Facebook is dead?
Sherzod Khoshimov
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Nobody I know uses Facebook these days. Do you think it's dead as a platform? Is it dying? Does anyone use it for work or pleasure?
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Maxwell Davis@maxwellcdavis
Nope not at all!
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@maxwellcdavis When was the last time you used Facebook and what did you use it for?
@sherzod_khoshimov Well I use it personally everyday. I also regularly click on links and occasionally purchase services through the platform
i use it for promoting my puzzle books website. i get good traffic after my (automated) page posts.
Magnetiq
According to Hootsuite, average number of hours spent on Facebook was still higher than Instragram worldwide, as well as reach rate. Youtube is higher on both these metrics though.
Of course these metrics don't mean anything by themselves because the persona at the platform is changing. Also, groups seem to be still useful for a lot of interests.
@cem_bulut Very interesting point. Do you think a lot of these visits are actually bots? To me, it seems like there is no value in FB anymore. My feed is filled with ads and irrelevant posts.
Magnetiq
@sherzod_khoshimov Actually I don't use it as well, the posts are mostly irrelevant indeed. I live in Turkey and here Facebook is still actively used by the older people. Also, I observe that my European young adult friends are still somewhat active at the platform.
I still see that the groups with specific purposes work and stay relevant. So yeah, it is decreasing indeed, and the demographics are shifting at the platform, but I still see some time until we might consider the platform dead.
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I stopped using it, but I also sopped using instagram too.
I can tell you why I don’t care for it anymore. It has become a battleground for political arguments, radical left and right postings, advertising and in general is NO FUN anymore. I maintain a FB account but rarely visit it anymore.
Most of the people I know use it for Groups and the Marketplace. The "news" feed is nothing but bona-fide epidemiologist, political scientists and some of the greatest orators of the 21st century.
Yes, the number has declined significantly.
Yes, it is dying. Back in 2018, when I travelling in Japan I was talking to high school students and they shocked me when they said only “old people” use Facebook and “all young people avoid it”.
I was bemused but later on I found that my younger relatives were also not using Facebook.
The reason is simple. Privacy issues. They do not want their parents, relatives or school bullies or work colleagues or work bosses to look into their private lives.
Facebook is dying, but it can be saved and I believe it will be.
Facebook has stopped being fun. Facebook used to be a good place to find out what your friends were up to, to see their photos, and to read funny and interesting things. Now, it's full of clickbait, highly partisan and misleading articles, and fewer and fewer real people.