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My anecdotal experience is that the "younger and cuter" crowd has moved on to Instagram, or even Snapchat. Many more options in social media than 12 years ago.
by bmarquez 7y ago
My anecdotal experience is that the "younger and cuter" crowd has moved on to Instagram, or even Snapchat. Many more options in social media than 12 years ago.
- wolco 7y agoThere are less options compared to back then. Nevermind MySpace,friendster, Hi5 or xing you had the biggest aol. Then you had messenger programs (aim, icq, yahoo, msn, etc). You had irc. You had blogging or photo communities like flickr or meetup.com for events. Facebook, twitter and reddit were around just not as popular.
- bmarquez 7y agoAround the time of the parent comment, 12 years ago, Facebook was eating everyone else's lunch. Friendster was dead, Myspace was in decline (mainly because FB opened up to everyone besides college students), nobody I knew in the USA used Hi5 or xing. Flickr, meetup, and IRC existed and still exist but they were never the primary social network for the "younger and cuter" college crowd. If you wanted to connect with your cute classmate 12 years ago, it was almost certain she had a Facebook. It would no longer be certain today. I actually miss the 2007-era Facebook. No likes, no timeline algorithm, no shares/reposts made for a fun experience at the time.