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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: 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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diminoten ◴[06 Mar 19 23:27 UTC] No.19324042[source]▶
Oh yeah definitely, it's got nothing to do with privacy, it's just not a platform geared towards younger people, because it's a platform that caters to older people.

Kids these days don't give a shit about privacy. Why would they?

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1. Barrin92 ◴[07 Mar 19 02:11 UTC] No.19325003[source]▶
Because their entire history will be a matter of public record, and as we have seen repeatedly over the last few years, a wrong tweet from ten years ago can break an entire career, and I only see this getting worse. The kids who take care of what they expose to the public will spare themselves a lot of potential trouble.

Obviously this should not only be an issue of the kids. In an ideal world parents would be conscious of their kids online behavior.