The “Facebook Nevers” (The Kids Are Alright)

The writer is a full general partner at Google Ventures GV.

From 500ish Words:

The autumn of Facebook has nada to create amongst people quitting the service…

The numbers are inwards as well as the tendency is clear. That is, at that spot is no trend. Despite months of controversy, users don’t appear to survive leaving Facebook. Certainly non inwards whatever meaningful way.

This shouldn’t survive surprising to anyone because this has been the flush of Facebook since nearly the kickoff of the network. It goes similar this: There’s some offend unopen to something. There’s a lot of utter close as well as stories written close people quitting Facebook. Then no i truly quits.

Okay, sure, some people quit. And truly inwards the U.S., the publish of active users has dipped a bit inwards recent quarters. But increment inwards the residuum of the basis is to a greater extent than than making upwardly for those losses. Yes, believe it or not, at that spot are withal people on this planet non yet on Facebook — billions of them, even.¹ 

And as well as hence Facebook grows.

And yet, the tectonic plates are shifting. But they’re shifting under Facebook, equally tectonic plates do. The autumn of Facebook was never going to survive people quitting the service en masse — it’s also interwoven into the cloth of the manner many of us piece of job the spider web these days — it was ever going to survive the people who never truly piece of job the service inwards the firstly place. Kids.

In this regard, the province of affairs is similar to cable. For years as well as years we’ve heard close “cord cutters” — that is, the people who cancel their cable service (I’m i of them!). But the existent story, the i that is as well as volition survive far to a greater extent than impactful, is the “cord nevers” — that is, the people who never got cable inwards the firstly place. Again, the immature people....MORE