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| Facebook news use declining, WhatsApp growing | |
| 2018-06-16 | |
Usage of Facebook, the world’s largest social network, for news is down 9 percentage points from 2017 in the US and down 20 points for younger audiences, according to the Rooters Institute survey of 74,000 people in 37 markets. "The use of social media for news has started to fall in a number of key markets after years of continuous growth," Nic Newman, research associate at the Rooters Institute for the Study of Journalism, said in the Digital News Report. "We continue to see a rise in the use of messaging apps for news as consumers look for more private [and less confrontational] spaces to communicate," Newman said. Facebook and Twitter are still used by many users to discover news but the discussion then takes place on messaging apps such as WhatsApp, often because people feel less vulnerable discussing events on such apps. "Social media is like wearing a mask," an unidentified UK female respondent from the 30-45 age group was quoted as saying. "When I am in my messaging groups with my friends, the mask comes off and I feel like I can truly be myself." | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Most discussions of current events I overhear are a waste of breath & time. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-06-16 13:39 |
| #3 As Admiral Grace Hooper said during an attended lecture - Automation and the Privacy Act are mutually exclusive (circa 1981). |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-06-16 09:15 |
| #2 Facebook? Fok no! I'm a pretty common fellow, sort of private if you will, with average means and ambitions. You'd not be interested. Our time here is precious, so be a good neighbor and bugger off: Codependency is a controversial and likely pseudoscientific concept that refers to a type of dysfunctional helping relationship where one person supports or enables another person's drug addiction, alcoholism, gambling addiction, poor mental health, immaturity, irresponsibility, or under-achievement. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-06-16 06:58 |
| #1 I never was on it. I really don't feel I missed anything at all. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2018-06-16 04:32 |