To think facebook is dying out?

Whilst I detest Meta, local (and some national) papers have been doing a pretty good job of ruining themselves without help. The shit majority of them fired anyone who could string a sentence together years ago and filled their rags with press releases rebranded as news.

I only use it for groups now.

But the friends feed is still an ad every other post. It’s better but still a lot of ads

It's occasionally useful for local community groups and selling pages but other than that I don't see the point in the site anymore. It's full of spam, scammers and nonsense videos that you can't remove from your feed, the amount of adverts is ridiculous, the UI changes so frequently that it's impossible to keep up with and it goes down so often that I've started to wonder if servers are even being maintained anymore.

I only use it for various hobby groups I belong to and local pubs have pages with useful info re bands or special offers.

But as a personal social media page, I agree it's dying.

You realise that some of your Facebook friends are sadly deceased?

How you are 'fed' what content there is has changed a lot and a lot of what you're fed is advertising.

Whilst personal use of peoples own feeds is dropping, groups are still growing (despite how hard FB make it to run a group). One of mine is nearly 400K users and likely will hit that by the end of the year if not sooner.

The friends posting has definitely declined and I myself have restricted access to acquaintances too and those I’ve not been in touch with for a long time.

I use the groups facility for a variety of hobbies and they are buzzing. I’m on it several times a day when my hobby groups have activities running. In fact it’s a lifeline for me due to some aspects of my life.

I always thought it was just that, so always said I wasn't interested when people said I should get on-board.

Then just before the first lockdown, I was finding FB quite toxic so, I took a wander over to Insta and it was like a breath of fresh air. I follow style pages, cooking, comedy, celebs (some really engage with their followers on IG), interior design, life coaches, business mentors and I've discovered tons of new places of interest, gigs, restaurants, holiday resorts etc (by way of interesting content not ads!).

If you find content that interests you and like/share that, the algorithm will show you more of that and you can choose to follow or not.

I don't create many posts (it's a bit more technical than FB) but I use IG story feature a lot. It's fun - what social media should be.

My entire feed is adverts, groups I might like, content I might like and nothing from the 300 friends I have.
The time I spend on it is spent trying to get rid of pointless adverts and hiding things.

I loved it, before it became a giant walking advert

Menu > Feeds > Friends
You’re welcome!

It's dying, young people aren't interested, and on my feed it's literally 80% ads or 'suggested posts'...I have hundreds of friends and see about 5 different people posting

Oh, and now I don't see ANY posts from my friends. Not because they don't post, but because it is ALL adds and suggested crap.

I don't really get anything on Insta aside from people showing off. How do you get the useful stuff? It's hard to find people who I might too. Am I doing it wrong?

I use it mainly for the local community stuff so I know what's going on.

That's all I use it for. I still find it very useful for that.

Facebook died for me as soon as our parents discovered it. It was meant to fill the MySpace hole for us where we could actually be our cringey teenage selves. Then our parents came along and started spying and spamming crap Minion memes and misinformation at us😁

I've never been a regular fb poster but have always used it regularly for groups and catching up with friends etc. Recently it has become totally unusable - my feed is mostly random content from groups and pages that I have never actually followed or engaged with (dull mens group anyone?). Some of it is innocuous but I'm also getting lots of conspiracy theory nonsense and loads of AI pictures.
The algorithm is obviously putting stuff that gets a lot of engagement on everyone's feeds but it's crowding out all of the things I actually want to use fb for.
I'd like to get rid of fb entirely but there isn't anything better for flood updates and knowing when the fish and chip van is visiting!

It’s monthly users - people who access their Facebook at least once a month.

So the UK is the biggest using country of Facebook in Europe and is 12th biggest user globally, just ahead of Nigeria and behind Pakistan.

With 3 billion users globally Facebook is still the worlds biggest social media network by a mile - and by extension controls the information consumption of half of the global population 😳

Each "update" makes it less and less pleasant to use. The loss of the "Most recent " default newsfeed was the death knell for me. It keeps showing me events that actually took place 3 days ago. Totally pointless.

I'm still on for some of the specialist groups but I keep in touch with RL friends by WhatsApp groups now.

Maybe this is an age thing. I use it as do all my friends but nobody under 30 seems to much. I presume they are all on instagram which I have never looked at.

I don’t use it to post about my life or anything. My old friends are still there but they don’t post either. I mainly follow pages that interest me on it like lots of baking and cake decorating pages as I do this for fun. I also follow the children’s school pages and use market place so won’t be deleting it but definitely won’t be posting on it .

Hope you are right OP.

I find it almost unusable on the app because of the ads. I use the it on my laptop to check in with local groups.

Too many adverts and too many dodgy relatives/'friends' who don't post but just want to know what's going on, plus some v racist grandparents of friends. My adult children don't use it