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

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1293 points rmason | 3 comments | 06 Mar 19 20:30 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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JohnFen ◴[06 Mar 19 21:49 UTC] No.19323209[source]▶
I'm not sure losing that age group has much to do with Facebook's scandals.

This is purely anecdotal, but with my daughter and her social group, Facebook stopped being a service of interest to them quite a while back. Not because of data issues, but because (to use my daughter's words) "Facebook is for businesses and old people".

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Leace ◴[06 Mar 19 21:54 UTC] No.19323265[source]▶
What does your daughter use to connect with friends? Just curious.
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JohnFen ◴[06 Mar 19 22:42 UTC] No.19323689[source]▶
> What does your daughter use to connect with friends?

Steam and SMS, primarily. WhatsApp, too, but to a lesser degree.

And, probably, something else that I'm not aware of.

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1. throwaway66666 ◴[06 Mar 19 22:51 UTC] No.19323787[source]▶
Steam? Can you please elaborate, I am getting old I didn't even know steam had a social component. (except people leaving reviews, or posting to game forums about parts of the game)
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2. luminiferous ◴[06 Mar 19 22:55 UTC] No.19323819[source]▶
Steam has a pretty robust messaging system including multi-user rooms and voice chat, etc. They're directly competing with Discord on that front now. There's groups and communities and other social components as well, though I'm not as familiar with those.
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