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Some users feel that their use of Facebook is compulsive. Over one billion people signed into Facebook on August 24th 2015. One in seven people on earth now use the social network. Facebook is ubiquitous in our lives and we often feel the need to update our status during any social occasion.
On the back of Facebook's rise in second quarterly revenue and the fact 1.49 billion people use Facebook, the survey shows some revealing trends in how we actually use Facebook in our lives.
The survey was carried out by Stop Procrastinating -- a UK based productivity site.
It asked 2000 people who use Facebook regularly and found that a majority are worried that their use of Facebook is compulsive.
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I think one reason that many people use Facebook because many of the other social networks like Twitter, and Google Plus are too limited where they don't have games or fan pages, and don't have a good design which is too basic, or difficult to use.
Plus, most people use Facebook, so people don't switch social networks because many of their friends, and family are not on other social networks.
It is also harder to get traffic to a newly open website, forum, or blog without using Facebook to promote your site because so many people are on Facebook, and it can take a long time like months to be on the front page of Google, Yahoo, and other search engines when people search for topics which are related to your site.
On the back of Facebook's rise in second quarterly revenue and the fact 1.49 billion people use Facebook, the survey shows some revealing trends in how we actually use Facebook in our lives.
The survey was carried out by Stop Procrastinating -- a UK based productivity site.
It asked 2000 people who use Facebook regularly and found that a majority are worried that their use of Facebook is compulsive.
Read More
I think one reason that many people use Facebook because many of the other social networks like Twitter, and Google Plus are too limited where they don't have games or fan pages, and don't have a good design which is too basic, or difficult to use.
Plus, most people use Facebook, so people don't switch social networks because many of their friends, and family are not on other social networks.
It is also harder to get traffic to a newly open website, forum, or blog without using Facebook to promote your site because so many people are on Facebook, and it can take a long time like months to be on the front page of Google, Yahoo, and other search engines when people search for topics which are related to your site.
