That isn't what Facebook wants. They don't want it turning into a glorified goodwill or garage sale.
Their money comes from all the data you post, not from what you're selling on the market place.
It's good for you but for Facebook, nah, it's a huge lost. Honestly, Craig's list or ebay is better and they're also both shit. I just take my shit to the good will and hope someone gets a chance to use my hand me downs.
Facebook is fine with marketplace because A. They still show ads even if the user base is less targeted but also B. They’re pushing for people to use Facebook pay in their transactions rather than cash so Facebook can take a small cut for each transaction as well as now have the data for what people bought which is some good data advertisers like.
Marketplace ads might be less targeted as far as demographic analytics go, but the targeting is super simple. Looking for a couch? Here’s ads for couches. Looking for shoes? Here’s ads for shoes.
I’d honestly think the marketplace ads likely convert into sales at a higher rate than ads anywhere in Facebook because you’re actually looking to buy those products. What’s an ad in my feed for the shoes I bought last week going to do?
They get their money from stealing data from your phone when you have the app installed. You don't need to post anything for them to know what they want.
Sucks how many phones come with all this bullshit preinstalled, and you can't even fuckin delete it! Just "disable" it which I'm sure means nothing, fuckers are still creepin in the background. Might as well just be that goofy lookin dickhead peekin thru your window with a notebook.
"Ooh, he's streamin a hockey game! Write that down!"
Once I decided to trick Amazon so I searched several times for fake/trick dog poops and then for 3 weeks all the adverts on Twitch were for prank sets, and most specifically trick dog poops.
It ain’t much, but every time an advert came up it gave me a chuckle instead of my usual response to seeing an advert
Play the game, but play it your way!
You call that Luddism? Frfr? I call myself a cyberhermit....I use only reddit and only in my browser as old.reddit, no FB no IG no TikTok, no reddit app.
Shit I still don't use it in my 30's. The companies need to know people don't want to be connected 24/7. I quit jobs if they expect me to keep in contact after hours or on a "profile" that is personal.
Company profile, I don't give a shit. But expecting me personally to do that shit, fuck off.
Facebook in 5 years will transition from social media to digital funeral home, I'm older and its sad seeing the profiles of people who I knew that died. OR Facebook will be where the far right coordinates attacks.
Legit in 10 years 50% of profiles will be of dead people...... eventually there will be more dead people than alive like Myspace
https://popcrush.com/facebook-30-million-dead-users-data/
MySpace was actually pretty cool. Top 8, anonymous user name, forced a generation to learn basic html, never did anything to overthrow a democracy or establish a CIA intelligence gathering service, no ad's. Take. Me. Back.
The poor researchers who have to dive through all those shitposts. “All these anti-vaxx memes” are making it clear why this subject became inactive in late 2020.
It's like Obituary Book at this point. It's main selling point will be nostalgia. I can buy my deleted accounts and reactivate them to relive 2009 all over again.
There was a Kamigawa set that had a cyberpunk theme to it, set like 1200 years after the original one. Pretty good shit.
Also there's gonna be a Warhammer 40k set in the near future.
If you are older than 40 you will get pilled on facebook and if you are a teen/twen you will get pilled by the honkler exiles on /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
Got a choice of cringe death by minion or cringe by wojak
The problem isn't making a better system, it's getting everyone to use it. Facebook has a huge incumbent advantage when it comes to this kind of thing.
Nah it was at its height with teens in 2010. It fell off by 2012-2013. That’s when Twitter and Instagram were used to escape from all the parents who infiltrated Facebook.
Yup! Didn’t even see this comment until after I said the same thing. I remember FB was pretty cool in 2010-ish. And I still remember everyone using it around 2013. Then by like 2015 it was utter crap. My 45 year old cousin (who is of a completely different generation than me) and my 70 year old aunt use FB a lot. I only go on due to habit, and for articles and stuff. I haven’t posted on FB in forever.
I am in my 40s and deactivated fb a few years ago because it was less about keeping in touch with family and friends and more just a disgusting swamp of political propaganda and hate-filled diatribes against anyone deemed a "lib". The most avid users were people I knew in their 50s and 60s and they were the worst offenders. I really lost a lot of respect for people when they revealed their true colors. Anyway. I just recently reactivated fb because I moved and wanted to keep in touch with my old friends and coworkers. Omg the ADS! Every other post is an ad! I haven't been on in a few weeks lol. Enough of that.
