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U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison Research says

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1293 points rmason | 1 comments | 06 Mar 19 20:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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ebertx ◴[06 Mar 19 22:09 UTC] No.19323398[source]▶
I disabled my Facebook account 4 years or so ago and didn't miss it. That said, I now have a daughter with an extremely rare genetic disorder. Although there are a number of databases out there specifically to help parents find other families with rare genetic disorders, we didn't find anyone until we resorted to Facebook. This is only one anecdote, but from my personal experience thus far, Facebook is still unfortunately the best place to find a needle in a haystack.
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1. efields ◴[06 Mar 19 22:17 UTC] No.19323466[source]▶
(edit: typo) FB has completely swallowed the Groups space. We are new parents and my wife connects with other new parents in a local group specific to our son's age cohort. FB Marketplace is also very useful, as other people have mentioned. I got off FB services a few months ago, but would join again if they had a standalone Groups app.