To think facebook is dying out?

I joined early and left - completely deleted my account - early, about 5 years ago if not longer. I just felt it had a negative effect on me. I use instagram to look at things I’m interested in but I don’t use social media to follow family or friends at all. If I want to hear updates on people’s lives I’d prefer to learn about them in the real world. Getting rid of it has been entirely positive for me.

It’s definitely dying out - and has been for years.

I use it for groups which are really useful to me

I still use it quite a bit but yes I think it's on the way out, it seems to be the over 40s using it now, the younger generation use snapchat, tik tok etc, my 17 year old wouldn't be seen dead on it

I use it daily. I have plenty of friends who use it as their main social media so I see plenty of updates. And I'm on some very active groups.

I agree ,mumsnet has been saying for years it's on a decline ,and on every thread there will be posters declaring they deleted it years ago and haven't missed it
Yet its still here ,I think the demographics of who it appeals to have changed
My 17 year old has never had an account
But it adapts, and is still popular.

I agree it's dying out- I'm sick of all the adverts and page suggestions for me that are so obscure or nothing that i would be interested in! I like looking back at the photo memories and I use it to see photos of my friend living in Oz. I think people don't like to splash their lives over it like they once did.

Too many adverts and my actual friends rarely post anymore. If it wasn't for the fact that's it's the main way for me to keep up with local community issues and events I'd remove the app and forget about it completely.

I still use FB for support groups that aren't available elsewhere. No ads here, I installed FB Purity, well worth having!

https://www.fbpurity.com/

I’m sick of the ads and targeted content on both FB and Insta, especially when it shows me them more than the accounts I actually follow.

I don’t know many people who bother with FB any more, it feels very dated and younger people seem to use other platforms. The ones still using FB are mostly those who like to share every boring detail of their lives and rant a lot.

It’s handy for groups but I never think to post any more.

I actually never use SM to keep up with friends or post about my own life. I use IG for my business and FB for hobby groups. It all seems business as usual to me.

I’m like you. I do use it but it seems full of adverts rather than personal posts

the youth have all gone to Instagram (can’t stand it) or tic toc

i do like Twitter too but that’s a different beast, I follow randoms on there not my own own friends. I never have anything to say but like reading what others do.

I use it for the groups. I'm in a couple of groups about the place we're going on holiday and have learnt loads. Very useful.

Yanbu. Mine is overrun with irrelevant groups it thinks I might like.
As lovely as they are I'm not interested in the running group twenty miles away or news for a town I've never visited in the next county.

I only have real friends on it because I want to keep up with them and see their updates.

But the algorithms now mean I don't. I see jokes, travel pages, reels. Not my friends posts which I have to search for.

I used to look at it a few times a day. Now maybe once a week. Its just not what it used to be.

I use it daily and so do the majority of my friends and family.

I also have an active business page on there and it gets a lot of interaction and messages on a regular basis.

I really don't recognise what MN says about Facebook being on the decline or being overrun with rubbish.

I left Facebook (properly deleted all my data etc, not just deactivated) over five years ago. I felt even back then that it was dying out; all the people In interested in don’t post and all the people I’m not interested in do 😂. I can categorically say that I’ve not missed it one bit. I used to be quite a prolific user at one point too.

The suggested pages are getting ridiculous now. It's at least 60% of my content plus ads!

I deleted FB and only use Instagram now. When you post on Insta, it copies over that post to FB too.

I ditched it in 2020 and honestly haven't missed it. I had it since near the very beginning and would post then daily (banal stuff that made me cringe looking at the memories!). By the end I wasn't really posting at all -maybe once every few months. It just seemed pointless. It's definitely on the decline, I don't know any young person (as in under 21) who has it.

I stopped using FB after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and the way that meta repeated lied about continuing selling contacts.

It's almost impossible to avoid What's App, I wish I could.

I use it daily and have lots of posts from friends and family which I love seeing. I mostly use it for community activities though. We got a very active country wide group which every mum seems to be on...it's amazing supportive group which can answer most questions, it's safe too, no bullying. Admin is great to make it safe due to some rules. Abit like mn but local.

When people say they still use it for local and community news though it reminds me how deeply angry I am with Meta for
putting local newspapers out of business. They’ve done this in the Uk and across the world.

They now control how we learn about our communities - and monetise it.

The Uk still ranks quite high (biggest customer base for the app in Europe) in terms of countries with most Facebook users. Via statistica

I'm in a few groups I post mainly on there. I have Instagram but its for following people I don't post anything.