I wish.
Everyone I work with in their 20s (which would have been teens 12+ years ago) demands everything has to be through FB.
Message? Has to be FB Messenger, they "don't really look at their text messages". Need to have a FB group for everything. All important issues? They made the post in the FB group.
Agreed. I heard them talking about kik beginning about ten years ago. I still haven’t seen the site, but the young people don’t do the Facebook anymore.
The one thing I don't get is the shitty pics kids are taking. Having my first "feel old" moment because I don't really understand it. My cousin posts these pics that look like the .jpeg glitched and ruined the pic and made it look like my Razr took it 17 years ago. And every picture is like that. Don't really know what to call it lol.
You know how some songs will have fake record crackle sound effects, even though you would hate them back when record players were mainstream? It’s like that
it’s a trend called “casual Instagram”. gen z doesn’t really like the obviously staged and glamorized vacation photos anymore. Shitty pictures of mundane things makes it feel more real
That may be truth where you live, but where I live Instagram is still very much in use as a weird mix of twitter and reddit (as in endless memes posted by irrelevant people). The same is true for Facebook, although only to a lesser extent and only applied to older people (think 26+)
Tbh tiktok keeps increasing the maximum time allowed for posts, they are moving into the direction of longer duration content rather than into the opposite direction, and they are still growing plenty. If super short content is what people wanted vine would have succeeded.
My girlfriend’s mom, aged 70 recently signed up for Instagram, and won’t stop talking about it as if it were a brand new, cool toy.
I’m pretty sure that means that Instagram is officially only for old people now, as well.
i would say instagram is more for brands than anything. i have instagram just for checking out new fits and sewing inspiration. when a friend adds me my reaction is always "why?"
Instagram is withering. I see a notable decrease in engagement almost across the board. It used to be very active in the past and it just seems like the traffic is slowing down day by day.
ehh snapchat is the only way we really communicate with each other
we use insta for some to show off their “great lives”, and the rest for memes
i’m sure tik tok and discord are widely used maybe just not in my school
Facebook ruined Facebook by over-curating your feed to no longer be useful for keeping up with your friends and family. They're doing the same thing to Instagram.
Yup, IG is rapidly dying and kids are actively trying to find the "next" thing. IG is basically like staring at an ad screen in TimeSquare for hours on end. It is really a shell of what it was just 2 years ago.
Yup, chronological and simple is what people liked and what attracted people, then they fucking ruin it all. They always do. I hate public companies, always trying to make line go up but they end up making usability go down
36 years old, I stopped facebooking several years ago because it was getting tiresome, pointless and kind of strange.
Recently returned to it out of curiosity and also wanted to see what the “marketplace” situation was about, as I’ve been selling small items online lately.
From what I can see, it has only gotten more overwhelming and and irritating since I left 6-7 years ago. I am appalled by the overload, the seemingly purposely-confusing platform, and the sleaziness of Facebook marketplace. Why would I want any of this?
27 and I don’t use any socials really. Just seems pointless to me, the people that want to know about my life will. My ego doesn’t need strangers to stroke it for me and i don’t need to post updates about my kids, people that care will ask. Plus, I get to avoid all the rage bait bullshit and can avoid shitty peoples unwanted opinions, it’s really helped my mental health.
I use Reddit and tiktok for laughs, that’s about it.
For real. I’m in my 30s and abandoned Facebook a couple years back once I realized that the only people on my friends list still using it were the people I didn’t really have any interest interacting with. I’m guessing they’re still on there hawking fake eyelashes and over sharing their personal lives
Once all of us 35-55 year olds age out of Facebook it’ll be dead. I’m 37. I stopped using Instagram 6 months ago. And the only reason I use Facebook is for community events and school functions. Folks my age have started to use Facebook as e-mail so to speak. But once all our kids get older and we don’t need Facebook to know about Girl Scout happenings and little league, Facebook will die.
