLOLOLOLOLL!” or “It’s raining!!!”? I personally can’t stand the endless self-portraits of people with no make-up, begging friends to comment “OMG guuurrrl you are soooooo pretty
Usually this site is visited to cure boredom, see what your friends are up to and mini-stalk. Oh wait, now you can’t do that! Activity is now on display as Facebook will tell you who has viewed your group posts, and the tool could potentially spread to other features throughout the site. Will Facebook realize it’s throwing too many wrenches in its well-oiled machine that has ruled social media for years now and influenced online personalities?
Do you still use Facebook more than ever or has your activity slowed down? Why?
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facebook is deff getting boring.
i hardly update…
guest
Agreed. Like I had any friends in the first place… ha… but the only reason I really go on now, SERIOUSLY, is to check in with old friends (very few) and see how they’re doing, cheer on acquaintances, and most of all, keep my family in the loop with pictures and what I’ve been up to. It is getting boring. I was never completely into it because, well, I don’t have many friends. But it’s there, it’s nice to be connected somehow when you’re at a distance, and I don’t know if it’ll be going away very soon.
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i deleted it before they switched me to timeline i think in march? i just reached the point where i knew it had more negatives then positives and i knew i wouldn’t delete then reactivate it this time. they’re violating my privacy, theres too much unnecessary drama, and if a person wants to contact me they can use my number which hasn’t changed in 2 years or my email which ill have for a long time.
also theres so little information. i never felt comfortable updating (in the last two years when it became an unspoken rule to give some information about your life, but very little.), and peoples updates in general really had nothing to do with their life. there just wasn’t anything there. people saved the good/interesting things for twitter. the fb status updates were really mediocre and facebook in general seemed to evolve into being really boring, invasive, and too much information. at the end of the day i just don’t think its natural the way things are arranged.
guest
I recently deactivated my account because it was always the same annoying people on my newsfeed complaining about the same things over and over. Plus most of my friends rarely go on. I talk to them more face to face or on the phone than I do on facebook.
guest
I still get on regularly like I use to.
It does get boring after a while. It’s the same old, same old. Whiny/spoiled kids complaining about their insignificant, first world problems. Blah blah blah. I keep on scrolling throw my newsfeed.
I’m not a big fan of the timeline. I’m not crazy about the timeline’s layout, and how it looks on screen. I still have the old facebook layout. I’m not changing to timeline anytime soon, unless facebook does that for me. Everybody will have timeline in the future.
peony / 1 posts
i want to delete mine, but certain clubs and groups i am involved in only post events on facebook :/
Its sickening how obvious it is when people are trying to make themselves look cool. Its just another tool to compare yourself to others and encourage insecurities.
guest
Although facebook is a fantastic way to hook up with far flung family and friends who it is otherwise laborious to get in touch with, and particularly excellent for notifying or updating during family crisis, I got so sick of being wall bombed by cousins I hadn’t seen in years or oddball stalkers friending on because they were really after my brother or something, among other stuff, even with all the privacy options you have to be extremely diligent so you don’t hurt the wrong feelings, etc, I finally just deleted and walked off for a year. THAT was refreshing. No pressure, no one bugging (or ignoring), mutual respect was restored through live voice or face to face contact, and my whole world calmed way down. Facebook was extremely stressful for me, thanx to hundreds (via networking) of people constantly linking, tagging, and otherwise trying to start upsetting ’discussions’ that didn’t belong in social forums. It was like half of everyone’s social IQ either dropped 50 points or they used facebook as a mask and stalked each other. Really don’t like seeing the worst in my family come out in public like that.
guest
Facebook has become stale. I prefer other social networks, qq and baidu are much more interesting , so is foursquare.
Maintaining facebook merely because of FB pages.
africasiaeuro strange
guest
I get more fed up with the people who moan about Facebook, but use it anyway.
guest
I have a mixed opinion. I first found timeline cool, but it is so hard to actually control it and it took ages to delete old posts that I don’t want to be found so easily. It looks untidy and confusing and I don’t like it.
On the bright site, facebook has improved their privacy options. It used to suck immensly, for example a year or so ago there wasn’t even an option to not allow photo-tags. You had to remove them.
Now I think it is the best site out there when it comes to controlling who sees what, and that makes it great as a networking site.
Advertising and data collection isn’t really a concern for me, as I don’t reveal my true identity (at least not in an obvious way). I even find personalized ads useful, I ‘liked’ a lot of stuff they suggested to me, and found nice communities. I also found interesting job offers on the side bar.
Other than timeline, I think the constant changes are confusing users..it is extremely hard to navigate as soon as there is something new, and no I don’t want ‘to take a tour’ all the time. They would also gain trust if it was possible to actually delete a profile i think.
guest
@under_the_carpet@xanga - You actually CAN delete your profile. Here is the link:
https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account
guest
And I am getting tired of Facebook. It’s the same things over and over again. However, with the recent Batman shooting here (I’m sure you’ve heard of it) it is a quick and easy way to keep up on the happenings of the Police Department, news sources, and all that type of stuff. If I wasn’t in charge of it for my job, I would have already gotten rid of it.
guest
I didn’t like Facebook before it was cool to not like Facebook.
Seriously, though, who do they think they are? The US government?
guest
I love facebook, and HATE twitter. I refuse to switch.
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I never post anything on FB that isn’t open to the public, I mean it is on the internet…. why would you put ANYTHING on the internet that was not for the public. Anyways I use it as an instant messenger and net working. I go to a lot of anime conventions and I work/run a few too, so I use Facebook to gather more contacts for my work. It also helps to see who is up at 1am in the morning when I need help with homework.
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what? i can’t stalk anymore?! :I