To think facebook is dying out?

I’d say it’s more popular with a certain demographic, mainly Boomers and Gen X as regular users. I only use it for groups and to contact businesses. I only post on my timeline once or twice a year, and even then it’s only sharing someone else’s post. I’ve not posted anything original for years.

Facebook died as a social media platform 8 years ago once instagram and snapchat (and later tik tok) took over

Do you mean personally? Because, generally that statement is completely untrue:

I haven't posted on my personal feed far years. I would come off FB altogether but the specific medical community groups I am a member of are really useful & helpful.

The advertising is really annoying along with random pages I am encouraged to follow.

I expect this will get worse coming up to GE time.

Not on Twitter/X or instagram.

Was on NextDoor until I got fed up with the same moaners whinging on about people with 'ugly curtains' or dogs weeing on the pavement 🙄

I hardly use Facebook now, I used to use it more as my DC posted photos of their children on it, but now they use other social media instead so there is little point in looking at it.

I think people are getting tired of FB not doing anything about scammers and fake pages. And the number of completely irrelevant ads or pages I should follow means I can barely see what my friends ARE posting. If I go on their pages I can see they are posting things but FB just doesn't bother to share things with you.

Messaging friends and family is still the top activity on Facebook. According to data

"Over 72% of users say they use Facebook to message friends and family. This suggests that the platform’s “social” factor is still alive and kicking. Other popular activities on the platform are posting/sharing photos and videos (63.5%) and keeping up to date with news and events (58.7%).
A significant number of users (54.3%) follow and research brands and products on Facebook. So although it’s mostly for social, your brand can still use the platform to build authentic connections."

I use Facebook for Groups. I belong to about 30 groups. Some are local area groups, some are support groups for health conditions, some are special interest groups. Unless my Facebook friends are in the same groups as I am, then they won't see any of my posts, so it might look to them as though I'm no longer active on Facebook because I don't tend to post stuff onto my own wall.

I suspect that people have matured and just don’t feel the need to brag about their latest car, or share pictures of them eating out… think as we get older we prefer our private lives to be private…. I don’t post anymore but still use it for the groups I’ve joined. Rarely if ever do I look at friends pages, and I certainly don’t have hundreds of friends on there… I only have friends on there that I’m actually friends with in real life. Took loads of old school friends off that I haven’t spoken to since school, some 30 years ago…. We have a separate school page for that where more generic stuff is shared.

Yes. Its all tiktok & insta now

I love it as a quick and easy way to remember so many moments of my kids lives, as you mentioned, the memories coming up are lovely, and it's pretty easy to find things too if you use albums.

We have a lot of family abroad so it's lovely for them to see the kids too and vice versa.

I also like the scrapbook feature so my kids will have a copy of all their photos, I sort of imagine them showing their own kids one day as I am sure life will be very different then!

So I do it mostly for me. A little like a diary or my kids growing up. So I would keep it up regardless of if everyone else stopped lol.

I personally have found the opposite though. Lots of our friends moved to Instagram and Snapchat a few years ago, I guess it was a trendy craze lol. But most have come back now!

I think it has become a place for groups rather than a way of keeping up social contact

Facebook reached a milestone of 3 billion monthly active users by the end of last year, and its user base continues to expand.

It seems that you may no longer align with the primary audience. Facebook's largest user demographic is aged 25-34 years, so if most of your friends fall outside that range, it could explain the decrease in activity.

I don’t use it. Just not interested in the dull shit people post on there, it doesn’t improve anything, there’s nothing to learn or gain.

I prefer Facebook. Don’t use TikTok as I can’t stand the crap on it and I use Instagram more for photos. Facebook is full of adverts though and I hate ads with a passion. I have a weekly spam sort and literally report every ad on Facebook as spam which clears it from my feed. I find if I tell them the ad is irrelevant 3 more pop up in its place. Takes a good 20 minutes but buys a good 2-3 weeks browsing without crap cluttering your feed.

I use it a lot but not in the same way I used too. I mainly use if for groups (based around hobbies and interests). I don’t post as much on my profile as I used too and I don’t think others do either. I still have a couple friends who post several times a day but it gets really boring.

I use it many for local groups that I'm in to keep in touch

I use it daily. I have friends in other parts of the world who post regularly. It’s great to keep in touch and catch-up. I know we could do it elsewhere, but we don’t need to as we still update on FB. I am also in several really useful hobby groups on FB (photography, sewing and gardening). I have culled my FB ‘friends’ so, getting rid of all the random people that I appear to have acquired over the years, but who I don’t have any idea who they are 😮

I have noticed what you’re saying though. FB definitely isn’t ’en vogue’ these days.

I don’t use it anymore. The ads got to me. Plus some people I loved seeing the posts of died and it’s not the same.

I would have left years ago if it wasn't for the discussion groups. I have decided to unfollow all my "friends", change privileges so that my wall is locked and only get notifications from selected groups. I don't use any other social media except LinkedIn, where I also tend to unfollow philosophers and braggers.
Facebook will likely not die; it will turn itself into something different based on what users want. For example, groups are obviously really popular, so Facebook will keep investing in them, and the same goes for the marketplace.

I still like, and use it, prefer it to anything else. Like Instagram too, not interested in TikTok

I am in some very active fb groups for crafts, house owners association, feminism, local buy and sell groups and I haven't noticed a decline in what friends and family post.

Full of the same people either constantly posting photos of their dead distant relative that died twenty years ago

I don't understand these public proclamations of grief. Maybe it is because I am a private person.

One woman I know posts about missing her late husband on the anniversary of when he died and on his birthday.

He was a lazy, heavy drinking, lying, cheating arsehole and they split up years before he died. She now romanticises what she wanted him to be. Sadly her sons look like they are taking after their dad.

I just find it tedious these days. Full of the same people either constantly posting photos of their dead distant relative that died twenty years ago or people completely obsessed with themselves/ self analyzing everything. I've hidden so many people now I don't have many left !!

And how it is used is now different - more community groups and other groups.