Lenten Sacrifices Don't Make A Dent In Facebook Traffic

In late February stories about Christians giving up Christian group boasts 840,000 members. Many of those who gave up Facebook posted Giving Up Facebook for Lent group has about 240 members, interestingly enough with its most recent post on March 15, about three weeks into Lent.

$US Weekly Market Share of Visits' /> <br /> No finger-pointing or stone-throwing here, though. Lots of people don’t make it to the end, which is no cardinal sin, so to speak, and those who don’t make it tend to add that fact to their appreciation of the difficulty of the sacrifice inspiring the tradition in the first place—giving up things you love is really, really hard. <br /> <br /> But it’s likely not lack of endurance, but the sheer number of people who made no such commitment dwarfing out the few, the proud, the faithful. Since the end of January, Facebook’s market share of US visits has skyrocketed. <br /> <br /> So we’ll just assume most of them made it, and on Sunday we’ll see them back again, frantically responding to all the requests and photos they missed while they were out. The skeptic in me wonders if they still got updates in email and if that counts.<br /></p> </div> <script> (function() { function initCopyableSections() { document.querySelectorAll('.article-content .copyable-section').forEach(function(section) { if (section.querySelector('.copyable-section__btn')) return; var btn = document.createElement('button'); btn.type = 'button'; btn.className = 'copyable-section__btn'; btn.setAttribute('aria-label', 'Copy to clipboard'); var label = section.getAttribute('data-copy-label'); btn.textContent = label ? 'Copy ' + label : 'Copy'; section.appendChild(btn); btn.addEventListener('click', function() { var contentEl = section.querySelector('.copyable-section__content'); var text; if (contentEl) { text = contentEl.textContent.trim(); } else { var clone = section.cloneNode(true); var btnClone = clone.querySelector('.copyable-section__btn'); if (btnClone) btnClone.parentNode.removeChild(btnClone); text = clone.textContent.trim(); } if (!text) return; navigator.clipboard.writeText(text).then(function() { var t = btn.textContent; btn.textContent = 'Copied!'; btn.classList.add('copied'); setTimeout(function() { btn.textContent = t; btn.classList.remove('copied'); }, 2000); }); }); }); } if (document.readyState === 'loading') { document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', initCopyableSections); } else { initCopyableSections(); } })(); </script>   <div class=$

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