{"id":159,"date":"2007-12-06T11:31:26","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T15:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/06\/rip-facebook-not-yet-unique-visitors-to-facebookcom-jumped-20-in-november\/"},"modified":"2007-12-06T11:31:26","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T15:31:26","slug":"rip-facebook-not-yet-unique-visitors-to-facebookcom-jumped-20-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/rip-facebook-not-yet-unique-visitors-to-facebookcom-jumped-20-in-november\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Facebook?  Not yet.  Unique Visitors to Facebook.com jumped 20% in November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the space of a month, Facebook has gone from media darling to <a href=\"http:\/\/techland.blogs.fortune.cnn.com\/2007\/12\/04\/rip-facebook\/\">devil<\/a>.   However, all the bad PR didn&#8217;t hold back <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\">Facebook.com<\/a> traffic in November.  Unique visitors jumped 20%:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/home.compete.com.edgesuite.net\/site_media\/upl\/img\/fb_growth_nov07.png\" alt=\"Facebook Growth Nov 2007\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The big question &#8212; Are Facebook users even aware of their worsening privacy situation?  Take a look at the chart below.  Looks like regular Facebook users are mostly unaware of their worsening situation,  or more likely don&#8217;t know what to do about it &#8211; not good.<\/p>\n<p>According to one <a href=\"http:\/\/valleywag.com\/tech\/online-advertising\/facebook-not-so-sure-users-have-even-heard-of-beacon-329889.php\">Facebook poll<\/a>, 67% of all respondents had not even heard of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/business\/?beacon\">Facebook Beacon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/home.compete.com.edgesuite.net\/site_media\/upl\/img\/fb_privacy_nov07_2.png\" alt=\"Facebook Privacy Page\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s generally a good idea to put users first, then investors.  I hope the good people at Facebook HQ wake up quickly.<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.compete.com\/2007\/12\/05\/rip-facebook-unique-visitors-facebook-jumped\/\">Published on the Compete Blog on 5-Dec-2007<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the space of a month, Facebook has gone from media darling to devil. However, all the bad PR didn&#8217;t hold back Facebook.com traffic in November. Unique visitors jumped 20%: The big question &#8212; Are Facebook users even aware of their worsening privacy situation? Take a look at the chart below. Looks like regular Facebook [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-competecom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}