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TikTok is not really a direct competitor to Facebook. I'm trapped on Facebook because that is were a lot of my friends and family are, and FB Messenger is the o
by babypuncher 4y ago
TikTok is not really a direct competitor to Facebook. I'm trapped on Facebook because that is were a lot of my friends and family are, and FB Messenger is the only real way I have to talk to a lot of them. TikTok really only competes with a small part of Facebook's business (Instagram). Apple does not enjoy that kind of vendor lock-in.
The impetus to move to competitor when you are unhappy is also a lot stronger when staying with your current provider costs you money.
- LordDragonfang 4y ago>TikTok is not really a direct competitor to Facebook. TikTok isn't a direct competitor in your age demographic. Almost no one under the age of 20 has a Facebook account nowadays - when I asked high schoolers a few years ago it was Instagram instead, and TikTok is increasingly getting bigger.
- babypuncher 4y agoI use both. TikTok feels more like YouTube, Twitter, and Instagram. It is a social media platform where most users follow a relatively small number of influencers, rather than interfacing with their peers. Facebook is more of a communication platform between peers. It kind of competes more with email and messaging clients. Facebook losing sight on this and pushing people to larger more impersonal groups and influencers is why I think they are dying, because everyone else already does that better. For my immediate family, Facebook has largely been supplanted by iMessage and iCloud. We hold conversations and group chats in iMessage, and share photos and videos through iCloud. TikTok fills a different purpose entirely.