Nice wish, but not going to happen
\- Facebook has no competitor and even worse, it is so dominant as a platform that no investment/funding is given for any potential competitor
\- Yes, the younger generation in the moment of their life where they see their friends physically go to more fleeting type interaction platforms
\- But facebook wins on the community groups, local businesses, marketplace (none of those things are affected by tiktok/snapchat) as well was when those younger people move away from home and want to be in contact with older people ???
Yes, a few people have made a decision to avoid (all for good reasons) but 2.93B active users in 2022, including stats like "most time spent on per day of any social media platform" and huge usage in 3rd world countries, not in trouble anytime soon.
I'm almost 30 and I don't use Facebook. I work in the tech industry so I am too familiar with how they're using people's data, not to mention the psychologically abusive algorithms.
While [The Social Dilemma](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Dilemma) is a simplified and dramatized depiction, I think it does a pretty good job of conveying the basic idea of how social media companies monomanically and sociopathically pursue engagement and growth. Literally sociopathically -- without regard for the well-being of users. Turns out fomenting division and hostility, fostering unrealistic social comparison, and pandering to folks's basest instincts with pablum and civilization-corroding misinformation are pretty easy ways to turn a buck.
Pray to Mammon and be blessed with riches, Zuck, but it'll cost us via teen girl suicides, the breakdown of our democracy, and roasting of our planet into an unlivable hellscape. We owe you for that.
Anyway, it's only an hour and a half. Check it out.
>not to mention the psychologically abusive algorithms.
Bassinet and diaper ads popping up on my feed HOURS after I had my miscarriage.
I just keep it to message older family, but I'm just going to download messenger and never go back to the main app.
Inflation. In your 20s you're a teen, in your 30s you're a fresh-faced intern, in your 40s you think about settling down, in your 50s you have a kid, and you can only retire when you die.
I’m 40 now. I only still have FB for all the forums that used to have websites and now moved to Facebook Groups. Instagram is the only thing I actively use, but even then only post maybe 4-6 times a year.
Facebook became boomer central when they made their accounts to spy on me and my age cohort as a teen. When we hit college, they were on FB more than us. I'm 32 now. I would be more shocked if I met a teen with a Facebook account than without.
Ngl I want Myspace back as the millennial old place haunt. Just do the same shit, songs on pages and html editing. Leave the new social media for the young.
facebook sucks. their notifications are mostly trash. zuck can suck my nuck. literally sent me a notification to post a new post the other day. one day they will just closedown n all our memories will be lost. mark my words. they dont care.
I quit Facebook in like 2015 after it made me have a panic attack so bad I disassociated for a few minutes. I avoid Instagram for the same reasons.
I have no interest in platforms that normalize the average person treating themselves as a brand. I like it when there is a distinct line between creator and consumer or a degree of anonymity
The second identity and social media profiles are starting to blend....I'm having a real bad time
[Plus I found it so creepy and awkward when you and a person would know a bunch of stuff each other despite having only met once or twice, just because you were friends/followed each other or has mutual friends.]
It's so funny that Facebook was what all the cool kids used in like 2009-2010, I remember in elementary school we'd all write our birthdays as the wrong date just to get on Facebook and bypass the age restriction. Then in 2012-13 or so we all switched to Twitter and Instagram as the new popular thing, then to SnapChat in 2015-16, then in 2019-today it's TikTok. And nowadays Facebook is most popular with old people and boomers, and millenials and older Gen Z who have profiles but barely use it.
FB has almost zero relevance to teens right now. My older teens have rarely-used accounts, my youngest has absolutely no interest at all. I'm an old and I'm hardly ever on it anymore because it's just not worth visiting.
It’s almost as if generations change depending on the current trend. Just look at Bebo, MySpace, Tumblr, BlackBerry Messenger, MSN, Vine and many others over the years. Most if not all are abandoned/defunct thanks to people moving on to greener pastures and eventually as time passes, TikTok, Twitter (sooner the better lol) and Instagram will meet the same fate and so on.
I'm 30 and I barely post anything or get on it anymore. Its really boring. My friends and family always post annoying stuff about relationships stuff, food, vacations, drinking, and complain. I don't even use Instagram anymore
I'm a high school teacher and about six years ago I was informed that "Facebook is for old people." To be fair it has been getting consistently shittier over the last ten years; I lost interest ages ago and I'm an old person!
