Facebook had already started to tweak the news feed to promote more interaction and the changes are now coming into effect. Recently, Facebook said that the overall usage of its platform dropped by “roughly 50 million hours every day” compared to the previous quarter.

People Are Spending Less Time on Facebook After News Feed Changes

Early this year we have seen Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg took up a personal resolution to fix its social networking platform. Just a few days ago we have seen, Mark Zuckerberg said that Facebook would now focus on promoting local news in its latest update.

Facebook had already started to tweak the news feed to promote more interaction and the changes are now coming into effect. Recently, Facebook said that the overall usage of its platform dropped by “roughly 50 million hours every day” compared to the previous quarter.

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However, this quarter also saw the first-ever decline in the growth of Daily active users on Facebook in Canada and US. Mark Zuckerberg believes that the drop was necessary for Facebook’s future success.

The daily active users in the US and Canada has dropped from 185 million to 184 million. Well, it’s worth to note that Facebook has posted a 14% quarter-over-quarter growth in daily and monthly active users worldwide. However, the reports from Recode claims that the usage grew globally, but the growth was slower since 2015.

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