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Ask HN: Is Facebook Still Cool?
- gigatexal 4y agoLol no and it hasn’t been for years
- egc 4y agoNo
- coder4life 4y agoNothing is still cool.
- pseingatl 4y agoFB is like newspapers; for old people only.
- rvz 4y agoThe OP already knows the answer. The Facebook addiction has already worn off for the majority of folks and the new digital crack, cocaine of today is TikTok. But don't worry, all the 'cool kids' are using it today but as I said before, they are no different to Facebook and it is in fact even worse. [0][1] But that is hardly a surprise to see when its glorified algorithm dictates what is seen and unseen to point where it manipulates its users to suggest claims like: 'TikTok is the best thing to have happened to the Internet'. [2] Anyone could have said the same thing about Facebook 10+ years ago. Would you now say that about Facebook today? [0] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilybakerwhite/tiktok-tapes-us-user-data-china-bytedance-access https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilybakerwhite/tiktok-... [1] https://www.nrk.no/osloogviken/xl/tiktok-doesn_t-show-the-war-in-ukraine-to-russian-users-1.15921522 https://www.nrk.no/osloogviken/xl/tiktok-doesn_t-show-the-wa... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28135484 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28135484
- fbisajoke 4y agoTo have a Facebook account in the beginning meant one was in/related to a University (needed an edu account) To have a Facebook account now means one has an AARP card (only old people use FB) Thanks for the laugh.
- beardyw 4y agoWas never cool. OK in the early years. Not so for over 10 years.
- BaudouinVH 4y agocough Cambridge Analytica cough privacy cough Totally uncool to me
- masonic 4y agoStill?