To think facebook is dying out?

From my (admittedly) anecdotal perspective FB is more popular among my dad's generation, and I can understand why.

No judgement here.

How do you suggest that works? There are a finite number of older people alive. Are you saying more and more older people, that weren't previously using Facebook, now use it?
Again there's data available on this. Doesn't skew that old.
(I'm in online advertising; we spend millions on FB ads a month across our various clients; most clients ad spend is growing YoY and in some cases quite significantly so - very much not dying out in my experience).
https://www.statista.com/statistics/376128/facebook-global-user-age-distribution/

Or the demographic is getting older ?

It's clearly not dead, though. I use it daily and post in groups where photos and updates get thousands of likes and comments everyday.

Their monthly active users are growing quarter on quarter, still. So you're wrong basically.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly-active-facebook-users-worldwide/

My dad and his mates (60s) still use it, but he lives abroad and it's his lifeline in a way.

Apart from that I don't know anyone that does anymore. There's a general disaffection with it, and lots of SM.

I think you’re right in that the “posting about yourself” aspect is dying out - but I find the groups aspect still very popular and use it a lot

Yes, I also do that. It's really tedious and I'm getting fed up with it. So you're right that they are shooting themselves in the foot with it.

I was thinking about this yesterday as my feed was full of utter crap - recommended pages. Endless posts from things like "The Dull Man's Group" and other groups I haven't joined and have no interest in joining.

I am forever ticking the X on posts like that and ticking the "irrelevant" reason as to why I don't want posts like that on my feed.

I think Facebook are shooting themselves in the foot with all this irrelevant crap.

I was thinking about this yesterday as my feed was full of utter crap - recommended pages. Endless posts from things like "The Dull Man's Group" and other groups I haven't joined and have no interest in joining.
I liked a couple of pages relating to 70s and 80s memories and there were so many posts I unliked them as there was barely anything else on my feed.
I think my friends post way less than they used to. I moved abroad 10 years ago and it was great at the beginning for keeping in touch as people shared more photos and posts but these days those posts seem to be few and far between.
I don't know whether people have shifted to instagram or just stopped posting in general.
I'm not sure it is dying out but is going through a change in the way it is used - so people might continue to use it to connect with groups and interact with pages from businesses they are interested in rather than what it was originally used for - keeping in touch with friends and sharing things with them.

I hope it does!

Constant bans make it difficult to use but I persevere!

I post on the odd private group but very rarely on general update site. The main reason is I just think it's naff posting updates.

I use it to keep in touch with the localities we visit regularly on holiday and the one where I grew up.Our own local FB page is just full of requests for plumbers and window cleaners and that sort of thing and doesn't really contain a lot of actual community information.Other than that,I'm using it less and less.I rarely post myself these days,and I'm noticing fewer posts from other friends.

I think it depends how you use it.

Personally, i love it for the groups function. I'm a big sewist, and will sew all the time if I could - being part of the fabric and pattern groups gives so much more inspiration. If I get stuck on something, I can always post a question in a group and generally get a response within half an hour.

Similarly, our village FB page is a great way of getting recommendations for tradesmen, finding out what's going on in the village bar, supporting local activities etc.

But in general, I do think that social media firms have ruined the way people use them. They are far too intrusive with adds/suggested content/irrelevant algorithms which has moved it away from what it was originally for. Instagram, I'm looking at you - my feed is constantly "suggested content" rather than people I follow. If I wanted to look at suggested content, I would look at the explore page!

I've had fb years, since it became open and not the Facebook as it once was. I used to keep up with friends posts and post myself. Since it has become predominantly ads and groups you may like, rather than friends posts. I've found I've posted less. Now I generally post at Xmas, birthdays, a few life events, occasionally every couple of months. My friends are also doing the same. I now use it to keep up with community groups, baby groups in the area and what's on.

I use it as photo storage. It clears the photos off my phone. Some recipe sites. That's about it

I think all the advertising is killing Facebook off. I still find it an excellent resource for finding local tradesmen and services as well as useful information about road closures and train cancellations.

Doesn’t look like you’re right about that, generally it is still far more used than any other.

I stopped using it completely a couple of years ago, I go on occasionally to look at specific groups or business pages.
DH still uses his a lot and posts very regularly, but he doesn't really have IRL friends. He gets a lot of support from his online ones and they've helped him through difficulties.

Facebook died as a social media platform 8 years ago once instagram and snapchat (and later tik tok) took over. The only people that still posted regularly back then were my mum’s friends or friends my age when there was a big life update (I.e. wedding, babies, moving country). None of my friends post now. I only still use it for marketplace but would otherwise delete.

Deleted my original profile after a painful break up in 2016 - didn't feel comfortable with the tendency for certain details to be so public. A year or two later created a basic profile and had one friend on it - my ex! We were back in touch, sorting things out between us and getting on beautifully as friends. There was a word game you could only play if you had a facebook account. We had played it a lot when we were together (very long distance relationship) and at that point it became a way for the two of us to have some contact on a daily basis for a while, hence my creating a new profile. But I really took umbrage at Meta's insistence that you download a separate app for FB messaging, so never bothered with that. Over time the ex and I drifted apart to a great extent. We're still in touch but have moved on significantly. I stopped using the profile to keep in touch with him (whatsapp serves that purpose) and belonged to a couple of charity groups and interest pages on there until I realised just how cynical Meta had become with the exploitative algorithms they use and that depressing "infinite scroll" thing it does - an endless feed of advertising and attempts to get you to join group after group after group, along with mind numbing clusters of so-called "relevant" posts about the latest dead celebrity. Grim as. So I ditched that profile last year and will never go back. Don't use any of the other social media sites or apps (other than WhatsApp, which I can tolerate because it actually feels purposeful in terms of communication value).

Like a previous poster, I get irritated at times by the businesses and councils and charities that make so much of their online presence/access revolve around a facebook page or group. I no. longer follow their links, and I tell friends who send me FB links on WhatsApp that I don't click on them.

The damage to the global social fabric Zuckerberg and his henchmen have done is chilling, and I note that he shows no remorse whatsoever, and even now challenges governments and the like to make him stop various practices which exploit children and other vulnerable groups. That all costs money that comes out of budgets and it's disgusting. I shudder to think I was a user for as long as I was.

@Jumpingthruhoops they're the exact reasons I love insta. Style, thrifting, travel, food, celebs. Pretty much every celebrity has an instagram page these days to connect with their fans. I love the story feature, means you can upload something that interests you or somewhere you are but it's only there for 24 hours so isn't clogging up your page, or your friends feeds

I still use it mainly for groups.
Friends have gone quiet, but we're getting to the teenagers life-stage, so not the rock and roll of our 20s and empty-nesters, and not much to say about family life, plus people became more circumspect over time anyway.

The relentless adverts and suggested posts are annoying and at a level where they will defeat their own objective.

I like a few local parkrun pages. I want to see their updates in a timely fashion, not 5 days late after fb filled in with random parkruns from around the world.

I've never found instagram very user friendly.