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Facebook Is the New Excel – Alex Muir

30 points by shahryc 9y ago

forkLding 9y ago
I think Facebook might be the new Excel now but in a couple of years wont be. Facebook (the main website) has seen a slump in new user registrations in the pre-teen and teen groups and its main group is 25-34 year olds (https://www.statista.com/statistics/187041/us-user-age-distribution-on-facebook/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/187041/us-user-age-distr...) who will get older. I've basically tried marketing on facebook before and realized that it's very hard to reach the teen groups if you're advertising for a product built for youth anymore whereas Facebook in the past could have not only reached the 25-34 years olds but also grabbed the 13 to 24 year old groups. I definitely think the dominance of Facebook.com (main website) will start to subside in 5 years or so until we no longer interact with the website actively but rather just passively scroll through it now and then.
wolrah 9y ago
The bit about apartment searching made me shudder. Dedicated apartment search web sites already suck enough at providing relevant information in an easily searchable form, the idea of searching through unorganized text is just insane. Unfortunately I know the author has a point. In the car community forums are losing traffic like crazy while Facebook groups have constant traffic. The Facebook groups are absolutely horrible to use but it's where the people are. With no ability to categorize or "sticky" threads the discussions are a disaster, but for some reason a lot of people are fine with that.
- King-Aaron 9y ago
  Completely agree with the car forums - and all enthusiast forums in general. You get the same inane questions being asked daily - if not hourly - because people can't easily find information that had been asked previously. Not to mention that facebook allows more "casual" enthusiasts to partake in conversations, than what I'd consider proper "enthusiasts". I feel that it dilutes the quality of a technical question's responses when you have one person replying with solid advice, and ten others who either shitpost, or offer plainly incorrect advise.
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tinokid 9y ago
This was 2016. Two years hence the feeling is different.

30 points by shahryc 9y ago

I think Facebook might be the new Excel now but in a couple of years wont be. Facebook (the main website) has seen a slump in new user registrations in the pre-teen and teen groups and its main group is 25-34 year olds (https://www.statista.com/statistics/187041/us-user-age-distribution-on-facebook/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/187041/us-user-age-distr...) who will get older. I've basically tried marketing on facebook before and realized that it's very hard to reach the teen groups if you're advertising for a product built for youth anymore whereas Facebook in the past could have not only reached the 25-34 years olds but also grabbed the 13 to 24 year old groups. I definitely think the dominance of Facebook.com (main website) will start to subside in 5 years or so until we no longer interact with the website actively but rather just passively scroll through it now and then.

wolrah 9y ago

The bit about apartment searching made me shudder. Dedicated apartment search web sites already suck enough at providing relevant information in an easily searchable form, the idea of searching through unorganized text is just insane. Unfortunately I know the author has a point. In the car community forums are losing traffic like crazy while Facebook groups have constant traffic. The Facebook groups are absolutely horrible to use but it's where the people are. With no ability to categorize or "sticky" threads the discussions are a disaster, but for some reason a lot of people are fine with that.

King-Aaron 9y ago
Completely agree with the car forums - and all enthusiast forums in general. You get the same inane questions being asked daily - if not hourly - because people can't easily find information that had been asked previously. Not to mention that facebook allows more "casual" enthusiasts to partake in conversations, than what I'd consider proper "enthusiasts". I feel that it dilutes the quality of a technical question's responses when you have one person replying with solid advice, and ten others who either shitpost, or offer plainly incorrect advise.

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tinokid 9y ago

This was 2016. Two years hence the feeling is different.