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Facebook loses users for the first time
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#462I 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.
It's so interesting how different people's Facebook feeds are so different. I do have excessive ads for products, that's fair enough, but I have absolutely nothing political. My only issue with Facebook is that it's poorly designed, actually very dated and cluttered, and none of my friends really use it for personal posts except me. I suspect that each Facebook user exists in a different bubble. Possibly they see som…
People are bad at removing friends and family that contribute to their poor mental health.
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#463Ever try to find out where your old friends live? Like, hey, don't I know someone in Philly? Very basic utilities are missing in Facebook.
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If she uses Instagram she's using Facebook. If she has a Facebook account and goes anywhere on the web while she is logged in, she's giving money to Facebook. It is not so simple now. She doesn't have to "use" Facebook for them to monetize her image, her privacy, her network of friends. A company like Meta will always have new products to take in kids. That's what their new "Reels" is about, trying to compete with Ti…
Facebook is an umbrella term for some kids. TikTok just hit #1 on the app store so this rant feels dated. The teens on Instagram have already grown up
Yeah but that's what I mean. I'm in my 40s. I can vaguely guess the age differences between Instagram and TikTok kids. I'm sure some new great thing (like Facebook's "Reels") will be next, for the under-12 set. My point is IT'S GOING IN FUCKING CIRCLES and it's still run by the same few companies, and it's always the same. Oh it's NEW? for your 12 year old?
NO: Teach your 12-year old that ALL these things are COMPLETE FUCKING BULLSHIT. Not just Facebook. All of them.
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#465As for the stock price, it will come back. FB users may be down but FB now owns Instagram and WhatsApp and they haven’t started to monetize them yet. Not to say they have genuinely been trying new technologies with AR/VR and with their stash of cash can buy any startups in AR/VR space. If anything FB is way underpriced IMO.
Instagram is old cohort. The fresh demographic is tiktok
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> When the metaverse actually launches I think you need to define "metaverse". What is it, besides an ugly, much less functional Second Life? Who's launching it? What is it good for? Why would someone use it over...well, you have to define what it's good for before I can even ask that question.
What is it good for? - Work meetings - Socializing - Dating - Creative endeavors - Improved workspace You'll be able to have work meetings at a virtual office. You can do that now, but the experience will be better. You'll be able to socialize with friends across the world, meet up at virtual replicated areas (like a rooftop bar in NYC..) and meet other people while you're there. You'll be able to go on virtual dates…
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#468Anecdotally, 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…
I don't get it, aren't there also discussions on Instagram? I don't use it much but I thought people could comment on posts there just the same.
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Facebook is for old people. Instagram is for moderately old people. Snapchat is for moderately young people. TikTok is for young people.
Facebook : boomers Instagram : millenials TikTok : gen z snapchat is sort of irrelevant from what I can gather.
What does Gen X use?
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#470I 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.
Why not just stop visiting FB? You might lose access to things you logged in with "Login with Facebook" or lose out on some connections that are only on FB. Doom-scrolling FB is a bad idea, but whenever I log in to FB, I do it with a purpose (usually to text someone on FB) That's a big jump from the time when typing "facebook" in the address bar used to almost be a reflex on opening a new tab.
I deleted my FB account years ago primarily due to its aggressive tracking. The mental health benefits have been a nice bonus.