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Facebook has the same problem the Republican party has. Their users/supporters are all dying and less and less people are signing up. However they are still a f

Facebook has the same problem the Republican party has. Their users/supporters are all dying and less and less people are signing up. However they are still a force to reckon with and generate a lot of cash.

throwaway122378 7y ago
How’s life in your Bay Area bubble?
- adjkant 7y ago
  It's not hard to look at the age breakdown for each of the political parties and see this checks out. https://www.people-press.org/2018/03/20/1-trends-in-party-affiliation-among-demographic-groups/ https://www.people-press.org/2018/03/20/1-trends-in-party-af...
  - Mountain_Skies 7y ago
    Haven't Republicans traditionally trended older? If there are enough voters who change parties as they age, does it matter that one party tends older while the other trends younger?
    - adjkant 7y ago
      I hear that claim a lot but if you look at the link I posted under the "A wide – and growing – generational divide in partisanship" heading, it doesn't appear to actually be the case. If that were true you'd likely see a much bigger pull to republicans as Gen X aged during the studied period (94-17). Also doesn't explain the sharp millennial pull to democrats at all.
  - tomp 7y ago
    This assumes that people's political affiliations don't change as they age. Given by the amount of youth that support communism I sincerely hope you're wrong.
    - adjkant 7y ago
      As I said in other comments, you can look at those graphs and see they are relatively static across all generations. That said, what isn't pictured is the shift of the ideologies of the parties themselves, which both have gotten more progressive long term, though not really in the years studied in this case. > Given by the amount of youth that support communism I sincerely hope you're wrong. As someone in that demographic it sounds like you're listening to way too many conservative sources trying to scare you. I'm very heavily liberal and even I know maybe 1 in 1000 that actually want any form of communism. Most people my age in the US (Millenial / Gen Z border) on the left are very much for the hybrid socialism / capitalism of Bernie and much of Europe.
- notyourwork 7y ago
  Why from a throwaway?
- deleted 7y ago
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tenpies 7y ago
Is it a problem? Older people are more likely to vote and spend more time on Facebook. Older people have more money to donate to parties and spend on products they are advertised. If it is a problem, it sounds like a great one to have. What's best: new old people are being made every day and they are a huge cohort right now. This will also surprise the youth-o-philes in SV, but young people eventually grow up to be old people and they almost always change drastically in political views, media consumption, and purchase decisions. Sure, they probably won't be on Facebook and the current Republican party will change, but that just means Instagram will be the new old people place and the future Republicans will have made their mark.
- reaperducer 7y ago
  young people eventually grow up to be old people and they almost always change drastically in political views, media consumption, and purchase decisions. This is true. I knew a bunch of really lefty people in the colleges I went to. Now that they're full adults, only one still adheres to that mantra. My guess about it all is that it's easy to be conservative when you have something to conserve. It's easy to be liberal when you're not invested in a house, neighborhood, career, children, etc... because most of your life is ephemeral.

throwaway122378 7y ago

How’s life in your Bay Area bubble?

adjkant 7y ago
It's not hard to look at the age breakdown for each of the political parties and see this checks out. https://www.people-press.org/2018/03/20/1-trends-in-party-affiliation-among-demographic-groups/ https://www.people-press.org/2018/03/20/1-trends-in-party-af...
- Mountain_Skies 7y ago
  Haven't Republicans traditionally trended older? If there are enough voters who change parties as they age, does it matter that one party tends older while the other trends younger?
  - adjkant 7y ago
    I hear that claim a lot but if you look at the link I posted under the "A wide – and growing – generational divide in partisanship" heading, it doesn't appear to actually be the case. If that were true you'd likely see a much bigger pull to republicans as Gen X aged during the studied period (94-17). Also doesn't explain the sharp millennial pull to democrats at all.
- tomp 7y ago
  This assumes that people's political affiliations don't change as they age. Given by the amount of youth that support communism I sincerely hope you're wrong.
  - adjkant 7y ago
    As I said in other comments, you can look at those graphs and see they are relatively static across all generations. That said, what isn't pictured is the shift of the ideologies of the parties themselves, which both have gotten more progressive long term, though not really in the years studied in this case. > Given by the amount of youth that support communism I sincerely hope you're wrong. As someone in that demographic it sounds like you're listening to way too many conservative sources trying to scare you. I'm very heavily liberal and even I know maybe 1 in 1000 that actually want any form of communism. Most people my age in the US (Millenial / Gen Z border) on the left are very much for the hybrid socialism / capitalism of Bernie and much of Europe.
notyourwork 7y ago
Why from a throwaway?
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tenpies 7y ago

Is it a problem? Older people are more likely to vote and spend more time on Facebook. Older people have more money to donate to parties and spend on products they are advertised. If it is a problem, it sounds like a great one to have. What's best: new old people are being made every day and they are a huge cohort right now. This will also surprise the youth-o-philes in SV, but young people eventually grow up to be old people and they almost always change drastically in political views, media consumption, and purchase decisions. Sure, they probably won't be on Facebook and the current Republican party will change, but that just means Instagram will be the new old people place and the future Republicans will have made their mark.

reaperducer 7y ago
young people eventually grow up to be old people and they almost always change drastically in political views, media consumption, and purchase decisions. This is true. I knew a bunch of really lefty people in the colleges I went to. Now that they're full adults, only one still adheres to that mantra. My guess about it all is that it's easy to be conservative when you have something to conserve. It's easy to be liberal when you're not invested in a house, neighborhood, career, children, etc... because most of your life is ephemeral.