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Buying instagram was a brilliant move. It's a far more enjoyable social network to use. Lately I've gotten into a scene that's basically a parallel universe whe
by mullingitover 10y ago
Buying instagram was a brilliant move. It's a far more enjoyable social network to use. Lately I've gotten into a scene that's basically a parallel universe where facebook doesn't exist. Everyone uses instagram. It's far more entertaining and creative, and far less saturated with anger and activism. I've dialed back my facebook activity heavily in the past year, to the point that I've deleted the facebook app. I have messenger and the facebook events app, but the losing the news feed has been no loss at all.
I can see a future, not even very far away, where facebook is essentially the AOL of our generation and having an account there is a punchline.
- m3ta 10y agoThis may be one of the biggest reasons Instagram was purchased by Facebook. It's a hedge against Facebook's potential to go the way of AOL and MySpace.
- jackfrodo 10y agoThat future is already here. I asked my 13 year old sister and her friend if they were on Facebook, and they both laughed and did an old person imitation of me! I couldn't believe it.
- aianus 10y agoDo they still communicate via text at all anymore, or does every message have to be accompanied by a photo? If so, what platform do they use for that?
- imgabe 10y agoSnapchat
- aianus 10y agoCan you send text on snapchat without an image? I'm asking what do they use for one on one text communication.
- ownagefool 10y agoYes, though I'd assumed whatsapp was the answer for messaging.
- udkl 10y agoSomewhere I read : Younglings these days use twitter and snapchat for daily life events and reserve Facebook for bigger in-frequent events (birthday, get-together, trip etc)
- lowpro 10y agoThat's about how it goes, at least in high school and college age people: Snapchat all the time, twitter when bored, insta scrolling all the time, post every few days or week, and Facebook for the big things. Personally I get on Facebook twice per year, once on my birthday and once before summer to tell the world where I'm working. That's about how it goes, then every once in awhile a new app will come up like house party recently, and everyone will jump on for a month or so then go back.
- tracker1 10y agoWhich I find funny as hell that people don't just use sms, at least in the US most cell plans are now unlimited text (not including pictures). I never quite got the point of whatsapp or other text message alternates in the US... especially when they (many) don't have a website that can be used from the desktop.
- aianus 10y agoI've been using Facebook messenger since high school in 2007 when unlimited SMS was a luxury only enjoyed by a couple of rich kids. I don't see any point in switching to SMS now, especially when so many of my friends live in different countries.
- garblegarble 10y agoThree reasons that spring to mind for me are encryption, rich content at no additional cost (videos+images) and the ability to know whether a message was actually sent/received
- basch 10y agofacebook was for college age people. facebook is still for adults. when kids grow up, and go to college, if they dont have facebook, they get it. just because kids are allowed to join, doesnt mean its designed to appeal to them. its purpose is to connect people. friends who see each other every day dont need many of facebooks features. this "kids dont think facebook is cool" narrative has been going on for years, and it just doesnt matter. they come around eventually. the network effect is too strong.
- ascorbic 10y agoThis is just the same as the stories that periodically comes out saying kids don't use email. Sure, but every one of them will if they go to uni or get a white collar job. Right now they're just socialising, and who uses email for that? The emails I get are almost all transactional or work related, and I'm 37. I doubt I'm unusual in that.
- libeclipse 10y agoThis isn't correct. A few years ago every kid had Facebook. If you didn't have it, you were a weirdo. Recently however, everyone's drifted away from it like they drifted away from MSN. The few kids that are still there just use it to tag each other in memes. Instagram is the new Facebook. Source: Me - personal experience.
- basch 10y agobut so what. kids got it for a while until their parents got it. now kids are chasing something else. but once they grow up and become adults, they will get facebook.
- thesauri 10y agoAt my university, Facebook is primarily used for events and groups. The groups aren't used for discussion though, mostly just for informing about the events. Banter is usually done in Telegram chat groups. Party photos make great stickers..
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- ja27 10y agoRight, my youngest turned 13 and didn't even create a FB account until we told him too. He'd already been busy on Instagram and Twitter, but not so much on Snapchat yet.
- S4M 10y agoHonest question: why would you tell your son to create an FB account?
- gist 10y agoOne guess is to be able to have some intel and insight into what is going on in the kids life as well as their friends and who they interact with. Not sure if this is the parent comments reason but I can see it having some value for that reason.
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- freyir 10y agoI deleted my Facebook account. I'm happier.
- stevenj 10y agoWhat's the Facebook events app?
- jarjoura 10y agohttps://itunes.apple.com/us/app/events-from-facebook-find/id1153443320?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/events-from-facebook-find/id...
- paublyrne 10y agoI was wondering the same thing. Messaging and events are all I want from Facebook. This app is iOS only at present by the looks of things.
- amelius 10y agoYou can also unfollow all your friends on Facebook, and then use just messaging and events. This basically amounts to the same thing.
- stevenj 10y agoThanks, I had no idea this existed.
- forgetsusername 10y agoWhy don't you think that the same will eventually happen to Instagram that happened to Facebook and AOL?
- nailer 10y agoThere's a lot of spam on instagram. Try posting anything related to fitness and you'll get " awesome" and "️" from every beauty, gymwear and supplement brand. Edit: HN is eating emojis
- peteretep 10y agoI love the semianonymity; I have a (very) expensive hobby and I can unashamedly share photos with other people with the same hobby without worrying about the social blowback from doing it on Facebook
- pwython 10y agoNow I'm curious. Yacht racing? Collecting Faberge eggs? Cocaine?