15-million US Facebook Users Have Deleted Their Accounts

AZ — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 10:00:02 +0000

Despite Facebook gets more than 600 million hits on monthly basis, Its been reported that Facebook is experiencing huge number of users going away from facebook and deleting their accounts. Especially users from US and Canada are removing themselves from Facebook every month.

According to Inside Facebook, 687 million users visited Facebook in June 2011, however growth rate has been a lot less if you compare it to the last 2 months. The reason are given is that Facebook users are leaving the social networking site due to privacy concerns. According to the report 15 million users from US removed their account and approximately 5.5 million Canadians have removed themselves from Facebook

Myron Blue of Wired Magazine said: “The party is over for Facebook. People are tired of all the add-ons and they are growing more and more concerned about their privacy. Most importantly, they are bored and have decided to move on”.

Most Worried news for facebook is that students, who are original audiances of Facebook, no longer consider Facebook as a cool tool to communicate with friends.

17-year-old Jimmy Batlon from New Orleans said: “Facebook is for old people and losers. We want something new, something for our generation”.

However, Despite accepting that millions are removing their facebook accounts, Facebook doesn’t agree with dropping of growth rate. Facebook spokesperson said: “Yes, many in the U.K., Canada and the United States are getting off Facebook, but we are growing in places like Mexico and Uganda”.

1 in 3 Facebook Users Says They Have Been Bullied Online

AZ — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:17:17 +0000

Bullying has been in the news lately, but the revelations about Gordon Brown’s alleged shoving and swearing have diverted attention from other aggressive behavior that is growing and seems to be uncontrolled.

Internet bullying has seen very few trials, but because the daily misery of the victims and may end in suicide.

Social networking sites are popular with young Britons – about half are members, with 5.2 million 13 to 19 years subscribed to Facebook.

It is a great way to exchange news and keep in touch, but the downside can be huge, with one in three say they have been bullied online.

Social networking sites are impossible to police because of the large amount of material, with the result that a large amount of content is highly controversial.

A quick trawl shows how gangs use these sites to post threatening material intended to impress their rivals and scare off opponents.

Stuart Cunningham, Warwickshire, published a photo of himself in a hideous mask, brandishing a large knife in one site.

He is a gang member crew Overslade, in Rugby, where up to six rival gangs vie for territory and a series of fires resulted in the death of an elderly couple.

The Internet is where these bands post their threats and brandishing their weapons, and yet the police seem powerless to do anything about it until someone has been injured.

The Internet allows young people to glorify violence, presenting themselves as “soldiers” in their version of urban warfare and intimidate those who they please.

Rhys Jones was murdered in Liverpool in 2007 by a member of the Croxteth Crew, and five other gang members were convicted.

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