I read “it’s dying” by people on Discord and Reddit all the time, but the numbers prove otherwise. It’s been going up this entire time and sitting over 3 billion MONTHLY ACTIVE USERS!
I feel like the bubble around people on other platforms saying “who uses Facebook anymore lol” is kind of wild given the numbers. Keep in mind these are active users not just abandoned accounts.
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Bots. Lots and lots of bots.
I use it because it has what I want.
It has my local community group who discuss ideas and plan events. It has my mother’s group who only use Facebook messenger to communicate. It has my extended family who live overseas. If I left and asked them to send me pictures I would only get a few a year, this way I see pics every week.
Do I hate the idea of it? Yes. Would I like to delete my account? Yes. Is the trade-off worth it for me to stay? Also yes.
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Because non technically savvy people get comfortable and it’s always difficult to get them to move, so everyone who wants to change, can’t because they end up alone and social media only works if you have people to be social with. Younger people will have the same problem with TikTok and the like when their friends age and they want to move. Only new generations start with a clean slate and can get all their friends to start out at the new sites.
Wtf is doyin 😂
Separate Chinese version tiktok, because tiktok itself is banned within China.
Ahhh yes i remember now, the educational version or whatever? Been thinking abt checking it out for a while xD
Network effect. That’s why we need to keep the fediverse alive: so futur generation aren’t forced to signed into Facebook, Discord or whatever would be (or would have been) trendy.
Many overseas countries have Facebook preloaded on a lot of their phones. They also have data caps but Facebook is exempt from counting towards their data cap.
My phone came with Twitter and Facebook preinstalled. I installed LineageOS.
You guys are as bad as the Linux ones 😂
overseas countries
Isn’t that every country? What does that mean?
Some countries aren’t overseas, they’re next to me.
You know, foreign ones
Foreign to where? New Zealand?
maybe lemmy is like reddit too, where everyone assumes everyone is American 😅
Normies.
How the fuck did some one misspell ‘Lemmy’ as ‘Facebook’
It’ll probably stay insanely popular until the boomers die off. They’re not gonna switch to another one, but I don’t any of the younger gens gravitating toward it.
Where lemmy at? Jk
There are dozens of us!
You joke but Lemmy is at the same point as Reddit was when they first started. Reddit just IPO’d at 34/share, up to 68 now. 12 billion USD valuation.
I think Lemmy has a lot more potential than most people think it does… The idea is laughable, but so was $10 billion reddit in 2008 . Not in monetary terms, but in how information could be communicated throughout the world in 20 years.
Gotcha…lemmy IPO when?
Reddit lived because DIGG died. Or at least it got a bump in the right direction
kinda the same applies to lemmy
It was years ago, but I used to work for a US based ISP. I’m a Canadian and the place I was working at had a contract to suppliment their support team.
My team did enhanced support, beyond what the ISP would deal with. Basically it was remote geek squad type service for people’s computers.
While I was working there in the mid 2000’s, there was a Facebook outage. All of Facebook’s services were unavailable. We broke records with how many calls we got that day. Almost all of them went something like this:
Client: “the internet doesn’t work!” Tech: can you open a browser and… Client (interrupting) “it says page cannot be displayed!!11” Tech: I understand, can you tell me what it says at the top in the address bar? (Insert some explaining of how to find the address bar) Client: “facebook.com” Tech: okay, I want you to click on that and erase it, then type in google.com, hit enter, and tell me what the page says. Client: " it says Google, with a (some bad description of a text entry field)" Tech: this is Google’s website, it loaded from the internet, so your internet works. Facebook is down. Client (without missing a beat): “can you fix Facebook?” Tech: No. (Call ends)
I’m certain my employer made bank that day, since clients had to pay an extra monthly charge on their internet bill to speak with us, and their support made a point of dumping calls to us whenever they could. If someone wanted to speak to another tech, sure, but you have to buy this service…
I did not like that job. I actually got a call from an inexperienced Linux user who couldn’t get DNS resolution. I tried to coach him over the phone to determine if his internet was working at all. Before I could actually give him an answer, my manager dropped by (he was monitoring the call) and told me to tell him we could not help him, that the support center only supported Windows based systems, since, out of everyone there, I was the only one with enough Linux knowledge to know what to do, and he didn’t want to give anyone the impression that we could help with Linux.
All the guy needed to do was change his resolv.conf to valid DNS servers and he would have been fine. It doesn’t work that way anymore, but it did at the time, and I knew it. I did not feel good getting off of that call. It’s like, I have the answer, this guy needs the answer, he paid to speak to me, and I really want to help him out, but I would probably lose my job if I do. I was very blunt with him. I said that I could help him, but I wasn’t allowed to. He understood, but I still felt like shit. I was too timid to realize my worth, which was part of the reason I was there to begin with… Now, I would have just made it clear that he’ll only get help on this once, and when we hung up, never expect to reach me again, and that nobody here knows what I do about this stuff, then helped him anyways. Fuck that manager. I’m so glad I don’t work there anymore.
That last paragraph made me sad… It was the most emotional comment Ive read in a while
This says nothing about how much they use reach platform though. Just logging into Facebook and checking what’s up over a month will count here.
People don’t really delete their facebook account. Just keep it around
Even worse, I think I’m part of that number because I’ve unsuccessfully tried to delete my Facebook Account three times now. But every time I check in to make sure it’s finally been deleted, it’s still there. I’m at the brink of suing them for a GDPR violation at this point. F*ck Facebook!
No balls
This is my wife.
She visits once a month for about fifteen minutes because her aunt and uncles only use Facebook to keep everyone in the loop about things like their cancer treatment or something else.
She’s in this image.
It fulfils roles as
- first place - as some sort of virtual home
- second place - as you can conduct businesses in it
- third place - as people congregate in it
It’s large enough that any amount of enshittification is compensated by network effect.
Facebook was extremely aggressive in getting their software preloaded on all hardware sold in developing areas over the last 20 years. So countries like India (with one and a half billion people by itself) have a large segment of users that think Facebook is the internet. It’s Zucks ultimate walled garden.
3 billion of those people likely access Facebook for everything that we think of as online. Commerce, social networking, music, videos, it’s all on Facebook.
large segment of users that think Facebook is the internet.
This really hurt to read somehow. I mean you’re right, but it’s still shit.
Just like how people thought AOL was the Internet 20 years back.
Exactly. We’ve come full-circle. The likes of AOL, Prodigy, and Compuserve were practically eradicated by the open internet, and it’s taken 30+ years to get even close to clawing it back into some kind of walled garden. But it looks like they’re making progress.
I remember that, about a decade ago, Facebook including free access to their services on cell phones in India; there was concern and pushback about creating this walled garden monopoly, obviously to no avail.
My guess is that is why many memes from India from back then involved screenshots of the older generations using Whatsapp as a sort of social network, the subcontinent’s own version of “ok boomer” humor.So countries like India (with one and a half billion people by itself)
Also old people use Facebook a lot here. It was their first social media and they have settled on that. There are some set of people who are switching to Instagram day by day but the rate isn’t any threat to Facebook.
