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Sean Parker: Threat to Facebook Is ‘Power Users’ Heading to Google+

Posted on October 19, 2011July 2, 2025 by Dissent

Barbara E. Hernandez reports:

Sean Parker said that Facebook’s biggest threat is its heaviest users leaving the social network to Google+ or Twitter because of lack of controls — not privacy, but information.

“I don’t think privacy is an issue. That may be controversial but I don’t think that’s Facebook’s biggest problem. I think Facebook’s biggest problem is the glut of information that Facebook’s power users are overwhelmed with,” Parker said at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.“The strategic threat to Facebook is that power users have gone to Twitter or to Google+.”

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