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Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by smt88 »

davesque wrote: post #39

It's a complete mystery to me how Facebook operates. Like, they need money to keep the lights on, right? Where is the money coming from if no humans are using the platform?

An astonishing number of people use Facebook daily, and Instagram is also a huge revenue generator. The company itself is thriving despite terrible products.

Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by HoldOnAMinute »

zadikian wrote: post #21
mgiampapa wrote: post #4

Social media is mostly about what you make of it and how you interact to find value. This is the same in Twitter, TikTok, FB, Instagram, even LinkedIn. If you don't interact with the product, you get lowest denominator crap.

Was curious what my abandoned FB shows if I log in now. Mostly posts from groups I joined ages ago that are surprisingly still active, some random local news articles, and ads for restaurants.

I used to run the Facebook page for a church-affiliated children's summer program associated with a minority group.

I accidentally switched to that account the other day.

The feed was the most right-wing, Fox News crap you could imagine!

Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by alex1138 »

paxys wrote: post #32

> I logged on for the first time in ~8 years That's the problem. Your friends and liked pages have all moved on and aren't posting anymore. The algorithm has no idea what to show you. FWIW I don't use Facebook actively but do log in once in a while, mainly for marketplace and neighborhood groups. And a ton of my friends are still active there (might be giving away my age). The first post on my feed not from a friend…

This could be, but the complaint about Facebook has always been people are posting but the feed won't show them posts from friends

Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by michelb »

ossa-ma wrote: post #25

Evidently there is such little real human content and engagement on these platforms yet how does the big number keep going up? Genuine question. Do we need a way to audit usage stats in addition to financial numbers?

Engagement is great if you target a specific group. Don't need human content. It's ridiculously easy to start a Facebook page in a niche targeting a specific demographic, connect a site to it, unleash AI generated content, post it on FB and run ads. With enough traction, Facebook will pay you for making more content, while you extract money from your page followers. You're separating easy-to-influence boomers and conspiracy theorists from their money. It's disgusting, but it is ridiculously easy to make heaps of money with whatever content on Facebook.

Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by jjtheblunt »

davesque wrote: post #39

It's a complete mystery to me how Facebook operates. Like, they need money to keep the lights on, right? Where is the money coming from if no humans are using the platform?

isn't the money coming from advertisers placing ads, even if no one is really paying the placed ads attention?

Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by zadikian »

wincy wrote: post #34
da02 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do your social groups use nowadays?

Similar experience for me and it’s just been replaced with… nothing. My gaming buddies talk on Discord but I just don’t really hear from my aunts and uncles and cousins anymore. It’d be a hassle to even figure out how to contact them. Only 13 people showed up to my high school reunion last year from a graduating class of ~400.

Same. Idk how college communication work now; we had class groups and planned everything over FB events/pages back then.

For friends, I started a few text group chats to stay in touch. It's really annoying because someone has Android and RCS is broken on someone's end. Some also use FB Messenger, but nobody 2 years younger or older than me is on that.

Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by gniv »

I login for the groups. Some private groups have a ton of useful info that's well organized, plus helpful folks that are eager to answer questions.

Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by wincy »

_dain_ wrote: post #18
0x1ch wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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The implication is that they got divorced.

My wife still uses Facebook sometimes but I have it blocked on my phone and laptop, I’d have to get on my desktop to even check it.

Re: Facebook is cooked

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Post by nimbius »

Man who remembers when a big Mac was a wholesome and tasty meal option now shocked to find that, under capitalism, the wrapper is actually more nutritious than the meal itself.
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