To think Facebook has had it's day?

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Been wondering this for a while and again today as I scroll through my feed and it's full of adverts, posts from pages I've liked and a few crap memes/inspirational quotes shared by the same handful of people. As always, very little in the way of actual posts from friends.

I joined Facebook over 10 years ago when I had small children - I now have teens, as do the majority of my approx 120 friends. While there was always some crap and attention seeking drama, I used to enjoy seeing people's news and updates. These days, most friends rarely post. I only post, on average, every couple of weeks as I'm now busy working and also don't feel very motivated to as Facebook is so boring! When I do post I usually get a fair amount of likes and comments, so people are clearly still going on there!

I do have Twitter & Instagram accounts but don't really bother with them and have no intention of starting now. Nor am I looking for a new SM platform (DD uses Snapchat - no thanks!).

I'll admit I do sometimes hanker for the days when the internet didn't exist and spare time was spent, reading, watching films, pursuing hobbies, getting stuff done! Maybe I'll go back to that and post ocassional Facebook updates to stay in touch!

My very hip and cool (younger) 18yo brother (13 years younger) says that he and none of his friends use facebook anymore apart from to keep in touch with older relatives (us) and make them think they have a connection to the yoof. Its all about instagram etc now..

I still like it. I dont post that much but I will pop most days to keep up with friends and family. And I am a member of various local groups which is handy too, as they post local news stories. It has its place I think in the social media 'world' - I am on twitter too but dont use it much

pretty much everyone who actually used FB would post a ‘new home’ photo

actually, thinking about it, not really. I can't think of many people who have.
I might have seen pictures of a pile of box, or a post saying "we are in" but I don't know many people actually putting a pic of the house. That would be a bit weird.

Pictures of a house in full mess being redone, maybe, but that's more in a jokey way. I also don't know anyone above the age of 20 who would put a picture of a car just because they just got it!

Planning to delete mine. It makes me annoyed every time I look at it!
I would like to keep messenger though - has anyone done this?

I use it just dor the school page, parents page for DCs year and Neighbourhood watch group. I don't post anything outside those groups, no photos or anything.

We have a family WhatsApp group for photos , and I do have messenger for voluntary groups.

I'm not getting all pious about social media, as I use this and another sports forum way too much .

As a society, we definitely should restrict our social media use I think.

I think having instant internet on your phone has been the killer.

I use it a lot. I am on a few groups e.g. Mums with kids born in March 1999 (we migrated from a yahoo group years ago) and Mum with kids born March 2009, my running club.

My work has introduced me to very many people who either live abroad or I met here and then moved abroad, so it's a lovely way to keep up with them.

Overseas family.

I just hide the ads or the people that post every single workout.

I'm late 40s. My 20 year old son barely uses it.

I still like it. It really depends on how you use it imho. Same for instagram and Twitter.
I have my friends and family who are in a different countries, follow only few things which interest me and am happy for my friends when thay achieved something and share it.
I don't follow any cleaning or "perfect home" profiles. Gardening, art, some fun ones, local business and am mamber of local groups where they are talking about what is happening with regeneration and such. Oh and local history which is sometimes really interesting.
No depression from it, nothing annoying and I scroll past the ads (it's free so they have to make revenue somehow).

I don't have FB on my phone which works well for me.

Its all about instagram etc now

Insta is owned by facebook and they are merging apps at the end of the year along with Whatsapp.

I deactivated my account for a year but had to go back on it as I needed to access the page for my children's school. I was missing updates and lost property shout outs. I only check it twice a week. It's full of adverts and videos. Utter crap. I would prefer to delete my account completley, as I'm worried about breach of data.

I agree, I hardly ever look at it anymore.

It depends watching use it for, my son is disabled and there are lots of groups that i used for support, nowadays I use it to.get information about various local disability groups, my older son school.has a Facebook group,that posts various bits of school news etc .

I would prefer to delete my account completley, as I'm worried about breach of data.

if you don't put anything on it, you have nothing to worry about.

YANBU, I was never a big fan. I loved MySpace back in the day and spent literally hours on HTML codes to make my profile look fancy . Facebook seemed to take over around 2008 so I got it but I never really liked it and deleted it entirely in 2011.

I think it’s naff personally, huge Instagram fan.

The actual fb part is meh these days. I will look at a few hobby groups at times. Use messenger to communicate with family. Sometimes use the sales groups. That's it.

For the people who don't use it anymore, how do you sell things or have hobby groups?

whataspp you have to already know the people which excludes meeting new people.
instagram I guess it's ok.

pintarest love looking at things

I think if you use it right, social media is a blessing. People forget how hard it was to be separated from family and friends in the past, how you had to wait days even weeks to get letters from abroad, how you were stuck in an office because you had to be there to work. It's making life so much easier.

I think the way to use FB has changed a lot. I don't really do much on my "wall" any more, but I am a member of lots of FB groups on subjects I am interested in (sewing, cooking, etc), and they are hugely useful and enjoyable. But it is more like being in an online forum than traditional FB in a lot of ways.

I still love it, use it for all sorts of different things and I don't think the adverts are as bad as the ones on this site!

I think it’s naff personally, huge Instagram fan

They’re basically the same thing, surely!

Yanbu, it's dead. Deleted it ages ago and never looked back - what a waste of life! You can messenger/call/text/write/speak to your actual friends! SMs only use for me is to find out about events.

Full of fake people who take selfies and then filter the pics to make themselves look 3 stone lighter and with flawless complexions. It’s a joke.

Insta is owned by facebook and they are merging apps at the end of the year along with Whatsapp.

They're merging messenger, not the core apps.

Still got it - but yes, it seems a bit slow on there

Things change, the novelty wore off - people don't see the need to check in or brag about everything online now. In time a new craze will emerge of course and Facebook will remain popular but the obsession is over

The newsfeed part of facebook is well past it's prime, especially due to all of the adverts, 'recommended videos/posts,' all the stupid memes and fake news posts that your less interesting/insanely gullible FB friends post. I still post on it occasionally and do a quick scroll through as about 1/3 or 1/4 of my newsfeed is still stuff from friends/family that I want to see. Important announcements, updates on their lives, happy shots of them having fun or enjoying a new hobby, etc. All the stuff that FB originally was.

However where FB still has it's draw is in the groups. It's amazing for connecting with people both locally and around the country and even world who have similar interests. Breastfeeding groups, parenting groups, sports and hobby groups, neighbourhood groups, campaigning groups. I've made good friends in the real world through Facebook and have made some nice connections through parenting/sports/hobby groups around the world. Sometimes when I travel to an event I get to meet people who I've been chatting to for years online and it's lovely. Or if I travel to a different city I can go to a meet-up of a hobby group and be welcomed by the people I've met through Facebook. It's an amazing tool for connecting people and getting to share interests with an unlimited number or people.

So if you just use Facebook for newsfeed and staying in touch with people you already know, then yup. It seems to be on the way out. But if you are using groups, then it's clear that there is still an awful lot of life left in it.