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techleopard t1_itzf6ty wrote

Reply to comment by DirkDiggler_Chiraq in Facebook owner Meta sales continue to fall by umberto_pagano

Nothing I stated suggested it's dying. You're just angry about it and will literally say anything in support of the site shutting down. Please, quote the part of my post that is evidence of it dying and explain why you feel that way.

I could say, "The moon is in a stable orbit" and you are like, "See!? It's going to explode!" and everyone claps like a bunch of red caps at a Trump rally because you just keep repeating what they want to hear.

I'm not denying the company's business practices are tricky, but y'all act like Facebook isn't still the biggest social network there is.

If you want FB to die, you have to have a network that does it's job better that will drain it's userbase. I'm sorry, but none of the existing networks hold a candle to FB's userbase and you won't force people into the other networks just by making Facebook inaccessible because they don't have the infrastructure in place to do what they need.

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DirkDiggler_Chiraq t1_itzlfxd wrote

…uh sure lol

> Sure, there's other social networks out there, but many of them are geared towards younger audiences and, if we're being honest, are more about feeding into extremely low attention spans and entertainment drive, like Tiktok and Snapchat. Some do not work well on anything but a mobile device, if at all, while others, like MeWe, simply don't have the infrastructure in place to create big networks of people.

Right, and those social networks are populated by young people. Facebook isn’t. Young people don’t like FB and find it to be something for dog show enthusiasts. The user base is dying. This is well known and widely reported.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/09/30/facebook-scrambles-to-escape-death-spiral-as-users-flee-sales-drop.html

https://www.digitalinformationworld.com/2022/06/facebook-set-to-lose-14-million-users.html?m=1

https://fortune.com/2021/10/25/facebook-teens-usage-harm-studies/amp/

https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/11/teens-abandoned-facebook-pew-study/amp/

> You're just angry about it and will literally say anything in support of the site shutting down.

You seem weird af.

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techleopard t1_itzxp7g wrote

You're funny if you think a platform designed for a younger audience means that another platform is automatically dying. Young people DO still use Facebook, whether you want to admit it or not. They're using both. Fact is, those other platforms hold a fraction of users.

You're talking about billions of users. Facebook losing 14 million preteens to Tiktok is not signaling the death of the website. FB has nearly 3 billion active users, with 1.7 billion daily active users -- other networks are less than a few hundred million. Would you like me to draw you a picture of the difference that makes?

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