Facebook Alternatives

May I suggest that you add the opengraph and twitter meta tags to your page code[1], that way sharing your site via existing social media channels will result in a much nicer preview 'card' as opposed to just the text 'DELETE FACEBOOK'

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[1] Yes, I know that doing this is somewhat ironic, but it will help your engagement if people know what the site is before they click on it.

Curious to know why do you need Google Analytics on the page.

I thought HN had a feature that automatically stripped sentence-ending exclamation points from submission titles? Similar to the feature it has that turns "1 million" to "1M"

My wife makes all of her income through Facebook products. She's tried other platforms, and none of them were sustainable over Facebook and Instagram, partly because of the difficulty of building a following like the one she has on Instagram, partly because they market isn't using other products. For her, people walking away from Facebook or Instagram means losing her livelihood and giving up her dream job.

Facebook is also the place where we keep in touch with relatives living thousands of miles away from us, who are just technologically literate enough to get on Facebook and post, but not much else. We also met on Facebook, so we owe our entire relationship to the platform.

So for us, Facebook has done a lot of good, we rely on it for the nice life we have together, and it provides something that can't currently be replaced by other platforms.

This list could use substantially better editing. "Google Allo" should not be one of the alternatives for messaging, given that Google has announced its shutdown. eBay should be on the list of Marketplaces. And how are Digg and Tumblr alternatives to Facebook?

Ultimately, I don't think it's helpful to most users to throw a smorgasbord of possible vaguely-related alternatives at them. A more useful resource would be to take up the strategy of Wirecutter, in which the best and second-best options are highlighted, with actual explanations and thoughts. I think if you had to sit down and try to explain how Digg is a good alternative to Facebook to the average user, you'd realize how annoyed those users would be when they find that Digg is no such thing.