| ▲ | keyraycheck 3 hours ago |
| While number of active users still grows, one have to ask a question, who is left on facebook aside from dopamine junkies and bots. The only reason why I didn’t delete facebook is messenger, where I chat with old folks. |
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| ▲ | CraigRood 5 minutes ago | parent | next [-] |
| The growth is across the family of products (inc Instagram and WhatsApp) not Facebook itself. Facebook itself is a zombie, and I don't believe they have a way to innovate out of it. I'm not going to predict the end of Meta, they have more than enough products, but agreed that it's actually quite difficult to understand who's really left. |
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| ▲ | ericmay an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| “Who is left on Facebook besides dopamine junkies and bots?” “I only use it in this limited circumstance” You are on Facebook. That’s who. It’s like saying you’re not a drinker because you have a glass of wine every once in a while. Sure you’re not an addict (probably) but you still drink. |
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| ▲ | thaumasiotes an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | > It’s like saying you’re not a drinker because you have a glass of wine every once in a while. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/animals-and-us/20110... > Take a 2002 Times/CNN poll on the eating habits of 10,000 Americans. Six percent of the individuals surveyed said they considered themselves vegetarian. But when asked by the pollsters what they had eaten in the last 24 hours, 60% of the self-described "vegetarians" admitted that that had consumed red meat, poultry, or fish the previous day. | |
| ▲ | theodric an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | I'm happy they've been able to build a $1,660,000,000,000 company on the back of me logging in once every two months, scrolling 3 posts, getting disgusted with slop, and closing the tab. Gives me hope that my harebrained ventures may also succeed! | | |
| ▲ | airstrike 42 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | I love the unabbreviated $1,660,000,000,000 lol It reminded me of Waxahatchee's > You let me take my own damn car > To Brooklyn, New York, USA | |
| ▲ | ericmay an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | I don't buy it. You use it more than that - otherwise you'd just delete your account. | | |
| ▲ | morissette 44 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | I’m down to 3 hours a week of social media woot! | | | |
| ▲ | bluGill an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | That is about right for me. I scoll a little longer but as soon as it changes from people I care to follow to slop I'm gone for a couple more months. there is value in following distant friends but it isn't worth hours per day of sorting through slop to find it. When it is only every month or two the non-slop still seems to rise to the top. (But God only knows what non slop they choose not to show me) I wish there was a way to block all 'so-and-so shared' as that is where most of the slop comes from. (Ads at least I can say is how they pay the bills and so I accept a few as non-slop) | |
| ▲ | lanfeust6 26 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I keep mine alive a) to squat on the account for my identity, b) just because I know there are family members that will do posts/messages once in awhile instead of sending me a direct SMS, so I log in every few months | |
| ▲ | carlosjobim 26 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | It's for messaging with old people. It's like having a telephone doesn't mean you're talking all day. It's for people to be able to contact you and vice versa. |
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| ▲ | ben_w 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > who is left on facebook aside from dopamine junkies and bots. Political activists, like a former partner of mine. … who I mute, because I am a British person living in Berlin, I don't need or want "Demexit Memes" and similar groups, which is 90% of what they post … … which in turn means that sometimes when I visit Facebook, my feed is actually empty, because nobody else is posting anything … … which is still an improvement on when the algorithm decides to fill it up with junk, as the algorithm shows me people I don't know doing things I don't care abut interspersed with adverts for stuff I can't use (for all they talk about the "value" of the ads, I get ads both for dick pills and boob surgery, and tax advisors for a country I don't live in who specialise in helping people renounce I nationality I never had in the first place, and sometimes ads I not only can't read but can't even pronounce because they're in cyrillic). |
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| ▲ | naravara 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I take poorly directed targeting advertisements as a performance indicator for how well my data privacy efforts are working. When the ad targeting has you dead to rights is when you need to worry. | | |
| ▲ | ben_w 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | To an extent, sure, but I think also a sign their analytics were never as good as they claimed. For example, so far as I know my name is strongly gendered male, so why the boob surgery ads? | | |
| ▲ | thaumasiotes an hour ago | parent [-] | | > my name is strongly gendered male, so why the boob surgery ads? Probably so you can suggest it to your partner. |
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| ▲ | grvdrm 25 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Around me I see this usage: - Older folks. - People using marketplace - People exchanging inter-personal tips and info: best stroller, contractor, etc. Not saying FB is best for those things but it doesn’t seem dead at all. |
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| ▲ | loloquwowndueo 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Plot twist: all old folks were also on Facebook only to chat with other old folks. Once this fact was spotted, they all just moved to Discord. |
