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Facebook loses users for the first time
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#322I think they lost users much much earlier. It's just that most users they lost went from "I use Facebook" to "I don't want to use Facebook, but kinds still have to" (because friends, family etc.). All people below 40y I know which have Facebook fall more or less in the second category...
I fall into a 3rd category: I used to log into FB once a month or so to check in. For some reason, they decided I was a fake account (despite working for them for 4.5 years) and asked for my ID. The resolution on my 10-year-old MBP was too low for FB's contractors so they rejected my ID 3 times and I seem to now be locked out of my account indefinitely. Definitely in the top 10 best thing to ever happen to me.
Given how rarely you were using it before, I'm surprised you rate the impact so highly - how come?
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#324I feel like all of the Metaverse stuff we've heard over the last few months was in preparation to try and distract/deflect from this.
EXACTLY!
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#325Anecdotally, I know several people who shifted from Facebook, with its toxic space for arguments, to Instagram in the last few years.
I stopped using Facebook a few years ago, when it was mainly for a few topic focused groups. I wish there were a way to download all the group posts and comments (or at least the ones I participated in) in some kind of an open text based format I can store locally and refer to. If you know of any such tools, please share.
There’s so much information locked into the platform, and with no way for search engines to index and no easy way to even lookup information within it (Facebook search has always sucked), it’s a huge loss.
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#326If only the VR division was its own thing (while still having the resources). Their VR stuff is pretty damn awesome.
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#327I deleted my FB a while ago and it truely helped my online mental health. The fb feed was full of false news and hate speech. I reported as much as I could but nothing happening. There wasn't any regulations and I felt more toxic on the contents. I am not gonna lie there was a positive side like knowing the news instantly but It's not worth it apparently.
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#328My 16yo daughter says FB is for old people and nobody in her age group is using it.
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#329Facebook suspended the official washington state republican group multiple times for posts, they finally moved over to mewe. Facebook is a shadow of what it use to be after running off everyone.
> Facebook is a shadow of what it use to be after running off everyone. Yes, everyone ran off, leaving only 1.9B subscribers.
Only a few people closed their accounts, many leave them as husks. The account is there but dead.
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#330Peak coffee consumption (per capita/US): 1946 Peak cigarette consumption (per capita/US): 1963 Peak oil production (global): unknown, maybe 2020-2030 Peak Facebook: ?? That's an incomplete peer group, but I find it interesting that at some point, society does start to unplug from addictive substances. The tapering off is quite slow, though. Unclear whether heavy users cut back, or new generations just don't develop t…
We reached peak coffee long ago!? Sad news indeed
It is suprising, seeing as it would have been more of a luxury item in the past.