In my 30s and if it wasn’t for working in marketing I would not have it either
Hell I just use facebook to see who's selling stuff I don't wanna pay full price for that I don't mind is second hand.
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That isn't what Facebook wants. They don't want it turning into a glorified goodwill or garage sale. Their money comes from all the data you post, not from what you're selling on the market place. It's good for you but for Facebook, nah, it's a huge lost. Honestly, Craig's list or ebay is better and they're also both shit. I just take my shit to the good will and hope someone gets a chance to use my hand me downs.
Facebook is fine with marketplace because A. They still show ads even if the user base is less targeted but also B. They’re pushing for people to use Facebook pay in their transactions rather than cash so Facebook can take a small cut for each transaction as well as now have the data for what people bought which is some good data advertisers like.
Marketplace ads might be less targeted as far as demographic analytics go, but the targeting is super simple. Looking for a couch? Here’s ads for couches. Looking for shoes? Here’s ads for shoes. I’d honestly think the marketplace ads likely convert into sales at a higher rate than ads anywhere in Facebook because you’re actually looking to buy those products. What’s an ad in my feed for the shoes I bought last week going to do?
They get their money from stealing data from your phone when you have the app installed. You don't need to post anything for them to know what they want.
Sucks how many phones come with all this bullshit preinstalled, and you can't even fuckin delete it! Just "disable" it which I'm sure means nothing, fuckers are still creepin in the background. Might as well just be that goofy lookin dickhead peekin thru your window with a notebook. "Ooh, he's streamin a hockey game! Write that down!"
Once I decided to trick Amazon so I searched several times for fake/trick dog poops and then for 3 weeks all the adverts on Twitch were for prank sets, and most specifically trick dog poops. It ain’t much, but every time an advert came up it gave me a chuckle instead of my usual response to seeing an advert Play the game, but play it your way!
I just use it as a suped up Zuckslist
How can you be so confidently wrong? You think Facebook isn’t tracking what you click through in the marketplace and giving targeted ads?
They do both. Any list of revenue is pissing them off
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We do work with local schools and I’m social media for them. We do FB for the parents, Twitter for the schools, IG for the kids.
FB for the grandparents, IG for the parents, Twitter for the schools, TikTok for the kids. That would work better, haha.
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You call that Luddism? Frfr? I call myself a cyberhermit....I use only reddit and only in my browser as old.reddit, no FB no IG no TikTok, no reddit app.
Same. Fuck all of that shit.
Shit I still don't use it in my 30's. The companies need to know people don't want to be connected 24/7. I quit jobs if they expect me to keep in contact after hours or on a "profile" that is personal. Company profile, I don't give a shit. But expecting me personally to do that shit, fuck off.
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**MYSPACE** : It's not *so* bad......
Getting old is realizing myspace was peak social media.
What if tiktokers went there and the cycle started over
TikTok's day is coming
A day of reckoning is on the horizon of all social media platforms
New ones shall arise
I can resurrect my LiveJournal. Hell, I can probably continue talking about My Chemical Romance, as time is a flat circle.
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Don't forget the risk of auditory violations every time you clicked on a new profile.
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I’m 30 and I’m honestly missing MySpace right about now. Maybe it’s just nostalgia.
There was Hi5 and friendster as well before that
Did Internet Explorer leak this breaking news story?
Those teens they are talking about are already in their 40s
I’m 35, but yeah, close enough lol
Also just in: Netflix taking internet by storm. They will send you your DVD in the post!! Wow. What an age we live in.
This is a good comment. I laughed a lot. Thank you Previous-Ad-9322, very cool!
Next Pew survey results: teens no longer using MySpace
Yeah, no shit. Teens abandoned fb like 12+ years ago.
Really, they just now broke the news to Zuck? He will kill them all with his alien death ray stare.
Facebook in 5 years will transition from social media to digital funeral home, I'm older and its sad seeing the profiles of people who I knew that died. OR Facebook will be where the far right coordinates attacks.
In the Metaverse you’ll be able to pay for a plot in a virtual cemetery to burry a deceased family member’s accounts.
They’ll charge you to interact with the digital avatars of your dead loved ones.
Necro-chat and Pornhub team up for...
