RE: Facebook – You are Dead to Me Now
It's funny how this works, as centralised Facebook becomes ever more authoritarian by it's frantic creator the cannibalisation index rises. Facebook has a whole host of problems right at the plateau of it's usage, people are jumping ship to Steemit who prefer freedom and decentralisation, people are leaving because of policy changes, people are running away because they are realising all Facebook really is, is an information harvesting gigantic tapeworm that sucks out all that is good and leaves you as an addicted zombie scrolling down endless piles of bile that makes up the majority of the content there. All intellectual and beneficial content is running away from Facebook to Steemit, yes Steemit has it's issues but Zuckerberg is not one of them.
Here is an image from a Zerohedge article displaying where Facebook is in its shelf life.
Interesting. I think that might be external searches. The people I care about are searching inside of fb. The searches in there are way down if you go by me and the connections I have talked to.
We have less than 10K of "people who matter" at steemit. That needs to grow exponentially if we are to succeed.
I am not too sure because the article doesn't elaborate, but you can clearly see it has plateaued in a similar fashion to the Myspace trend. It's not just that, I see a general distaste for Facebook these days more and more, it's like it has gotten old and lost it's shine. I think even if people are not using Steemit or another platform they are just using Facebook less and less.
I believe Steemit will grow and we are still at early adoption phase, according to that pic there is less than 1 million users (Facebook has over 2 billion), many of which will not be using Steemit as their main platform..... yet.
You can look at the @acange blog here to see this report generated daily. 677K of those steemit users are considered to be dead accounts by his method of counting.
I count the people over minnow status as "mattering" since something like 90%+ of minnows give up after only a short time here. So that is less than 10K. We need many more than that to succeed here.
I'm definitely seeing people leave fb these days. They either announce if or are not posting if I go to their profiles.
Oh wow ok, lot's of inactive accounts on Steemit then, perhaps they are just lying dormant and many will fire up In the next bull run as word gets out and Facebook declines. It won't happen immediately but over a gradual time span.