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Ironic seeing this on IMO one of the worst and falling-out-of-fashion 'social networking' sites around. It would be like Digg hosting a page about the sure dec

by axaxs 8y ago

Ironic seeing this on IMO one of the worst and falling-out-of-fashion 'social networking' sites around. It would be like Digg hosting a page about the sure decline of Reddit.

type0 8y ago
Facebook is not going anywhere anytime soon, now that when even every grandma is using it. Kids don't use facebook now but they'll eventually will when the only point of contact for so many is to message on fb.
- sfilargi 8y ago
  Facebook is already kind of gone. What used to be a place to hang out, share photos of last night's party, gossip, brag, etc.. is now a mind numbing scrolling experience. It's becoming increasingly difficult to tell it apart from reddit.
  - arvinsim 8y ago
    If anything, FB Messenger will probably will still remain since a lot of people outside the US are still using it.
    - kalleboo 8y ago
      Hasn't WhatsApp largely taken over that role? (which is why Facebook acquired them)
      - ritz_labringue 8y ago
        Definetely not in France. FB Messenger is the primary way of messaging people here
- setr 8y ago
  They’ll have an account, but probably not actively use it for posting content. Assuming kids are the primary driver of content on fb, then with their absence should come a drop in value from checking into fb daily (this is occurring to me, today. I’m not sure if its due to more aggressive advertising or loss of usage, but my feed is like 50% ads atm, which I’m pretty sure wasn’t true five years ago). If theres a lack of people posting content on fb, then you’ll naturally feel no incentive to post (the social media feedback loop, in reverse). Eventually, the feed becomes useless, and all thats left is the messenger app driving value to fb And of course, in social media, the adults follow the kids. If the kids are running around on a different app, then those who wish to stay in contact will slowly move to it as well. And those who wish to stay in contact with both and so on. Social media is all about feedback loops, and the young are the primary fuel for it. FB will struggle to survive in its current form if it doesn’t have the next generation. And social media doesn’t have the kind of lock-in to claim a current population gaurantees a future population. You can have yik-yak and fb simultaneously. If half your audience is on yik-yak and the other on fb (eg friends on yak, family still on fb), you might cross-post. But dangerously for fb, you’re not going to cross-post to fb if yik-yak is your primary, and your audience has yik-yak as their primary too.

by axaxs 8y ago

Ironic seeing this on IMO one of the worst and falling-out-of-fashion 'social networking' sites around. It would be like Digg hosting a page about the sure decline of Reddit.

type0 8y ago

Facebook is not going anywhere anytime soon, now that when even every grandma is using it. Kids don't use facebook now but they'll eventually will when the only point of contact for so many is to message on fb.

sfilargi 8y ago
Facebook is already kind of gone. What used to be a place to hang out, share photos of last night's party, gossip, brag, etc.. is now a mind numbing scrolling experience. It's becoming increasingly difficult to tell it apart from reddit.
- arvinsim 8y ago
  If anything, FB Messenger will probably will still remain since a lot of people outside the US are still using it.
  - kalleboo 8y ago
    Hasn't WhatsApp largely taken over that role? (which is why Facebook acquired them)
    - ritz_labringue 8y ago
      Definetely not in France. FB Messenger is the primary way of messaging people here
setr 8y ago
They’ll have an account, but probably not actively use it for posting content. Assuming kids are the primary driver of content on fb, then with their absence should come a drop in value from checking into fb daily (this is occurring to me, today. I’m not sure if its due to more aggressive advertising or loss of usage, but my feed is like 50% ads atm, which I’m pretty sure wasn’t true five years ago). If theres a lack of people posting content on fb, then you’ll naturally feel no incentive to post (the social media feedback loop, in reverse). Eventually, the feed becomes useless, and all thats left is the messenger app driving value to fb And of course, in social media, the adults follow the kids. If the kids are running around on a different app, then those who wish to stay in contact will slowly move to it as well. And those who wish to stay in contact with both and so on. Social media is all about feedback loops, and the young are the primary fuel for it. FB will struggle to survive in its current form if it doesn’t have the next generation. And social media doesn’t have the kind of lock-in to claim a current population gaurantees a future population. You can have yik-yak and fb simultaneously. If half your audience is on yik-yak and the other on fb (eg friends on yak, family still on fb), you might cross-post. But dangerously for fb, you’re not going to cross-post to fb if yik-yak is your primary, and your audience has yik-yak as their primary too.