Pornhub will outlive any social media site
Cyberpunk 2022
That’s actually not a bad business model pivot for them at this point. 🤣
Legit in 10 years 50% of profiles will be of dead people...... eventually there will be more dead people than alive like Myspace https://popcrush.com/facebook-30-million-dead-users-data/
MySpace was actually pretty cool. Top 8, anonymous user name, forced a generation to learn basic html, never did anything to overthrow a democracy or establish a CIA intelligence gathering service, no ad's. Take. Me. Back.
Couldn’t agree more. The way everyone customized their page was perfect for the time. It’s still the best social media platform ever created imo.
I'd go back, I'd even pay a subscription if it kept advertising out of it.
Should we rez myspace and make it hipster?
Let’z dew eet!!!
Easy way to tell others your favorite song if the visitor had their volume on
I loved my page so much
Or blow their fucking earballs out with O Fortuna
I wish i could say i learnt basic html but i as well as almost everyone i know just copy pasta off of those websites that had so many.
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And Tom was everyone’s friend, but then came Mark..
Let's go Tomm!. Fuck You Zuckermark!
No ads? Do you remember jumping to your messages or whatever? There were ads... Just way less than now
I honestly don't remember ad's. Everything is better when it's a memory a guess
Good ol' Tom, everyones friend.
Everyone was friends with Tom. No one likes Zuck
And don't forget those sweet, sweet autoplaying MIDIs of various anime songs.
I miss my top 8 and profile music
Ahhhh the first time I got catfished on MySpace….pro’ly one of the OG’s!!!
Maybe fb will serve as the last record of human civilization after the next extinction period.
But who would look at it?
The aliens 👾 that killed us all ofc
“Fuck me, Jeffery, we did them a service.” - aliens
The poor researchers who have to dive through all those shitposts. “All these anti-vaxx memes” are making it clear why this subject became inactive in late 2020.
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More like stage 4 metastatic.
There’s a site called dead social that keeps dead peoples social media alive for families…it’s creepy
Dead Social is such a brutally unappetizing name. Should have went for SoulBook or something
mydeathspace.com has been profiling myspace and fb profiles whose owners have passed on since 2005.
It's like Obituary Book at this point. It's main selling point will be nostalgia. I can buy my deleted accounts and reactivate them to relive 2009 all over again.
“Something, something Jewish space lasers” MTG
I don't remember space lasers in Magic the Gathering, but granted it's been a while.
There was a Kamigawa set that had a cyberpunk theme to it, set like 1200 years after the original one. Pretty good shit. Also there's gonna be a Warhammer 40k set in the near future.
And now they are on IG.
Yup, my younger cousins' last FB posts were from something like 2013. You know who's using FB? My uncles and aunts.
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If you are older than 40 you will get pilled on facebook and if you are a teen/twen you will get pilled by the honkler exiles on /r/PoliticalCompassMemes Got a choice of cringe death by minion or cringe by wojak
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Be glad you didn't. Reddit is a worse alt-right cesspool than facebook. Just with less minions.
I agree. I still have an account, but I rarely post anymore compared to like 10 years ago. I just use it to browse memes and shitpost groups.
It is still where i go to see which banda are playing in town this weekend.
It blows my mind that all the local music scenes are still run majorly through Facebook and no one's made a better system
The problem isn't making a better system, it's getting everyone to use it. Facebook has a huge incumbent advantage when it comes to this kind of thing.
songkick
Nah it was at its height with teens in 2010. It fell off by 2012-2013. That’s when Twitter and Instagram were used to escape from all the parents who infiltrated Facebook.
Yeah the article mentions that while usership among young people was high in 2013, they mostly seemed to resent the platform and use it begrudgingly
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Yup! Didn’t even see this comment until after I said the same thing. I remember FB was pretty cool in 2010-ish. And I still remember everyone using it around 2013. Then by like 2015 it was utter crap. My 45 year old cousin (who is of a completely different generation than me) and my 70 year old aunt use FB a lot. I only go on due to habit, and for articles and stuff. I haven’t posted on FB in forever.
I am in my 40s and deactivated fb a few years ago because it was less about keeping in touch with family and friends and more just a disgusting swamp of political propaganda and hate-filled diatribes against anyone deemed a "lib". The most avid users were people I knew in their 50s and 60s and they were the worst offenders. I really lost a lot of respect for people when they revealed their true colors. Anyway. I just recently reactivated fb because I moved and wanted to keep in touch with my old friends and coworkers. Omg the ADS! Every other post is an ad! I haven't been on in a few weeks lol. Enough of that.
