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But they use Instagram instead. Either way Zuck wins.
by petilon 5y ago
But they use Instagram instead. Either way Zuck wins.
- elwell 5y agoFacebook is for old people. Instagram is for moderately old people. Snapchat is for moderately young people. TikTok is for young people.
- chris_wot 5y agoHopefully soon Facebook won't even be for young people.
- makeworld 5y agoEveryone uses Instagram, teens most of all.
- jader201 5y agoMost of the “not so young” people I know do not even have an Instagram account. Of my two teens, only one of them uses it (the other has zero interest). I’m trying to do my part in keeping my teens off social media. I’m about 50% successful.
- spideymans 5y agoEh… anecdotes are anecdotal, but in my experience the only reason people use Instagram is for messenger. Almost everyone is on Instagram, so it makes it really easy to connect with people. Kind of like a giant phonebook. I almost never see any of my friends posting on Instagram anymore. The only ones that do are artists and people with some “personal brand” to promote (aka, they have a business interest in posting to IG). Some more people post on stories, but even that’s rare. Like Facebook, most people I know hate using Instagram, so I figure it’s only a matter of time before it’s engagement numbers go down. I’m in my 20s for reference. I feel like in the coming years we’ll see these Gen Z kids almost entirely eschew posting on social media. Most young people I know are almost entirely socializing with their friends via messaging apps, while very rarely making posts on social media. Instagram will fade from relevance for the youth, much like Facebook, and I don’t expect that any social media platform will replace it. Yes, TikTok is popular, but it’s more akin to YouTube that twitter/Facebook/Instagram. We’ll probably see some dramatic headlines about “the death of the social network” at some point over the next few years. Messaging will be the future of digital socializing. I think this is ultimately driven by young people coming to the realization that posting to social media is either completely unfulfilling, or actively detrimental to their mental well being. Platform owners thought they could ignore the issue, without considering that their target demographic may very well just reject social networking all together.
- bcrosby95 5y agoMy niece is in 5th grade, and she hangs out and communicates with her friends on Roblox. Not sure how common that is.
- rland 5y agoFacebook : boomers Instagram : millenials TikTok : gen z snapchat is sort of irrelevant from what I can gather.
- spideymans 5y agoSnapchat is very relevant for college kids
- mseepgood 5y agoWhat does Gen X use?
- piceas 5y agoBlackberry
- dagw 5y agoSnapchat is the primary social media and chat platform for my daughter and all her friends (ages 11-13).
- matt-attack 5y agoI've literally never logged in to any one of those. I have to say, I'm kind of proud of that. Occasionally people will send me a link to something and it's on Instagram. Clicking for me give me a Login modal. They make it too easy for me, click.
- jollybean 5y agoTry TikTok. It's completely unlike other social media and it's addictive without being negative, which kind of goes against our current instinctive thinking about social media. At the start, it's completely dumb videos that kids will find funny. But the algorithm is smart and will find content you like. My feed is now ultra cute cat and cat rescue stories, and really, really sharp non-professional comedians acting out vignettes, they are better than anything pro, and better than anything on TV, and, amateur musicians playing solos, odd instruments etc.. I enjoy TikTok more than Television or Netflix. It's very hard to describe to non-users because on paper it's very much like YouTube, but the format is so short, and the kinds of bits are so much more ephermal ... and for some reason most of the toxicity is not there. Also, you get to see first hand some 'live events' because people stream from everywhere, and it gives you neat perspective. For example, the 'Trucker Convey' in Ottawa Ontario. After watching the event live from various perspectives on TikTok, while simultaneously watching broadcast news cover the event, it became unsettlingly clear how aggressively misinformative broadcast news was of the event. (Even if I fully disagree with the protesters, they should be represented fairly) TikToks has radically changed my view of content moderation and demonstrated that it additivity does not have to be based on fear and anger. They censor aggressively, and get away with it partly because it's not really seen as a platform for 'information'. So you won't see a lot of controversial things there, and also I don't mind that technically 'Tiannamen Square' content will be absent. I mean, it's just TikTok (is what I tell myself). It's disturbingly addictive without being particularly political or controversial and for that reason alone it's worth having a look at for those who care to pay attention.
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- ByThyGrace 5y agoWhenever I see this "social network per age group" depiction, Twitter is never mentioned. I wonder why.
- threatofrain 5y agoWhere does Reddit fit in all of this?
- itisit 5y agoActually TikTok is now the leader with teens. [0] And I don't believe the CCP would allow a sale to a US-based company, least of all Facebook/Meta. [0] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/18/tiktok-usage-topped-instagram-in-2021-among-kids-12-to-17-forrester-.html https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/18/tiktok-usage-topped-instagra...
- Osiris 5y agoIsn't TikTok just videos though (I don't use it so I'm guessing)? It doesn't really seem useful for sharing the same kind of information that people use Facebook for (mostly text based information, questions, etc).
- pylon 5y agoFor now yes, but I would say it's really meant as replacement for Instagram rather than Facebook. So videos only seems fine compared to a service that was primarily for pictures. They can always expand, but I feel like these social media services usually have a hard time pivoting to a different medium after their initial success.
- spideymans 5y agoTikTok feels like YouTube. It has hundreds of millions of users, but only a small fraction will ever post anything. Unless the dynamics of TikTok radically change, I can’t see it being an Instagram replacement.
- umeshunni 5y agoYou'll be surprised. People post videos with walls of text or post a video of them narrating whatever they were planning to write.