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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.
It’s pretty clear. Facebook is now full of crap created by artificial intelligence (and not only).
Sadly Elon Musk remains a threat to us all.
I think teens abandoned Facebook like 10 years ago
Surely longer ago than that? Facebook hasn’t been cool for probably over 15 years
It went downhill when poking and sheep throwing went away.
Has FB been cool since they got rid of signups limited by .edu email addresses?
No, because that’s when the olds took it over.
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).
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
WhatsApp? The instant messenger boomers use on their phones?
Damn, who saw that coming.
In most of Europe WhatsApp is synonymous with text messaging.
Also in South Asia and the Middle East.
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.
telegram is one of the worst, privacy wise.
I know, and it’s terrible that it’s so unavoidable. I managed to avoid Whatsapp, but without Telegram managing university life would be incredibly hard.
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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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.
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+.
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.
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…
well Facebook still owns them and will own them when they all switch to instagram reels like America wants them to do
Isn’t whatsapp for old people? Drag uses Discord instead. It’s not great, but at least it doesn’t hack your phone.
Ok, I feel old. The only reason facebook has any relevance to me is the market place. What’s the best alternative?
