{"id":73231,"date":"2018-11-01T15:45:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T12:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluflamingo.digital\/?p=73231"},"modified":"2018-11-01T15:45:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T12:45:24","slug":"facebook-users-are-changing-behaviors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluflamingo.net\/blog\/facebook-users-are-changing-behaviors\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Users Are Changing Behaviors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has been under a lot of scrutiny this year, and that\u2019s contributed to some\u00a0changes in user behavior\u00a0that have shifted quickly.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-73232 size-full alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/bluflamingo.digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/FacebookRelationship_taken-a-break.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" height=\"373\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2018\/09\/05\/americans-are-changing-their-relationship-with-facebook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2018\/09\/05\/americans-are-changing-their-relationship-with-facebook\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1541161711048000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHYTxz72jsgYXojpSGbrShZUuTs7w\">Pew Research Center<\/a>\u00a0polled 4500 people to determine what exactly these changes were, and here\u2019s what they found:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"m_-2917543374497481944gmail-m_6138420861573623575m_2633894128048236301gmail-list-custom m_-2917543374497481944gmail-m_6138420861573623575m_2633894128048236301gmail-points-list\">\n<li>More than half of users over the age of 18 have adjusted their privacy settings in the past year<\/li>\n<li>42% of Facebook users have taken a break from Facebook in the past year, with up to 26% even going as far as deleting the app from their phone<\/li>\n<li>74% of users have either modified their privacy settings, reduced how often they check Facebook\u00a0or deleted the app from their phone.<\/li>\n<li>Younger users (ages 18 to 29) were most likely to have deleted the app from their phones<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While these numbers don\u2019t look great,\u00a0there isn\u2019t a cause for panic.\u00a0Facebook still has around\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/346167\/facebook-global-dau\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/346167\/facebook-global-dau\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1541161711048000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG2Fqe6jgBgLnqBosaCa2rnjXuU5g\">1.47 daily active users<\/a>, and mobile usage is still increasing across the board.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately,\u00a0creating mobile-first content is\u00a0still\u00a0important, \u00a0and\u00a0mobile ad placements are\u00a0stilldriving results.<\/p>\n<p>As Facebook earns back trust and users adapt to further changes, these behaviors may shift again, after all. We\u2019ll keep you updated.<\/p>\n<p>And now let\u2019s dive into a whole lot of\u00a0Facebook updates for September 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has been under a lot of scrutiny this year, and that\u2019s contributed to some\u00a0changes in user behavior\u00a0that have shifted quickly. The\u00a0Pew Research Center\u00a0polled 4500 people to determine what exactly these changes were, and here\u2019s what they found: More than half of users over the age of 18 have adjusted their privacy settings in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletter","category-november"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Facebook Users Are Changing Behaviors | Newsletter, November | BLU Flamingo<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Facebook has been under a lot of scrutiny this year, and that\u2019s contributed to some\u00a0changes in user behavior\u00a0that have shifted quickly. 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