Study Reveals Heavy Facebook Usage by Smartphone Owners Discussion

[Ryan Punzalan]

According to a recently released mobile behavior measurement service, Mobile Metrix 2.0 by comScore, smartphone users spend a lot of time on social media apps such as Facebook.

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[Adama D. Brown]

This is particularly interesting on the heels of the admission by Facebook in recent financial filings that they don't really know yet how to capitalize on mobile users--their usual ad-supported model doesn't work on a smartphone, and the increased use of smartphones for Facebook has been negatively hitting their revenues.

[Hook]

What's Facebbook?

[weegie]

What's Facebbook?

I think it's similar to a sstutter?

I remove FB and twitter/IM apps as a matter of course and read quite a few others do as well, having a mobile phone and text/email is intrusive enough for me without being exposed to even more trash I shouldn't have time for.
Humanity is in a sad state when we have people who's self worth is stimulated by how many 'followers' or 'friends' they have in some sort of pseudo existence outside reality.
I guess I just don't get the whole social networking thing...and probably never will, a guy I worked with years ago sent me an email inviting me to join his list of Linkedin contacts, I thought ok no harm in that, seems business orientated and all, next thing I'm being spammed by Linkedin emails asking me to update my profile etc etc etc.....bye bye being part of my ex co workers professional contacts on Linkedin.

[Drillbit]

I almost never use Facebook on the web. It is only when I want to add more people and post funny pics from my PC when I open the web version. I tend to share stuff via the Android Share to feature to the Facebook app, without opening the main Facebook app itself, take a note of push notifications from the Facebook app, and use Facebook Messenger as a quasi SMS service to my friends and family. In fact, my Facebook activity tends to be just external even of the mobile app itself.

[Mitlov]

Humanity is in a sad state when we have people who's self worth is stimulated by how many 'followers' or 'friends' they have in some sort of pseudo existence outside reality.

That's not the point of social networking. I make daily or weekly small-talk with high school or college friends who live anywhere from 300 miles away to literally on the other side of the planet...people who, without social networking, probably would have slowly faded out of my life. I see how cute their kid is on the local trip to the park. I joke about the insane thing that happened on their morning commute. It's not about knowing when they got married and where they're working...Christmas letters were always good enough for that. It's about small, short chats about little things in our daily lives, new albums, whatever...the sort of thing that makes a difference between someone being "someone you knew" and "a friend."

[weegie]

Seems to be for some though.
Friend is a very overused word in the social networking era.
I think you will find that old friends will still fade out of your life with social networking, without physical interaction with friends and associated relationship growth your new spouse/child/job/car/house/album tends to become trivial and of no interest to people you used to hang with.
SN to me is lazy friendship at best for people who prefer to have their head buried in electronics than talk to someone next to them who would likely be a much better friend.....but then I don't partake in it, so likely will never understand what it's like to have a couple of hundred really really close friends

PS. the new emoticons are like indistinguishable blobs admins

[Mitlov]

Seems to be for some though.
Friend is a very overused word in the social networking era.
I think you will find that old friends will still fade out of your life with social networking, without physical interaction with friends and associated relationship growth your new spouse/child/job/car/house/album tends to become trivial and of no interest to people you used to hang with.

Since you "don't partake in it," this is speculation at best for you. I'm telling you, from first-hand experience, that your speculation is wrong, at least for me and a lot of people I know.

SN to me is lazy friendship at best for people who prefer to have their head buried in electronics than talk to someone next to them who would likely be a much better friend

It's always helpful to attack the character of people who like different stuff than you do.

[LandSurveyor]

Before the battle lines get drawn, let me admit/declare that I'm a determinant non-Facebooker myself. I've just read too much stuff about the embarassing or even damaging messes people have gotten themselves into. I understand that this is usually due to ignorance about using the proper settings and permissions but these are likely the sorts of mistakes I would make so I would just rather not take the risk.

That and the disturbing tendency of employers to do online searches on employees and even insisting on access to employees' private information.. Considering all the time I spent the past two years desperately searching for a job, that was one worry I could do without.

On the plus side, I do get updates and photos (via my wife, who is an avid FB'er) about, for example, my cousin's family in Texas. I've never even seen their kids but do at least see photos of them frequently.

Of course, she could just as easily have an email list.

More to the point of this thread, I think the mobile app was inevitable but I can also see the easy constant access to FB is ripe for abuse by people who are already FB addicts.

And the quickest way FB can monetize mobile is by inserting ads. I note with dismay that the last "improvement" to my Yahoo Mobile app was a banner ad that takes up over a quarter inch of my Galaxy's screen and I find myself accidentally clicking the darned thing all the time.

[brickman65]

That's not the point of social networking. I make daily or weekly small-talk with high school or college friends who live anywhere from 300 miles away to literally on the other side of the planet...people who, without social networking, probably would have slowly faded out of my life. I see how cute their kid is on the local trip to the park. I joke about the insane thing that happened on their morning commute. It's not about knowing when they got married and where they're working...Christmas letters were always good enough for that. It's about small, short chats about little things in our daily lives, new albums, whatever...the sort of thing that makes a difference between someone being "someone you knew" and "a friend."

Well said and I completely agree. SN sites, like any tool can be mis-used. (and often are!) I mean look at how people talk to other people in forums. Would people be as "brave" face to face as they are behind their keyboards??