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> I've yet to see any actual movement away from it From what I've read in various places the concern isn't people leaving, but certain groups (mostly young dem
by dspillett 5y ago
> I've yet to see any actual movement away from it
From what I've read in various places the concern isn't people leaving, but certain groups (mostly young demographics) not bothering to join. This means that user numbers are relatively stagnant and that active user numbers will be falling as will average engagement (or whatever marketers measure these days).
I've seen some evidence of this: younger members of my hobby groups are not on there, or are just because the group is and they don't use it for anything else but receiving group updates.
- ghaff 5y agoMost of my (not younger) cohort aren't so much not joining or rage quitting as just not really posting any longer. A lot of my somewhat casual professional/school/etc. acquaintances who used to post pretty regularly now post something once in a blue moon and I'm pretty much in the same boat. So it's something I glance at maybe a few times a week now.
- rossdavidh 5y agoMy 16-year old daughter, who is a user of TikTok, has never joined Facebook, and none of her friends seem to be suggesting that she should so either they haven't joined either or it's just not how they communicate with their peers. They text, which has the big advantage of being a way of communicating without your parents or grandparents being in the conversation. :)
- raverbashing 5y agoIf tiktok has one redeeming quality is that it actively buries the polarizing content (of course some of this is debatable, like content relating to minorities, etc) But no bad vibes allowed there
- kleinsch 5y agoNone of her friends use IG?
- rossdavidh 5y agoHer mother introduced her to IG, but she doesn't seem to have been all that interested in it. Certainly doesn't seem to be a thing among her peer group. I should mention that YouTube most definitely is a thing, although that seems to be used more like TV and less like a social network (among her peers).
- shmatt 5y agoAs a younger person groups is all I use it for. I also use Instagram (so they still get my data) and TikTok, but when I need advice/help/reviews/just reading about other peoples issues the quality of content is slightly higher and broader than reddit in FBs earnings report this week MAU were up 6% vs. last year, far from stagnant.
- fernandotakai 5y agoyounger people, at least where i live, are mostly using instagram, tiktok, and whatsapp. so two out of three are facebook properties.
- goatlover 5y agoNot the FB site/app itself, but WhatsApp, Instagram and Occulus would attract some of the younger demographic.