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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.
You had a good year or two after that and then it went to shit.
It went downhill when poking and sheep throwing went away.
Teens stopped using Facebook in 2015.
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
Clearly you young people are fine being on Lemmy with old people
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.
The Internet- where men are men…
Men? Wait, yall aren’t dogs using the internet while the humans are away at work?
Yall are dogs to right?
It’s pretty clear. Facebook is now full of crap created by artificial intelligence (and not only).
Tiktok is as well.
463k people actually liked that photo?
It’s a video
That’s even worse
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…
Look at the graph in the article: it’s the only newsworthy piece. Assuming the numbers are legit, the lines crossed about 6 years ago.
Of course the x axis not having any labeled points there doesn’t fill me with confidence. Perhaps it’s just two points for each and they drew a straight line
Isn’t whatsapp another data mining app for Facebook?
Yes
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.
Ok, I feel old. The only reason facebook has any relevance to me is the market place. What’s the best alternative?
Craigslist, cash converters
It might be that I’m looking at this from a US perspective. Craig’s list has been a bit rough when I’ve tried it. Scammy and shadier people. I hope you’ve had better experiences here than me.
I found cash converters out of the UK. Is that correct? It seemed comparable to a pawn shop at first glance.
I’ve heard it from dankpods a Australian channel
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?
Belgian?
Is Belgium known for using Messenger?
I thought so, but that might be 10 years ago and in Flanders, so… 🤷♂️
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.
“an iPhone which most youth dont have”
i see you dont live in north america
telegram is for pedos and this one guy i know uses it and i question his motives
No, it’s used by just about everyone. Generally the younger the person and the bigger their city, the more likely they are to gravitate towards Telegram rather than Whatsapp.
I know alot of people in my city and its one of the biggest in north america and they have never heard of it.
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.
In most of Europe WhatsApp is synonymous with text messaging.
Also in South Asia and the Middle East.
Yeah, the other instant messenger owned by Facebook
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My family has a signal group. I started it two years ago.
Almost no one pays any attention to it, unless they accidentally open the app once a month, but they’re all still there and can be spoken to.
I put a PSA out a month ago that I’ll no longer respond on Facebook Messenger or SMS after the turn of the year. Tough shit. There was some groaning but, if there’s no other way, either use Signal or invest in a Pigeon coop and get training.
There was some groaning but, if there’s no other way, either use Signal or invest in a Pigeon coop and get training.
Any particular reason you are abandoning SMS? Any particular reason for the strict rule?
RCS ain’t universal. I only have it with some iPhone users and the rare Pixel.
If it’s what’s for dinner, I don’t care. Musk can know I had some hamburger steak.
If it’s the code to your tablet, mom, ask on Signal.
RCS is shit, with SMS at least my phone comes with a messenger and I can download one from F-Droid. With RCS only one proprietary app supports it and it functions weirdly on GrapheneOS. In its current state it’s practically a downgrade at this point and considering how bad SMS is that says a lot.
This is news? The article’s own graph puts this about 6 years ago
Weird, considering facebook does all the shit those other sites do.
People go where their friends are. Their grandparents are on Facebook.
Teens are on Facebook?
How else you gonna cyber bully the transfer student
well Facebook still owns them and will own them when they all switch to instagram reels like America wants them to do
