{"id":3817,"date":"2021-11-26T18:38:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T17:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/26\/im-happy-to-lose-10m-by-quitting-facebook-says-lush-boss\/"},"modified":"2021-11-26T18:38:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T17:38:16","slug":"im-happy-to-lose-10m-by-quitting-facebook-says-lush-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/26\/im-happy-to-lose-10m-by-quitting-facebook-says-lush-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m happy to lose \u00a310m by quitting Facebook,\u2019 says Lush boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Losing 10m followers on sites such as Instagram is a price worth paying for co-founder of ethical beauty empire<\/p>\n<p>Quitting social media is hard to do, even when it doesn\u2019t cost you anything. So when Lush\u2019s chief executive, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2020\/feb\/29\/lush-founder-explains-why-he-is-downhearted-interview\">Mark Constantine<\/a>, shut its thousands of Facebook, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/instagram\">Instagram<\/a>, Snapchat and TikTok accounts on Friday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/black-friday\">biggest shopping day of the year<\/a>, he knew dropping off millions of customers\u2019 screens would damage his business.<\/p>\n<p>Its Facebook and Instagram accounts alone had 10.6 million followers and the void will result in an estimated \u00a310m hit to sales but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2020\/feb\/29\/lush-founder-explains-why-he-is-downhearted-interview\">Constantine<\/a>, one of the business\u2019s co-founders, said it had \u201cno choice\u201d after whistleblowers called attention to the negative impact social media sites such as Instagram are having on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/sep\/14\/facebook-aware-instagram-harmful-effect-teenage-girls-leak-reveals\">teenagers\u2019 mental health<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2021\/nov\/26\/im-happy-to-lose-10m-by-quitting-facebook-says-lush-boss\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a49147ba059f1affb29cb3b6aa51239452bd2678\/0_267_4000_2400\/master\/4000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=c49f6dd56fffcf896477cc9e5afe776b\" title=\"\u2018I\u2019m happy to lose \u00a310m by quitting Facebook,\u2019 says Lush boss\" \/>Losing 10m followers on sites such as Instagram is a price worth paying for co-founder of ethical beauty empire<br \/>\nQuitting social media is hard to do, even when it doesn\u2019t cost you anything. So when Lush\u2019s chief executive, Mark Constantine, shut its thousands of Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok accounts on Friday, the biggest shopping day of the year, he knew dropping off millions of customers\u2019 screens would damage his business.<br \/>\nIts Facebook and Instagram accounts alone had 10.6 million followers and the void will result in an estimated \u00a310m hit to sales but Constantine, one of the business\u2019s co-founders, said it had \u201cno choice\u201d after whistleblowers called attention to the negative impact social media sites such as Instagram are having on teenagers\u2019 mental health. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Losing 10m followers on sites such as Instagram is a price worth paying for co-founder of ethical beauty empire Quitting social media is hard to do, even when it doesn\u2019t cost you anything. So when Lush\u2019s chief executive, Mark Constantine, shut its thousands of Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok accounts on Friday, the biggest shopping &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/26\/im-happy-to-lose-10m-by-quitting-facebook-says-lush-boss\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018I\u2019m happy to lose \u00a310m by quitting Facebook,\u2019 says Lush boss<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}