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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.
A lot of users are also from poorer countries that lack the means to create their own web infrastructure. Using Facebook to run your business account is easier, cheaper, and more reliable than most alternatives there. Phone carriers and ISP often also have "free"-data for certain social media platforms. You get 1GB+1GB for Facebook/IG/YT/Some Game. So you are stuck in this loop where everything reinforces itself to use Facebook.
People don't use Facebook, hence you find them on other platforms. They may be thinking that if they don't use it, then nobody does.
But you also have to consider where these people live. It might be "dying" there, while Facebook is getting new users in other markets. I remember watching a video about genocide in Myanmar and the role that Facebook played. Access to Facebook was free if I recall correctly, it was the internet for most people.
It'd be interesting to see data by country.
Boomerbook, lmao
It's worth remembering Meta (Facebook at the time) spent a lot of money making it free to use Facebook on data plans across the world.
It's popular with three sources: Trolls, Idiots, and Bots.
Yes i am a "monthly" user of facebook. I log on about once a month as the strata for my building foes basically everything through facebook.
I look at it like internet explorer a few years ago, it has its claws in everything and its just easier to keep using than for people to find an alternative that satisfys everyone.
It's simple: It Only Does Everything.
Sounds like inflated numbers tbh
For me it's long dead. I only login there to answer the occasional messenger message, that one person sends who still use it. Once messenger adds cross platform messaging which EU DMA forces them to do, I will never login there again.
Boomers
It IS dying, but for the youth. And I'd even say "for the youth that resembles mine"
And even better question is why people still treat the twelfth most popular social media platform like it's an indispensable town square?
I don't know anyone who thinks that or ever has. I doubt it's gaining any new users anyway. It just that the people already there are stubborn to leave. Me included.
Because people treat it like it's an indispensable town square.
This place is chock full of idealists and techies, it's easy to lose track of exactly how much sheer "inertia" and habit shape people's tech choices. And that's assuming there is a choice at all, maybe you either Facebook up or junior isn't going to any activities, nobody knows what's up in the neighborhood, people will either be harder to contact or (partly understandably) look at you like an asocial weirdo, etc
The Twitter crowd is mostly rich people, that's why.
I have and sometimes even use it. Most important reasons: some interest groups stuck on FB (at best they move to Instagram), and my municipality posts their news/info there. Sure they have the official notifications but the really useful stuff is on FB (and I hate it, though I also get why)
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. And at one point I'm pretty sure everyone had an account.
I also assume it counts bots too (which over 80% of Twitter users are)
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!
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.
A significant number of those are not from the USA.
Bunch of useful groups for expats in $country there. The only dedicated platform for expats is internations, and that's so full of scammers and people dedicated to pitch a sale, it's not fun at all.
elder people
And indians
Yep, "The Internet" is just Facebook for them.
Old people living longer.
I own Meta shares have not used FB for 15 years or more. The shares have done well for me.
FB is excellent at leveraging peoples ignorance and haziness.
It is absolutely atrocious to use and constantly tries to ram Algorithmic crap down your through. The thing is, most normies are there and for every person who is Internet savvy enough to see the benefit of Mastodon and Lemmy (and Pixelfed, etc) there are a dozen normies who don’t and can’t be bothered finding out.
I would not say that Facebook is popular, but I will say that it is common. It is literally the Lowest Common Denominator for port of social interaction on the Internet.
because people use. At the end of the day FB and other social media sites are about talking to and connecting to other people. Since lots of people us FB it makes it an easy way to connect. In other words, it is popular because it is big and it is big becasue it is popular.
It's the one place where you can have a group for free.
A group of/for what? There's Lemmy, discord, reddit, telegram, etc where you can have groups of people for various things... I haven't used Facebook in 15 years so I have no idea what's new.
