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Re: Deleting Facebook permanently

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Post by tdfx »

andyjohnson0 wrote: post #99
Traubenfuchs wrote: post #16

I am 28 and none of my peers is using FB anymore. I have some older friends that do their yearly christmas party invite on FB and some people who chat with me on FB messenger. There primarily are ads, spam, people posting commercial content and people congratulating each other for their birthdays. Is facebook this dead for anyone else?

Pretty much everyone under 25 seems to be on Discord

I only use Discord for a very specific group interaction. How is it used more generally?

Re: Deleting Facebook permanently

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Post by vmception »

piyush_soni wrote: post #49
Traubenfuchs wrote: post #16

I am 28 and none of my peers is using FB anymore. I have some older friends that do their yearly christmas party invite on FB and some people who chat with me on FB messenger. There primarily are ads, spam, people posting commercial content and people congratulating each other for their birthdays. Is facebook this dead for anyone else?

But aren't all those youngsters using instagram (which is relatively more 'intellectually demeaning' IMO, and still owned by Facebook)?

I'd say the same shift is happening there

Although the instagram platform is more active than ever for browsing chatting and comments, the individuals aren't posting often and the individual activity has shifted to TikTok.

People used to post images every day on Instagram, that's down to like once a year maybe amongst my friends in their 20s and younger.

With the ephemeral stories being common-ish.

And it seems like most of the viral stories/reels/IGTV are just resyndicated from TikTok.

Meme/activist/comedian/lifestyle brand accounts are like all the static post activity. Which is a lot of activity and growing, but I don't think it is fulfilling the "social network" itch that people think it is, the itch where people have just gotten used to seeing a feed/stream of their friends over the last 15 years. I think that has moved on elsewhere.

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Post by kgog »

meatpuppeting wrote: post #122

One of the biggest (but dumbest) things is I signed up for Spotify with Facebook...and need it to log in. I'm too lazy to like transfer all my playlists and liked songs to a new account.

I don't remember how but I was able to remove FB from Spotify a few years ago. Maybe had to set a password and/or contact support.

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Post by keiferski »

CivBase wrote: post #74
keiferski wrote: post #15

I’ve become throughly convinced that the only way to dethrone Facebook is by creating the Next Big Thing and being crazy (and well-funded) enough to reject any acquisitions on the way up. “Delete your Facebook” social movements are doomed from the start. Social trends seem to come in waves, and people get bored quickly. I wouldn’t be surprised if the world tires of today’s brand of social media in a decade or two. Th…

I haven't used Facebook in almost a decade and I haven't missed it for a second. I sometimes ask friends and family why they use it and the answer is always either "I don't know" or "to keep track of friends and family" (AKA: a glorified contact list). Many of them talk about getting rid of it, but few ever follow through. People love to speculate about "Facebook Killers", but what is there to even kill? Facebook doe…

I had in mind more of a societal shift that makes FB/IG/etc. deeply uncool. Maybe living a super secretive life, never sharing anything, becomes the counterculture of the 2040s.

I just can’t imagine young people (main drivers of social media) are going to be happy with circa 2005 social media forever.

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