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Probably. But Facebook doesn't care. They have Instagram, WhatsApp and soon the metaverse. They have enough pans on the fire to keep cooking. I left it long ago

Probably. But Facebook doesn't care. They have Instagram, WhatsApp and soon the metaverse. They have enough pans on the fire to keep cooking. I left it long ago too. But WhatsApp is harder to do without. I think their company is doing fine and they seem to diversify very well. The only boat that they really seem to have missed is the community that tiktok serves. But it seems to offer the lowest standard of viral memes and stupid joke videos.. I'm not on tiktok but every time someone sends me a video I really hate, it has their logo on it. I've literally never seen anything that came across my WhatsApp with that logo that was worth watching. So I'm definitely not tempted to try. For some reason it really rubs me the wrong way. It seems to embody everything I hated about what Facebook became. If I were leading Facebook I'd not want to double down on that direction either. For what it's worth, when I was on Facebook I also hated people (re)sharing memes and videos. I used it to see what my friends were up to in their lives but the amount of crap became too high. Too many people sharing memes, 'funny' videos, petitions or trying to sell/promote stuff. I think it's the algorithms egging them on. Trying to get as many likes and followers as they can. Eventually people got disillusioned with that rat race on Facebook, and I think the same will happen to the tiktok crowd. But maybe social media is just not for me. The more algorithms involved, the worse it seems to get at showing me what I want to see. I have very little patience for wading through a timeline of stuff I'm not interested in trying to find the one bit of worthwhile information. WhatsApp has pretty much taken over that function for me. Because it doesn't do any prioritising or inserting ads or content it thinks I will like, it just passes messages like it should do. Just like Facebook used to do before it went down the toilet. Most of my real friends I now have in WhatsApp groups. But of course that's also owned by Facebook.. So yes I think Facebook the company (now meta) will be fine. Facebook the service not. I think the metaverse is a risky bet but potentially very rewarding.

redwood 5y ago
They definitely care! Metaverse is.. highly speculative
mathlover2 5y ago
> and soon the metaverse That assumes Meta's plans for the metaverse ever pay off, and in my humble opinion, that's less than certain.
- GekkePrutser 5y ago
  I think it will do well. I really like VR and I see the added value. It really offers something new. I'm not sure if I trust Facebook with making it something worth using for me. They seem focused on becoming the middle man for selling content like Apple with their app store. Which sounds good. I can get on board with that. But I think their mindset will draw them back into datamining, 'engagement' and ads anyway. They're just employing too many people that are really good at it.. It's hard to turn the corporate equivalent of an aircraft carrier around. But I hope I'm wrong. However when it becomes a success, competitors will come up with a different focus. They will have demonstrated the added value and others will jump in. Either way it's going to be good for VR. I think they really have something with this. And it's a ballsy move going all-in on it. They regained some of my respect for it.
  - mathlover2 5y ago
    I think VR will definitely take off as a gaming medium. I don't think it's going to take off as a Metaverse for social media. From what I can gather, most people don't want to work and live with an Oculus Rift headset on most of the day. Heck, a lot of people couldn't stand being restricted to Zoom and other internet interaction during lockdown (admittedly I didn't mind as most of my social life was online anyway prior to the lockdown.) Imagine trying to make all of that happen via VR headsets instead of tablets and screens.
decafninja 5y ago
Isn't Instagram suffering from the same problem, just lagging? Teens, tweens, and younger twentysomethings already seem to regard Instagram as something for "old" people. My main social circle heavily uses Instagram, but its composed of late-20s to early-40s people, which does seem to be the prime Instagram demographic right now. Instagram kinda feels like the original Facebook as it was back in the late 2000s to early 2010s.
- reducesuffering 5y ago
  > Teens, tweens, and younger twentysomethings already seem to regard Instagram as something for "old" people. Not really. I'm in a pretty diverse sport and the high schoolers I'm familiar with are still using Instagram too.

redwood 5y ago

They definitely care! Metaverse is.. highly speculative

mathlover2 5y ago

> and soon the metaverse That assumes Meta's plans for the metaverse ever pay off, and in my humble opinion, that's less than certain.

GekkePrutser 5y ago
I think it will do well. I really like VR and I see the added value. It really offers something new. I'm not sure if I trust Facebook with making it something worth using for me. They seem focused on becoming the middle man for selling content like Apple with their app store. Which sounds good. I can get on board with that. But I think their mindset will draw them back into datamining, 'engagement' and ads anyway. They're just employing too many people that are really good at it.. It's hard to turn the corporate equivalent of an aircraft carrier around. But I hope I'm wrong. However when it becomes a success, competitors will come up with a different focus. They will have demonstrated the added value and others will jump in. Either way it's going to be good for VR. I think they really have something with this. And it's a ballsy move going all-in on it. They regained some of my respect for it.
- mathlover2 5y ago
  I think VR will definitely take off as a gaming medium. I don't think it's going to take off as a Metaverse for social media. From what I can gather, most people don't want to work and live with an Oculus Rift headset on most of the day. Heck, a lot of people couldn't stand being restricted to Zoom and other internet interaction during lockdown (admittedly I didn't mind as most of my social life was online anyway prior to the lockdown.) Imagine trying to make all of that happen via VR headsets instead of tablets and screens.

decafninja 5y ago

Isn't Instagram suffering from the same problem, just lagging? Teens, tweens, and younger twentysomethings already seem to regard Instagram as something for "old" people. My main social circle heavily uses Instagram, but its composed of late-20s to early-40s people, which does seem to be the prime Instagram demographic right now. Instagram kinda feels like the original Facebook as it was back in the late 2000s to early 2010s.

reducesuffering 5y ago
> Teens, tweens, and younger twentysomethings already seem to regard Instagram as something for "old" people. Not really. I'm in a pretty diverse sport and the high schoolers I'm familiar with are still using Instagram too.