it's why politicians want to ban it
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I think teens abandoned Facebook like 10 years ago
Surely longer ago than that? Facebook hasn't been cool for probably over 15 years
Has FB been cool since they got rid of signups limited by .edu email addresses?
That was basically the end. When it was only friends and the feed sorted by "new,", it was super fun. When my aunts started joining it became much less fun.
the feed sorted by “new,”
Yeah, and it went from "let's just add some stuff" to outright "we will force feed you this slop and you will like it" from there. It felt like you were a goose being prepped for Christmas' foie gras.
That's when it was cool to teens who didn't have .edu emails addresses (but not long after).
No, because that's when the olds took it over.
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It went downhill when poking and sheep throwing went away.
Poking is still there. I'm trying to bring it back.
I never stopped
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Because Whatsapp is totally not owned by FB.
It’s not about why owns it. It’s about where young people can be without getting bothered by their parents and other old people.
I'm 41.....you telling me the kids today don't think of me as the greatest person who ever existed??? Pssshhh that's malarkey! I won't hear of it! EVERYONE thinks I'm the greatest person who ever existed! My lexicon includes words like "malarkey" and "lexicon"! Kids think that's cool right???
I'm 39 so I am slightly more rizz than you. I maintain my levels of brat by regularly updating my skibidi vocab.
Yo, your lexicon is making my malarkey happy
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That's about phone number requirement for signup. Not about platforms.
OK. Life is life.
I've just had a traumatic memory of one young person, a girl (with possibly undiagnosed ASPD), from 13 years ago.
Feel nausea and want to throw up every time thinking about that kind of places, dynamics, emotions.
Where there any teens on Twitter? Last I was there it was full of angry middle-age men.
before musk came it was pretty full, most of them have moved to threads
Ah, the curse of algorithmic social network. It’s full of angry middle-aged men if you follow those / interact with them. There are / were big communities formed around various pop stars on Twitter and those are quite different demographics.
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It's pretty clear. Facebook is now full of crap created by artificial intelligence (and not only).
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That is a weird way of describing it. Teens aren't "abandoning" FB & X; they never signed up to begin with. And why would that? They are platforms built for and filled with millennials+.
A decade ago is when teens stopped using Facebook, unless they're counting Instagram in those metrics?
then they would have to count WhatsApp too...
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Ok, I feel old. The only reason facebook has any relevance to me is the market place. What’s the best alternative?
That's just it, Facebook is kinda the default option, and almost everyone has an account there. It's why so many clubs arrange everything through a Facebook page.
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Okay? But what does Whatsapp has anything to do with the other? DM?
I don't consider WhatsApp social media.
WhatsApp has channels (public feeds centered around topics, a bit like microblogging), communities (groups about a subject, much like Facebook Groups), and updates (temporal video/photo statuses to share with your friends). You might only use it for DM, but it has much bigger aspirations.
WhatsApp? The instant messenger boomers use on their phones?
Damn, who saw that coming.
american, right? It's very popular in other places.
Most countries stopped using SMS ages ago. WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram are ubiquitous.
I WISH signal was ubiquitous. Half of my friends are still using Facebook Messenger so I still have to resort to using SMS for them
SMS for everybody not on a self-hostable encrypted messenger. Why fool oneself into thinking a US managed messenger is private?
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Spotted the iMessage user who routinly cries about dot colour
Weird that this is your association as using it would require an iPhone which most youth don't have. My thought was Telegram, which is omnipresent at least around me, with Whatsapp often being kept just for the parents or older relatives.
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Weird, considering facebook does all the shit those other sites do.
People go where their friends are. Their grandparents are on Facebook.
well Facebook still owns them and will own them when they all switch to instagram reels like America wants them to do
Sadly Elon Musk remains a threat to us all.
Isn't whatsapp for old people? Drag uses Discord instead. It's not great, but at least it doesn't hack your phone.
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