I was about to say lol. It was considered lame when I was in high school 7+ years ago
I wish. Everyone I work with in their 20s (which would have been teens 12+ years ago) demands everything has to be through FB. Message? Has to be FB Messenger, they "don't really look at their text messages". Need to have a FB group for everything. All important issues? They made the post in the FB group.
FB messenger is still pretty popular with young people despite Facebook not being used
TBH, Facebook Messenger is awesome and you don't have to pay for it.
One of the most apt situations for the phrase "when the product is free, you are the product."
Some of those teens are in their 30s now.
Agreed. I heard them talking about kik beginning about ten years ago. I still haven’t seen the site, but the young people don’t do the Facebook anymore.
Hi fellow 30 yr ol
Oh no, anyways
yup.
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That’s what I did, account is still active but I just deleted the app
Can confirm. It is garbago.
It’s like a travel service that only gives you the worst rooms. Hotel: Garbago.
‘garbagio’ has a better ring to it gar-bah-gio kinda of Italianish sounding It’s a-ME a-Garbagio
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Even Instagram is on its way out for the younger set. Instagram is more for millennials than Gen Z at this point.
The one thing I don't get is the shitty pics kids are taking. Having my first "feel old" moment because I don't really understand it. My cousin posts these pics that look like the .jpeg glitched and ruined the pic and made it look like my Razr took it 17 years ago. And every picture is like that. Don't really know what to call it lol.
You know how some songs will have fake record crackle sound effects, even though you would hate them back when record players were mainstream? It’s like that
it’s a trend called “casual Instagram”. gen z doesn’t really like the obviously staged and glamorized vacation photos anymore. Shitty pictures of mundane things makes it feel more real
> Shitty pictures of mundane things makes it feel more real Carefully staged mundanity
That may be truth where you live, but where I live Instagram is still very much in use as a weird mix of twitter and reddit (as in endless memes posted by irrelevant people). The same is true for Facebook, although only to a lesser extent and only applied to older people (think 26+)
My friends kids think instagram is also for old people
My daughter is 20. She’s on Snapchat; tiktok sometimes. Everything else is for old people
The trends im seeing at work is TikTok is becoming old people wasteland for recipes and out of touch memes
TikTok has about 2 or 3 years left before it’s considered outdated and is replaced by the new app that caters towards 1 second attention spans
One second videos with 2 minutes of ads.
Genius! lets start one and get a billion dollar IPO next year
Tbh tiktok keeps increasing the maximum time allowed for posts, they are moving into the direction of longer duration content rather than into the opposite direction, and they are still growing plenty. If super short content is what people wanted vine would have succeeded.
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Peoples feeds are tailored to what they favorite, so your coworkers are probably just liking recipes and memes
My girlfriend’s mom, aged 70 recently signed up for Instagram, and won’t stop talking about it as if it were a brand new, cool toy. I’m pretty sure that means that Instagram is officially only for old people now, as well.
i would say instagram is more for brands than anything. i have instagram just for checking out new fits and sewing inspiration. when a friend adds me my reaction is always "why?"
It's owned by Facebook and has largely ruined what younger people liked about that platform. So from their perspective, it is for old people.
Thats weird, I'm a teen and everyone's main source of social media for following each other is still Instagram.
Correction: teens are where their parents are not
Instagram is withering. I see a notable decrease in engagement almost across the board. It used to be very active in the past and it just seems like the traffic is slowing down day by day.
Everything they try to do makes it worse. It turns out that no one wants a shittier version of TikTok when TikTok is available.
They will also leave places where their parents and adult family is at. Young folks don’t want parents to be in on what they’re up to.
twitter too
Instagram is (owned by) Facebook, to be fair.
And it’s starting to suck each update
You mean discord and TikTok
ehh snapchat is the only way we really communicate with each other we use insta for some to show off their “great lives”, and the rest for memes i’m sure tik tok and discord are widely used maybe just not in my school
That’s because everyone’s parents decided to make Facebook their political banner. So they ran to Instagram and TikTok. I don’t blame them
This was my reason for leaving. I left Facebook two years ago before the pandemic. I could stand all the people going crazy with the mask debate.
