Google searches for deleting Facebook, Instagram on the rise after Meta ends fact-checking | TechCrunch

i'm so tired of nothingburger feel good 'stories' about search trends

this really is just reddit lite

Dropped Facebook completely in 2018 my mental health was much better for it

I've never had even a single Facebook account, to explain why it's because the UK police once tried to stitch me up and they kept demanding my Facebook account (presumably to fish) I never had one but they would not let that go.

Once I got representation that line of questioning ended but holy hell did they seem to put a lot of emphasis on my non existent Facebook account.

For the curious I was raided due to an anonymous phone (to the mayor's office) call that claimed I was going to shoot up my workplace or something ridiculous.

My belief is the police wanted to impress the mayor so they just wouldn't let it go despite being nonsense until I paid representation to make them behave.

People should've dropped FB back in 2016 or when the Cambridge Analytica happened.

I am now scheduled for deletion.

I have no clue why anyone takes this seriously or is concerned about this. I have seen maybe three fact-checks during my lifetime on Facebook. That was a long long time ago. I disagreed with two of them and I am not sure if the third one said anything interesting.

Is there a population somewhere I am not aware of, who believes everything they see on Facebook, who will now be ruined by this change?

he's replacing it with community notes, which is a good thing. the problem i have with Facebook and Instagram is all the useless junk videos that i didn't ask for and it keeps showing me

He's getting very Trumpy with the orange tint and pale skin around the eyes.

According to Google Trends, related searches like “how to delete all photos facebook,” “alternative to facebook,” “how to quit facebook,” “how to delete threads account,” and “how to delete instagram account without logging in” have become breakout searches, with popularity suddenly increasing by over 5,000% compared to previous periods.

So that is 51 times higher than usual? Am I mathing that correctly?

I wish stories like this wouldn't use percentages this way, and reported hard actual numbers to compare against.

Will never happen. Those platforms literally push addiction. It’s why the fediverse won’t ever compete imo - there’s no dopamine hit here of likes, # of friends, send a snap right now (or whatever they are called), streaks, etc.

I only had to google it because they make it so convoluted to find the delete account button.

I posted that article on Mastodon. So, yeah...

I hope more people will find that these open source social media sites are much better run. As well, as a much better platform than Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, etc.

Although, I do miss Myspace. The old platform.

I deactivated my Twitter and Facebook accounts weeks ago. I have my friends and family "moved over" to Friendica. They seem to like it so far. I have even posted (on Friendica) a few links of other open source social sites for them to check out.

Super easy, barely an inconvenience. The age of social media needs to die

Once these platforms are perceived as a way for people to make a living somehow, they ain’t leaving. That’s why nice places like mastodon stay niche. Without virality, people don’t see the upside for them. They want a grift they can understand.

I just need to convince my relatives to use Signal..

that's some glorious schadenfreude

zuck just few hours ago: "people who talk about leaving facebook are just virtue signalling"

It comes preinstalled in a lot of phones and cant be uninstalled and in some phones they dont preinstall the main fb app instead they'd have something like 'facebook manager' or 'something service' which only shows up in app list when you select the "show system apps" option.

Gud gud

Just look at the Proton situation - there will always be soyflakes who will wanna protest even the smallest things that don't fit their agenda.

no fact checking and a ton of bots being added? Sounds like a fantastic place to spend time. /s

stop upvoting "news" that only ends up giving more visibility to these clowns

I'm waiting to see what happens before I make any moves. I've been on Meta apps for over a decade, I don't want to lose the connections if I don't have to.

Critics see the move as an attempt to cater to the incoming Trump administration and avoid political retaliation,

Give me a break. Since when does the billionaire parasite class have anything to fear from the US establishment?

I don't care about Facebook, but Messenger and Marketplace I cannot replace them at all for the moment :-/