Thursday, June 30, 2011

Facebook users in Europe and America to escape or leak because of user privacy

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World's most popular social networking site Facebook is no longer a charm? According to the latest statistics, the number of U.S. users of the site in early May has been reduced to 155.2 million 149.4 million the end of May, or about 600 million people off accounts, has shrunk by 3.7%, which is the first time user of the site to reduce the United States. Concern is that Canada is the hardest hit, greatly reduced 1.52 million users last month, only 16.6 million. Europe's biggest country on Facebook, users have increased to 30 million of the UK, last month, there are 10 million users leave Facebook. Norway and Russia last month were more than 10 million users and Facebook say goodbye.

Although some months before the small number of new users of Facebook, but has never been a continuous decrease and, therefore, this situation is unusual. Specializing in Facebook's head of Eldon website Inside Facebook Facebook advertising tools made by the above data, the credibility of this data is guaranteed. Eldon and then learn from the market point of view of users exodus that when Facebook users in a number of countries increased to half of the population, the growth will slow down or even stop. There are comments that exodus was triggered by the user fatigue, the same as male-female relationships, there is no novelty, people will forget the old like new. This is to be the industry compared to Facebook and Google concluded: Facebook user loyalty is much lower than Google, which will lead to continued development of the former negative effect. Some hold that it is harbinger of recession after the heyday Facebook, the social networking sites like MySpace may be the same, become silent.

Facebook is now well-known seven-year member of the development time from 0 to 600 million members worldwide, becoming the Google hits after the world's most Web sites, social networking sites to create a legend. The "Internet population" to calculate, it is already the world's third largest country. According to the author's observation, Facebook users may be due also to reduce the site's privacy vulnerabilities directly related to - the disclosure of the issue of user privacy has been the subject of criticism. In fact, Facebook was discovered there in recent years, many privacy vulnerabilities, in April last year, Facebook launched an instant personalized program that allows advertisers to get user information, if you do not want to share information, need to change the privacy settings on their own, but set be very complicated procedure, so some people remove the Facebook account of the campaign launched, triggering a wave of mass delete accounts. Last October, the vast majority of U.S. media exposure of Facebook applications to pass user ID to track online activities and to sell advertising company, disclosure of user privacy, Facebook confirmed that the incident afterwards, but denied that it was deliberate. Just a few months ago, Facebook launched a new feature that lets Facebook and smart phones can synchronize data within the phone, so that the user's mobile phone, office phone number on Facebook glance, people have logged on using a mobile phone in the move, after the big Call taken, many users started to complain about the site this function, encourage more users to flee Facebook.

Concern is with social networking sites in Europe and America gradually saturated the market, Facebook has attention shifted to Japan, Korea and other Asian countries and Cuba, Brazil and other developing countries. Data show that continuous months, the number of Facebook users in these countries a certain degree of growth. However, compared with the direct use of Facebook, most of these countries are more cautious users, tend to support local social networking sites.

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