October 27, 2006 at 16:45"Thousands" leave social networks
Perhaps, right now, in 2006, the first generation of users appeared on the Web who voluntarily refuse to use social networks because they became too popular characters there.
At first glance, this may seem strange. Regular users of MySpace , Livejournal and other social networks are working hard to increase their popularity and the number of friends - for them, this is a measure of success. It turns out, not for everyone. Too many readers can scare away the owners of some diaries, because initially they did not count on such publicity.
Excessive popularity can lead to the fact that in the comments instead of an interesting conversation, meaningless noise will appear - dozens of replicas of one or two words, which is very annoying to the author. In addition, spam may also appear there.
The most popular blogs have already begun to attract the attention of spammers. To send spam to MySpace, you use the “frending” function, that is, newsletters with an invitation to join a number of friends. The difference is that instead of a friendly message such mailings are carried out contain advertising. Programs for mass automatic mailing of this kind, for example, FriendBot.com and FriendAdder.com, have already been created and are successfully selling at the price of $ 20 .
According to Nielsen / NetRatings statistics, the two largest US social networks MySpaceand Facebook in September lost some of their audience. The number of unique MySpace visitors in August-September decreased by 4% (from 49.2 to 47.2 million), while Facebook lost even 12% (from 8.9 to 7.8 million). Analysts believe these are regular seasonal fluctuations. For example, last September the same situation was observed - teenagers go to school and spend less time on online entertainment. However, against the backdrop of seasonal fluctuations, another, more important trend may be invisible - the departure of users.
Neither MySpace nor Facebook have disclosed information about how many users have deleted their accounts in recent times, as well as how many among them were “thousand people” - people with more than a thousand friends.
Senior users are often unhappy that “their native service” is becoming too popular and attracts millions of neophytes. For example, nearly 3,000 Facebook old-timers signed an official petition asking them to restrict the influx of new users by allowing only students to be admitted.
Some users leave social networks because they lose control of private information. Any stranger can in a few minutes find out all your ins and outs through the Internet. Privacy completely disappears, and only the complete deletion of the account can help here.
At first glance, this may seem strange. Regular users of MySpace , Livejournal and other social networks are working hard to increase their popularity and the number of friends - for them, this is a measure of success. It turns out, not for everyone. Too many readers can scare away the owners of some diaries, because initially they did not count on such publicity.
Excessive popularity can lead to the fact that in the comments instead of an interesting conversation, meaningless noise will appear - dozens of replicas of one or two words, which is very annoying to the author. In addition, spam may also appear there.
The most popular blogs have already begun to attract the attention of spammers. To send spam to MySpace, you use the “frending” function, that is, newsletters with an invitation to join a number of friends. The difference is that instead of a friendly message such mailings are carried out contain advertising. Programs for mass automatic mailing of this kind, for example, FriendBot.com and FriendAdder.com, have already been created and are successfully selling at the price of $ 20 .
According to Nielsen / NetRatings statistics, the two largest US social networks MySpaceand Facebook in September lost some of their audience. The number of unique MySpace visitors in August-September decreased by 4% (from 49.2 to 47.2 million), while Facebook lost even 12% (from 8.9 to 7.8 million). Analysts believe these are regular seasonal fluctuations. For example, last September the same situation was observed - teenagers go to school and spend less time on online entertainment. However, against the backdrop of seasonal fluctuations, another, more important trend may be invisible - the departure of users.
Neither MySpace nor Facebook have disclosed information about how many users have deleted their accounts in recent times, as well as how many among them were “thousand people” - people with more than a thousand friends.
Senior users are often unhappy that “their native service” is becoming too popular and attracts millions of neophytes. For example, nearly 3,000 Facebook old-timers signed an official petition asking them to restrict the influx of new users by allowing only students to be admitted.
Some users leave social networks because they lose control of private information. Any stranger can in a few minutes find out all your ins and outs through the Internet. Privacy completely disappears, and only the complete deletion of the account can help here.