YouTube Will Soon Pass Facebook As Second Biggest Website In US (cnbc.com) 65
According to a new study from market research firm SimilarWeb, Facebook may cede its runner-up position to YouTube in the next two to three months. Currently, the top five most-visited websites in the U.S. are Google, Facebook, YouTube, Yahoo and Amazon, in that order. However, Facebook's monthly page visits are declining rapidly, from 8.5 billion to 4.7 billion in the last two years, which could shake up that order. CNBC reports: YouTube, which is owned by Google parent Alphabet, has seen increased traffic, the study said. The app has also experienced in increase in viewership. Yahoo is also poised to lose its position in the ranking. Amazon has already surpassed Yahoo during big spending months, including December 2017 and July 2018, when the e-commerce giant held its annual Prime Day. The study projects that Amazon will take over Yahoo's ranking in the next two to three months. However, none of the bottom four of the top five comes close to Google. Although it has seen some decline in website traffic thanks to app use and voice search, it saw approximately 15 billion visits in July 2018, the study said. The others were all below 5 billion, according to the report.
Facebook is a declining WEBSITE rising APP (Score:4, Informative)
A large amount of Facebook's traffic these days is mobile, going through their app, not their wesbite
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Of the people that I know that still use Facebook at all, at least 90% of them admit to just using the Messenger App. The ones that still go to the webpage tell me they just go to creep other peoples pictures and never post anything themselves.
Well, FB,YouTube, Apple, MS, LinkedIn, etc etc may not be the giants they are now for very much longer.
The Alex Jones de-platforming brouhaha has frightened a lot of content creators. Many are fleeing to alternate platforms, or at least mirroring their content on them as insurance, because they realize that it only takes a shift in the politically-correct winds and suddenly *they* can be de-platformed and de-monetized as well. Of course, many of their fans have and will follow them to these alternate distri
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You make content that tells people to harass or outright kill a certain religion.
That's illegal. If Jones had done that law enforcement would have arrested him.
Of course, if you're a Democratic Party politician like Maxine Waters, you can tell your constituents to harass political opponents at their work, homes, and anywhere in public and that's fine.
Some animals are more equal than others.
Strat
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Shut the fuck up, faggot
I don't typically reply to AC trolls, but this is just too good to pass up! :D
Now, in thoughtful & considered reply to Mr. AC's oh-so-eloquent and intriguing post;
Let's see...Hmmm...An oh-so-tolerant liberal-progressive Democrat and/or Maxine Waters supporter would never use such a bigoted slur against a protected class. That would make you a two-faced, lying, hypocritical dirt-bag without any ethical principles whatsoever, wouldn't it? Only another member of the same protected class may be allowed to
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I'm fairly liberal, but if you believe even a tenth of the shit on infowars you are a retard and shouldn't be allowed into the grown-up conversations.
I largely agree AJ is a loon, but the best way to combat this sort of kookiness is to let it be heard and seen so it can be taken apart and mocked. Laughter is the most potent weapon against extremist loons. Taking it seriously only gives it weight in the minds of those without strong critical thinking skills.
Trying to silence such loons only feeds into their paranoid fantasies and vindicates their rants to their audiences, as they must be right if TPTB are trying to silence their voices.
Remember the 'Strei
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You talk like this is new. It's not.
Can't wait to see Alex Jones show "Google, Apple, et all" who's boss.
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That would be something to see. But he's going to have to sell a lot of bogus supplements and snake oil to compete with Apple, who is now a trillion dollar corporation.
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The Alex Jones de-platforming brouhaha has frightened a lot of content creators. Many are fleeing to alternate platforms, or at least mirroring their content on them as insurance, because they realize that it only takes a shift in the politically-correct winds and suddenly *they* can be de-platformed and de-monetized as well.
I see this as a good thing. People need to get away from these 'platforms' and start learning how to create their own websites, not controlled by anyone other than themselves.
Google, Apple, et al have a perfect right to kick anyone off for any reason they like. It's theirs, after all. The internet will simply treat their censorship as damage and route around them.
That's all fine and good, but you have to remember, this censorship isn't so easy to 'route around', because so many have no idea how to publish content to the internet without someone like Facebook or YouTube standing there and holding their hand. Also, it's refreshing to see someone write that Google, Facebook, etcetc are perfectly
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The tiny group of particular "content creators" you're talking about should be scared. It was only because of the brief rise of the "alt-right" that they felt they could show their faces in society. There was a time when they had to meet in secret in basements and pass grubby pamphlets around in subway stations. If we're going to exist as a civil society, that time needs to return.
