Internet usage

MarkB_MI · Sep 8, 2014

A few recent posts regarded folks going over their 4G data limits. Lots of speculation but as far as I know nobody has reported back with a root cause of their high usage problem.

Here's one possible cause. Of course, FB is not the only site that pushes unwanted videos to users.
Facebook videos blamed for high data usage

MarkB_MI · Sep 8, 2014

Just realized JD Seller already hit on this yesterday over on Tool Talk.

Goose · Sep 8, 2014

I cancelled my Facebook account a couple of years ago. Nothing but a big PITA.

johnlobb · Sep 9, 2014

Yeah, I cancelled my facebook account also. What a waste of time!

Ron in Nebr · Sep 10, 2014

I replied to the post on tool talk, but will post here also....

I had seen that info regarding shutting off the streaming facebook videos, so I tried it about a week ago, and it really did cut down on what it's showing my internet usage is.

Now, I'm not on facebook all the time or anything, maybe an hour or so a day at most, some days not at all, and when I am I rarely watched any of the videos that people had put up. But apparently they were all running all the time when I was on there.

I'm wondering if somehow facebook was running through my phone too, since I can access it that way although I seldom do, because even with my desktop computer disconnected from the internet, my usage used to go up by large amounts between times I actually was on the computer. It doesnt do that anymore since I disabled the facebook video thing.

Also, facebook used to be super-slow, now it's just as fast as any other website.

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