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11 Million Users Abandon Facebook

Tuesday, September 17, 2013 13:52
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Users vacate Facebook over serious privacy concerns

Julie Wilson
Infowars.com
September 17, 2013

A new report by the Daily Mail reveals Facebook users are abandoning the social media giant at an unprecedented rate over privacy concerns.

Photo: Sebastien Wiertz via Flickr

Photo: Sebastien Wiertz via Flickr

New research shows Facebook has lost a total of eleven million users, nine million in the US and two million in Britain. Researchers at the University of Vienna analyzed 600 users and found they quit for the following reasons:

Privacy concerns – 48.3 percent
General dissatisfaction – 13.5 percent
Shallow conversations – 12.6 percent
Fear of becoming addicted – 6 percent

Studies show the majority of users that quit the site were older males.

Facebook, among other tech giants, have been repeatedly under scrutiny for their lack of user privacy, including turning over thousands of user’s info to the government. In August, Infowars revealed Facebook submitted information on approximately 38,000 users in 74 countries during the first half of 2013.

Over half of the requests originated from inside of the United States. Tech giants are unable to reveal absolute numbers on how many requests they’ve submitted to because the government prohibits them from doing so. However, companies like Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Yahoo have formed a unique alliance and are fighting back.

The tech alliance is putting pressure on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) court by filing motions asking to publicly disclose more details about secret national intelligence requests, instead of  just releasing approximations.

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  • I hope everybody quits it. There are other ways to communicate.

  • Buy Facebook shares. You schmucks! Buy Facebook shares. You schmucks! Buy Facebook shares. You schmucks! Buy Facebook shares. You schmucks! :twisted:

  • wizard

    Letter writing. Sorry, you probably do not know how that works. :grin:

  • i wish i’z smart enough to make an alternative. i’d need a hell of a lot less than a billion dollars to get the hell outta here!

  • Delete your facebook, turn off your computer, and go hang out with people in this realm. Idiots!! :razz:

  • shivram

    After the NSA story broke out, I started taking steps to protect my privacy. First i checked out of Facebook, Gmail and Linkedin that I was using most often. For email i switched over to unseen.is and for social networking I created my own wooiswoo.com

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