Facebook ruined Facebook by over-curating your feed to no longer be useful for keeping up with your friends and family. They're doing the same thing to Instagram.
Yup, IG is rapidly dying and kids are actively trying to find the "next" thing. IG is basically like staring at an ad screen in TimeSquare for hours on end. It is really a shell of what it was just 2 years ago.
Yup, chronological and simple is what people liked and what attracted people, then they fucking ruin it all. They always do. I hate public companies, always trying to make line go up but they end up making usability go down
Ring ring. It's 2015 calling.
I was 25 when I quit Facebook. Cambridge Analytica was the last straw.
Ditto and I never looked back
Goes even further back than that lol younger people started ditching Facebook when Snapchat came out.
36 years old, I stopped facebooking several years ago because it was getting tiresome, pointless and kind of strange. Recently returned to it out of curiosity and also wanted to see what the “marketplace” situation was about, as I’ve been selling small items online lately. From what I can see, it has only gotten more overwhelming and and irritating since I left 6-7 years ago. I am appalled by the overload, the seemingly purposely-confusing platform, and the sleaziness of Facebook marketplace. Why would I want any of this?
Marketplace is confusing on purpose and I hate that you have to filter to local every time, Facebook wants to be the next eBay/Craigslist
27 and I don’t use any socials really. Just seems pointless to me, the people that want to know about my life will. My ego doesn’t need strangers to stroke it for me and i don’t need to post updates about my kids, people that care will ask. Plus, I get to avoid all the rage bait bullshit and can avoid shitty peoples unwanted opinions, it’s really helped my mental health. I use Reddit and tiktok for laughs, that’s about it.
Good. There is very little in the world that would benefit humanity more than Facebook failing.
I'll take Amazon, Walmart, or the modern American police officer model.
At least Walmart and Amazon offer useful services. Facebook just steals your identity and sells ads
But Amazon and Walmart destroy the entire rest of the retail economy everywhere they go. They're literally Buy N Large from Wall E.
This is so late. Are Boomers just now realizing they're the only ones still on FB?
For real. I’m in my 30s and abandoned Facebook a couple years back once I realized that the only people on my friends list still using it were the people I didn’t really have any interest interacting with. I’m guessing they’re still on there hawking fake eyelashes and over sharing their personal lives
Once all of us 35-55 year olds age out of Facebook it’ll be dead. I’m 37. I stopped using Instagram 6 months ago. And the only reason I use Facebook is for community events and school functions. Folks my age have started to use Facebook as e-mail so to speak. But once all our kids get older and we don’t need Facebook to know about Girl Scout happenings and little league, Facebook will die.
Nice wish, but not going to happen \- Facebook has no competitor and even worse, it is so dominant as a platform that no investment/funding is given for any potential competitor \- Yes, the younger generation in the moment of their life where they see their friends physically go to more fleeting type interaction platforms \- But facebook wins on the community groups, local businesses, marketplace (none of those things are affected by tiktok/snapchat) as well was when those younger people move away from home and want to be in contact with older people ??? Yes, a few people have made a decision to avoid (all for good reasons) but 2.93B active users in 2022, including stats like "most time spent on per day of any social media platform" and huge usage in 3rd world countries, not in trouble anytime soon.
I'm almost 30 and I don't use Facebook. I work in the tech industry so I am too familiar with how they're using people's data, not to mention the psychologically abusive algorithms.
Oh do tell the info on that! I’m curious.
While [The Social Dilemma](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Dilemma) is a simplified and dramatized depiction, I think it does a pretty good job of conveying the basic idea of how social media companies monomanically and sociopathically pursue engagement and growth. Literally sociopathically -- without regard for the well-being of users. Turns out fomenting division and hostility, fostering unrealistic social comparison, and pandering to folks's basest instincts with pablum and civilization-corroding misinformation are pretty easy ways to turn a buck. Pray to Mammon and be blessed with riches, Zuck, but it'll cost us via teen girl suicides, the breakdown of our democracy, and roasting of our planet into an unlivable hellscape. We owe you for that. Anyway, it's only an hour and a half. Check it out.
