I think teens abandoned Facebook like 10 years ago
Surely longer ago than that? Facebook hasn't been cool for probably over 15 years
Has FB been cool since they got rid of signups limited by .edu email addresses?
That was basically the end. When it was only friends and the feed sorted by "new,", it was super fun. When my aunts started joining it became much less fun.
the feed sorted by “new,”
Yeah, and it went from "let's just add some stuff" to outright "we will force feed you this slop and you will like it" from there. It felt like you were a goose being prepped for Christmas' foie gras.
That's when it was cool to teens who didn't have .edu emails addresses (but not long after).
No, because that's when the olds took it over.
It went downhill when poking and sheep throwing went away.
Because Whatsapp is totally not owned by FB.
It’s not about why owns it. It’s about where young people can be without getting bothered by their parents and other old people.
I'm 41.....you telling me the kids today don't think of me as the greatest person who ever existed??? Pssshhh that's malarkey! I won't hear of it! EVERYONE thinks I'm the greatest person who ever existed! My lexicon includes words like "malarkey" and "lexicon"! Kids think that's cool right???
I'm 39 so I am slightly more rizz than you. I maintain my levels of brat by regularly updating my skibidi vocab.
Yo, your lexicon is making my malarkey happy
Where there any teens on Twitter? Last I was there it was full of angry middle-age men.
before musk came it was pretty full, most of them have moved to threads
Ah, the curse of algorithmic social network. It’s full of angry middle-aged men if you follow those / interact with them. There are / were big communities formed around various pop stars on Twitter and those are quite different demographics.
It's pretty clear. Facebook is now full of crap created by artificial intelligence (and not only).
That is a weird way of describing it. Teens aren't "abandoning" FB & X; they never signed up to begin with. And why would that? They are platforms built for and filled with millennials+.
A decade ago is when teens stopped using Facebook, unless they're counting Instagram in those metrics?
then they would have to count WhatsApp too...
Isn't whatsapp another data mining app for Facebook?
Yes, although to nowhere near the same extent as Facebook and Instagram.
The chats are E2EE using Signal's encryption protocol, so very good.
But they will certainly mine everything else they can get. They may not know what you're saying, but they do know who you're talking to, when you're doing it, your contacts, your profile pic, how often you send images, etc. any web links with tracking info embedded in the URL will likely be tracked too, once you open them.
This still baffles me. What's Facebook's end game here? They are built on data collection and spying, but they own an app that is E2EE.
Honestly, I think they just saw that Whatsapp was becoming the standard chat app for basically all of the world outside of the US and China, and just didn't want anybody else to have it.
Additionally, metadata is better than no data, I guess.
If you go only by the metadata, they know all your friends, their phone numbers, your location history, when do you chat, with whom, how often and how long. And I'm fairly sure they index conversation in some form.
Just location history can paint a decent picture of what you do, where do you go, what do you like, which friends are nearby, etc... and all of that was implemented like 15+ years ago, imagine what they can do today with AI. It's fair to say FB knows more about you then you do (FB, IG, Wapp...). And to be blunt, it could probably determine what ppls shit smells like, judging by all the pictures of a meal they post on IG.
Ok, I feel old. The only reason facebook has any relevance to me is the market place. What’s the best alternative?
That's just it, Facebook is kinda the default option, and almost everyone has an account there. It's why so many clubs arrange everything through a Facebook page.
Okay? But what does Whatsapp has anything to do with the other? DM?
I don't consider WhatsApp social media.
My family has a signal group. I started it two years ago.
Almost no one pays any attention to it, unless they accidentally open the app once a month, but they're all still there and can be spoken to.
I put a PSA out a month ago that I'll no longer respond on Facebook Messenger or SMS after the turn of the year. Tough shit. There was some groaning but, if there's no other way, either use Signal or invest in a Pigeon coop and get training.
This is news? The article’s own graph puts this about 6 years ago
WhatsApp? The instant messenger boomers use on their phones?
Damn, who saw that coming.
american, right? It's very popular in other places.
Most countries stopped using SMS ages ago. WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram are ubiquitous.
I WISH signal was ubiquitous. Half of my friends are still using Facebook Messenger so I still have to resort to using SMS for them
Weird, considering facebook does all the shit those other sites do.
People go where their friends are. Their grandparents are on Facebook.
Teens are on Facebook?
How else you gonna cyber bully the transfer student
Gee I wish they had just left Facebook as a way to share photos and updates with friends and family, instead of turning it into a viral content clusterfuck to capture the youth audience. It didn’t even work.
well Facebook still owns them and will own them when they all switch to instagram reels like America wants them to do
I guess I'll never know what the kids are saying ever again because there's no way I'm installing either of those apps.
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