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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.
3 billion monthly active sure sounds a little excessive. I wonder if there's some shenanigans going on, combining other facebook's services.
Where I'm from. Facebook is free of charge on data connections on some Telcos.
That's why almost all people with data connection, whether pre paid or post paid are most likely using Facebook.
A while back I remember hearing "dying" was only accurate in the West, but that was a matter of years ago so it may or may not still be true.
I'm in Canada, and I'm pretty locked into Facebook for a few things:
People always talk about WhatsApp but no one in North America uses it.
Yep. It was easy for me to get rid of WhatsApp. Facebook Messenger, not so much
It's probably because people on Discord and Reddit aren't fully reflective of the wider world population.
The same goes for Twitter. It's losing users, but there are still lots of them.
They're popular because they offer something to its users. It's truly as simple as that.
Not just that, but the people that more quickly kump ship are the ones that are more tech savvy and click less on ads. So i bet facebook actually is more profitable now per user than when everyone was using it.
Bots
It has to be, right? Are we that out of touch with normies theses days?
Marketplace and local groups for the tea.
I hate that Facebook marketplace overtook Craigslist because I have a bunch of shit to sell and don't want to log into my Facebook account to do it.
If it's under 50 lbs just sell it on eBay. Way less hassle, unless your account is brand new, then you'll have a bunch of scammers trying to message you.
That might work for a couple things but I've got furniture that's not nice enough for a consignment shop and is upholstered so Goodwill won't take it.
Once yard sales start up in the spring I'll probably drop them off at one and tell the folks they can keep whatever they get for them.
There are so many scams on FB marketplace, it is awful. I tried giving away an old lawnmower and only got people trying to scam me. Or pay them to come get it.
No, I am not paying you $30 to pick up a still running lawnmower.
This is pretty much the entire reason my wife still uses it at all.
Bots are prob also included in these stats
Bots are people too
I live in Morocco. I keep leaving Facebook for months but I end up going back there even though I don't like it at all. The reason is that all the people I know and all local content is available only through Facebook. There are hardly any Moroccans on the Fediverse, I've only seen like one other person in all my years of using Mastodon. If I wanna see what's going on in the country, the city and anything related to the region then I am obliged to be on Facebook. I suppose this is the case with most developing and non-english speaking countries.
Yes definitely the case, I see the same in the Philippines. Other side of the world I know but similar reality. Countries like these where it dominates adds millions upon millions of users.
Also from the Philippines and I don't know anybody else that use Fediverse aside from myself. Heck, nobody haven't even heard it and only a couple knows about reddit and discord. Literally everybody uses Facebook for everything and facebook messenger for messaging other people.
I didn't even have an account when I lived in France because only old people used it, and I didn't understand the billions users figures either.
But since I live in canada I need facebook to do anything, everyone uses it. If I want to get in a bar, they ask me for my Facebook to check my age. When I get a package I only get notified on Facebook. News by my school are only published on Facebook...
The aversion to change in humans
Change requires energy. If you're fully invested in surviving and putting food on the table, there's little left to explore change.
Bots. Lots and lots of bots.
It's how I talk to your mom
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.
