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They'll die when they become boring. I know we'd all like them to stop harvesting data from everyone, stop tracking where people are over the internet with thei
by corobo 8y ago
They'll die when they become boring. I know we'd all like them to stop harvesting data from everyone, stop tracking where people are over the internet with their like buttons, etc but honestly Facebook's fall will be becoming boring.
I skew more towards the techie and older (relatively, in my 30s) side of the Facebook world so I'll probably be in the second, third, fourth wave of people to leave forever but I'm starting to notice the younger people in my family have moved on to other apps and services already. If you try to get in touch they'll refer to whatsapp (I know.) for messaging and other apps that fill in the social side of things.
Personally I've started to notice my feed ending if I go past the second "page" - it just says there's no more posts to display.. Out of the 11 years or whatever I've been on Facebook there's.. nothing.. more to display, Facebook? Boring!
Ever since that's started I've noticed I only really use their messenger service to keep in touch with people who have no replacement IM app yet, and even that's starting to shift more towards Discord in my nerdy gaming circles
Unfortunately I have to veer away from the other comments that suggest the mainstream will learn how much data is being harvested. The mainstream doesn't care. We've already had Cambridge Analytica and still I see people cramming data into apps like "OMG" that are blatantly hoovering up personal information. Facebook will die when enough people find it boring enough that a snowball effect starts