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Seriously, how are there still so many people on meta? What percentage are bots is the real question 🤷♂️
Every one one of my friends and family use it daily.
And a huuuuuge sell is marketplace. Literally no one touches Craigslist anymore. So if you wanna buy used from people, you literally need marketplace.
I used craigslist just last week, but yea marketplace is a big part of facebooks market reliance
Mad respect to them for not enshittifying.
...yet.
Craigslist, or Facebook marketplace?
"Literally no one?" My partner and I just picked up a couch from a couple thru Craiglist, all of us aged around 30 years old. We both love to read the Missed Connections posts on there. I agree that facebook's marketplace has a good hold on ubiquity at the moment, but nobody "literally" needs it.
I was looking for a turntable recently and checked Craigslist religiously for several weeks trying to find a deal. All I saw was the same few overpriced antique stores using posts as advertisements, refreshing over and over to stay on top. What real posts I could find were priced at the same point as the antique stores, probably thinking that was the going rate.
I was barely aware of Facebook Marketplace, but a friend recommended I check there too, and it had a bunch of actual fair deals. While Craigslist rarely had a vintage turntable for less than $300, I was immediately able to find 2 for less than $50 each on Facebook. I felt unclean while re-installing the Facebook app after nearly a decade, but I can't deny that it's better, at least for what I was looking for.
Nice!
Haha yeah, I mean its used, but veerryyy very little now. People are still scared of being murdered in there.
literally is one of those words which has really lost it's meaning. yes I hate it.
Regardless, how badly you want to use fb marketplace is highly regional and situational dependent.
My partner and I have twins who are now almost 3 years old. I would estimate that the stuff we have bought and then later sold on fb marketplace for little or no difference in value would have cost about $6k or $7k per child if we had bought it new. Average full time wage here is about $1k per week, for reference.
There just isn't another platform which has any significant userbase for toddlers gear here. There is something else you can use for cars or tools, but not toddlers stuff.
Its true that without facebook marketplace we just wouldn't have bought a lot of the stuff that we did
Yeah i used it unnessecarily. I agree. So many good deals. And ive met some new friends from it.
Meeting someone via Missed Connections is the stuff of my Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan dreams.
I sold my motorcycle 3 years ago and had at least 10 offers on it.
I'll check CL every so often
IME craigslist is better for auto but everything else seems to be on marketplace
That and free random stuff.
I just wanted to point out that it's not dead dead (well a lot of traffic died after they took personals off lol )
Which is also fucked, since the likelihood you have a legit transaction is low. The scammers are most active on marketplace.
Eh, not true. Ive bought and sold hundreds of things and had 0 scam. People around here are pretty honest
Oh maybe it’s location based.
i cannot believe people literally don’t understand or remember how the world worked before the 4 companies took over their brains
Amazing isnt it. The corporations have won. Us old fogies are deemed crazy and will be gone soon and the younguns will have no idea what they took from us.
Its up to parents to teach their children to rage and be angered at what they've lost. And to get it back.
seems old man yells at cloud but it’s true
these companies have like 100 year plans - they know even if everyone hates what they do today, those people will die off and the new generation won’t know any better, since they have been seeped in it.
Lol you do not need fb marketplace. Thrift stores, yard sales and flea markets are great for furniture. For everything else there's eBay. I've never bought anything on fb marketplace and I almost always buy used stuff.
Stop making flimsy excuses. Stop giving this evil company your money.
Not here. Marketplace is insanely useful and saves me a lot of money.
Thrift shops?? Garage sales?? They're shit now and WAY overcharge. Pawn shops are horrible. They want $300 for a VCR.
However , I do not use Walmart or amazon, and I do not buy new cars. So I'm helping there at least.
I can't leave anyway since all my friends are stuck in it and will never move. (Tech illiterate and scared of the dark web, as they call it)
Craigslist is stil the standard for listing rentals in Vancouver for some reason.
There are parts of the world where the Facebook app basically is the Internet. Places where most people dont own a laptop, but everyone has a cell phone and phone service comes bundled with discounted Facebook data. Their hold goes way beyond social networking to, local businesses and even government services dont have webpages, they have Facebook pages only. Every game people play runs through Facebook, and all their saves are locked up with them. Every video people post or watch runs through Facebook and its hyper localized algorithm. It would take generations to displace them.
Not sure of other countries in the same region (Latin America) but at least in mine, is so fucking annoying that the main source of communication between clients and stores is Facebook. Do you want to order something? Then contact us (specifically from Facebook) or come to the store!
a lot of you consider facebook + whatsapp + instagram usage covers a large chunk of thr western sphere
Seriously, how are there still so many people on meta?
Social networks become part of people life, they use them to talk to relatives, friends and to build communities. Once social networks started to become popular, facebook with the help of governments, rich people and other corporations managed to become the biggest platform, they got so big that they turned into a phone book where everyone was in. Meta used the billions we feed them, our data and their popularity to build/buy other social networks and tools people are now hooked up. In italy whatsapp replaced mails and it's what most people are using to talk with each other.
Family keeps me from deleting my account but I don't use it for anything other than messenger and unfortunately marketplace because that's replaced everything else.
WhatsApp is extremely popular, even among people who don't use any other Meta services.
It still boggles my mind most of the world decided to adopt that app of all apps to be the defacto texting app.
As one of those adopters 15 years ago, it was a no-brainer. I could either message my wife "free" or send SMSs at 20c each.
Is this still the case?
SMS is now 11 cents, better, but not free. There are a bazillion more apps that do free messaging but everybody, even companies expect to have WhatsApp
People in developing countries have Facebook as their default internet destination, sometimes it is even the internet encapsulated, as it literally combines almost all the online services that are normally separate; they go there for their daily entertainment, news, and socializing fix.
The Philippines are one. Those stupid sad fuckers can’t get off it to save their lives. And Facebook subsidizes it for them to be on it all day.
Facebook in Philippines is literally free to use even for those without mobile data. However, people there don't realise they are the product. Or worse, they don't realise they are guinea pigs for social engineering by techno-industrial complex.
Boomers are set in their ways
I use it for messaging. Boomers are on it heavily and the Portal TV - a truly wondrous device despite the caveat - needs a FB account also.
But reading the scroll? Not so much.
Edit: aw crap. I'm on whatsapp a lot too -- I forgot they're a meta deal. It's honestly hard to care enough to keep track, some days!
Same reason why so many are on the chinese version of it: They don't need more of the internet.
Thats like asking "How are there still so many boomers alive?"
Give it time.