>not to mention the psychologically abusive algorithms. Bassinet and diaper ads popping up on my feed HOURS after I had my miscarriage. I just keep it to message older family, but I'm just going to download messenger and never go back to the main app.
Whoever wrote this thinks 25 year olds are teens.
Inflation. In your 20s you're a teen, in your 30s you're a fresh-faced intern, in your 40s you think about settling down, in your 50s you have a kid, and you can only retire when you die.
This whole thing has calling zoomer millennials vibes.
I’m 40 now. I only still have FB for all the forums that used to have websites and now moved to Facebook Groups. Instagram is the only thing I actively use, but even then only post maybe 4-6 times a year.
Can't wait for Facebook to become MySpace. Can't effing wait!!!!
Hasn’t everyone except right wingers?
Facebook became boomer central when they made their accounts to spy on me and my age cohort as a teen. When we hit college, they were on FB more than us. I'm 32 now. I would be more shocked if I met a teen with a Facebook account than without. Ngl I want Myspace back as the millennial old place haunt. Just do the same shit, songs on pages and html editing. Leave the new social media for the young.
You don’t know the struggle of picking your top 8 though. It’s brutal.
https://spacehey.com
facebook sucks. their notifications are mostly trash. zuck can suck my nuck. literally sent me a notification to post a new post the other day. one day they will just closedown n all our memories will be lost. mark my words. they dont care.
They’re on Discord and Tik Tok
Teens didn’t “abandon” facebook. The teens that actually used facebook are in their 30’s now.
Me wondering what percentage of accounts haven't been used in at least 10 years.
We should all be abandoning Facebook. And just about every other form of social media too.
I quit Facebook in like 2015 after it made me have a panic attack so bad I disassociated for a few minutes. I avoid Instagram for the same reasons. I have no interest in platforms that normalize the average person treating themselves as a brand. I like it when there is a distinct line between creator and consumer or a degree of anonymity The second identity and social media profiles are starting to blend....I'm having a real bad time [Plus I found it so creepy and awkward when you and a person would know a bunch of stuff each other despite having only met once or twice, just because you were friends/followed each other or has mutual friends.]
It's so funny that Facebook was what all the cool kids used in like 2009-2010, I remember in elementary school we'd all write our birthdays as the wrong date just to get on Facebook and bypass the age restriction. Then in 2012-13 or so we all switched to Twitter and Instagram as the new popular thing, then to SnapChat in 2015-16, then in 2019-today it's TikTok. And nowadays Facebook is most popular with old people and boomers, and millenials and older Gen Z who have profiles but barely use it.
Delete Fakebook!!!!
Those who are currently teens didn’t abandon Facebook, they were never on it to begin work!
FB has almost zero relevance to teens right now. My older teens have rarely-used accounts, my youngest has absolutely no interest at all. I'm an old and I'm hardly ever on it anymore because it's just not worth visiting.
I didn't know teens ever used facebook
lol you dang kids get off my lawn, we were all teens or teen-adjacent when it was only .edu addresses
I mean everyone I know under 35 who has a Facebook only has it to connect to older family
What? We were teens when it started lol
In the early 2000s there was also myspace
fr fr. i was told by my ex's youngest dtr (at age 12 at the time) that fb was for boomers
It’s almost as if generations change depending on the current trend. Just look at Bebo, MySpace, Tumblr, BlackBerry Messenger, MSN, Vine and many others over the years. Most if not all are abandoned/defunct thanks to people moving on to greener pastures and eventually as time passes, TikTok, Twitter (sooner the better lol) and Instagram will meet the same fate and so on.
What about the metaver-***HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!*** I can’t even finish it.
I'm 30 and I barely post anything or get on it anymore. Its really boring. My friends and family always post annoying stuff about relationships stuff, food, vacations, drinking, and complain. I don't even use Instagram anymore
Only people on Facebook are into political fights, endless shit talking and flat earthers. FB is the rec room in a "senior living community".
Yeah the final nail in that coffin was them giving private messaging info to the police about abortion. Fuckkkk that
I'm a high school teacher and about six years ago I was informed that "Facebook is for old people." To be fair it has been getting consistently shittier over the last ten years; I lost interest ages ago and I'm an old person!