I salute the 1 million North Americans who ditched Facebook last quarter

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by Sindy Cator on February 1, 2018 at 5:18 am

Facebook made a startling revelation today: for the first time ever, it lost a million users in the US and Canada in Q4 2017, bringing its North American base down to 184 million. That’s not a huge number in the grand scheme of things – and heck, Facebook even saw an increase in daily user audience by 32 million last quarter – but it indicates that people are actively leaving the social network and freeing themselves from its shackles to lead a better life. Why are people quitting Facebook? The rise of fake news, meddling by Russian agencies, and plenty…