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Facebook did report the first decline in monthly active users (MAU), is this the turning point [1]? Ive always wondered if facebook would die a quick death or a slow crawl. Wonder who gains from this ? twitter resurgance ? dont think so, snap ? not so sure, time for google to give another go to push google+?

1. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/31/facebook-north-america-daus-...

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Maybe resurgence of old school face to face in person talk or if not that extreme then a phone call or an email?

Lets have a #wirelesslessday

Twitter resurgence? Is there one? I am basically turned off Twitter far more than I am Facebook at the moment. The signal to noise ratio there has tilted FAR into the red zone of late. The proliferation of bots, and the ability for anyone with a pulse and a stupid meme graphic to plaster them into any conversation has just killed the conversational or learning capacity of that platform for me.

I'd love to get off both Twitter and Facebook, but that network effect...

I went and had a look at Vero, but it doesn't allow posting text, only associated with an image, movie, link or book. I checked how Diaspora was going, but the most popular pods have 2K users, and there are no pods in NZ or even Australia.

I guess I should get off my chuff and set up a New Zealand pod, but life is full enough already without taking that on.

Maybe we should all go back to blogging.

ah the network effect. Same reason im still on fb. Diaspora is brilliant but I feel its never going to capture the imagination of the general public. Maybe we should all go back to blogging. - if only, sigh I get more and more depressed browsing my fb newsfeed (which I mostly do when I am taking a shit and run out of things to read)

Here in Germany, a new social network called Vero, seems to be making some ground.

It's following the same model as WhatsApp of it being free to join for anyone up until a certain point and then they'll charge money.

And yes, I do love the thought of Vero being bought by Facebook at some point in the future, too.

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