We saw the rise of fascist and white supremac
Re:Facebook is a declining WEBSITE rising APP (Score:4, Interesting)
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I can't speak for other people and I know its not data, but here is how I use the Facebook app.
I have notifications turned on and when certain people post on Facebook I get a notification.
"Oh, I see from the notification that my daughter has posted another picture of her dog." Swipe left. The notification is closed.
At no time does the Facebook feed get visited. At no time do I see any ads.
"Oh I see from the notification that my friend has posted her basketball schedule." Click to view. Post comes up in app
They buried the lede... (Score:5, Insightful)
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When you visit one of their pages, it makes about 10 million GET requests
That's the modern style of web front-end programming. Get used to it: if you can't do it (as a front-end programmer), you probably won't be able to find a job.
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That's the modern style of web front-end programming.
Yeah, that's why my CV includes the line:
Proud to not have touched any Javascript madness in a decade, or its frameworks -- ever.
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Technology never dies, it just stops getting updated.
Yahoo Finance is still the gold standard for financial information. And they have a few other good features that are still popular. Then you have all these devices from companies that Hate Google and Hate Microsoft so their default search engine is Yahoo!. And a bunch of Spyware^H^H^H^H^H^H^H "value add additions" to software installs likes to put in the Yahoo! plugin.
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Yahoo still exists?
Even weirder, numbers six and seven are Myspace and Geocities.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to sign off AOL because my Mom needs to use the phone.
Soon to be overtaken by slashdot (Score:2)
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In the end, Netcraft always wins.
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Sorry, Slashdot golden days are long gone. I am not saying it is dying. But it isn't the force it was during the late 1990's and early 2000's.
Did Slashdot do anything wrong? No not really, just during the 1990's - early 2000's it was one of a smaller player. And the sites that are more general focused, found a way to really optimize their sub-communites to really compete well against a specialty site such as Slashdot.
Also the Slashdot community to avoid any minor changes to the UI, Makes Slashdot seem o
What does views mean? (Score:3)
What does views mean:
Is this every time the page is viewed- or every time a request is made to one of their servers? If I don't go to facebook (I don't have an account), but websites I click on send back data of my movement around the web to feed my shadow profile, is that counting a visit to facebook?
If so, it is no surprise that the top sites are mainly advertising websites. If I go to a forum and someone has embedded a you tube video, but I don't watch it, is that counted as a view?
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So, you're saying they go there?
Ah, I see. The people who are presenting these numbers should retitle it not as the biggest or most well-trafficked websites, but rather, they meant to release a report on which are the biggest websites within certain criteria, and obviously they meant to exclude certain types of ap
Easy Answer. (Score:3)
Youtube has useful applications. Facebook just exploits the dumb.
Noise (Score:4, Informative)
Facebook has become noise. And they did it themselves.
They send e-mails so frequently that it resulted in me ignoring them all. Any page is filled up with ads. Real interesting things rarely get posted.
I check fb maybe once every 2 weeks. I might actually browse it a bit when i'm bored, but last time i did that was months ago.
The only good usage of fb these days is to get in contact with companies. Companies that choose to ignore e-mails and phone calls (or just promise yes and do no) - for whatever reason it works better if the request or issue is made public on fb. It's a modern name-and-shame game.
Apart that, the initial goal of 'get in touch with your friends' seem to be less the case and less fb's mission. Well, i use messenger if someone else wishes so. Personally i prefer e-mail over any messenger.
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Same here, except I also deleted -- undid -- all my facebook posts, likes, and comments I ever made. Did it with a Chrome extension that uses your Activity Log to automatically undo all. I did download a copy of all my fb activity first.
It's a clean slate now, and it feels like freedom. I visit every now and then to check posts from a couple of people who consistently post useful stuff but that's about it. And I still have my contacts.
Btw watching that plugin do its thing at 16x speed was fascinating, reali
Assessing the company's future (Score:1)
My wife wants us to buy stock in Facebook because the stock is relatively cheap right now compared to its past. I told her there is too much of a chance it will turn into the next MySpace and dwindle, leaving stockholders holding the bag. Social media users have proven fickle. But if I turn out wrong down the road, she'll keep reminding me; it's a wife's God-given "job".
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Why is Yahoo #4? (Score:2)
Who uses it anymore and for what?
I admit I do visit Yahoo but just their Webmail since I have an account I've been using for many years.
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The real question is why is Yahoo #4?
Answer: Default Settings
Asia (Score:2)