{"id":383537,"date":"2018-11-03T21:15:35","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T20:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/losing-users-mark-zuckerbergs-facebook-problems\/"},"modified":"2018-11-03T21:15:35","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T20:15:35","slug":"losing-users-mark-zuckerbergs-facebook-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/losing-users-mark-zuckerbergs-facebook-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Losing Users: Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s Facebook Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>His detractors and enemies have been waiting some time for this, but it must have given them moments of mild cheer.\u00a0 Facebook, the all-gazing, accumulating system of personal profiles and information, poster child, in fact, of surveillance capitalism, is losing users. At the very least, it is falling to that mild phenomenon in business speak called \u201cflat-lining\u201d, a deceptively benign term suggesting that the fizz is going out of the product.<\/p>\n<p>This week, Mark Zuckerberg has been more humble than usual.\u00a0 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2018\/10\/mark-zuckerberg-is-still-losing-facebook-users-earnings-call\">latest figures<\/a> show that 1.49 billion users hop on the platform daily; monthly active users come in at 2.27 billion.\u00a0 While both figures are increases from previous metrics, these fall shy of those bubbly estimates Facebook loves forecasting: 1.51 billion in the former; 2.29 billion in the latter.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re well behind YouTube\u201d, he observed; in \u201cdeveloped countries\u201d, Zuckerberg conceded that his company was probably reaching saturation.\u00a0 While security features of Facebook had improved, there was at least another twelve months before the standard was, in his view, up to scratch.<\/p>\n<p>The user market in North America is flat, while in Europe, FB has experienced a loss of 3 million daily active users.\u00a0 The process was already underway after 2015.\u00a0 The moment your grandparents start using a communications product with teenage enthusiasm, it\u2019s time for a swift, contrarian change. But social media, as with other forms of communication, is a matter of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/11\/losing-users-mark-zuckerbergs-facebook-problems\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His detractors and enemies have been waiting some time for this, but it must have given them moments of mild cheer.\u00a0 Facebook, the all-gazing, accumulating system of personal profiles and information, poster child, in fact, of surveillance capitalism, is losing users. At the very least, it is falling to that mild phenomenon in business speak [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-383537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}