To think facebook is dying out?

[Middleagednbored]

Been on it for years, have a couple of hundred friends on there. Over the past few years, I've noticed that only a handful post regularly now, the rest post rarely, if ever. I've realised some haven't posted for years! There are a few who until a year or so ago posted regularly and I liked keeping up with their lives but now seem to have stopped. I have definitely cut down on my posts too. A year ago, I would average twice a week, now it's twice a month if that. What's the point if no one is reading? I do actually like seeing the memories come up and how people I don't see much anymore are getting on but these days it's so boring. Mostly ads. I'm in a few groups (hobbies, interests, local community) which are useful but otherwise it's so dead!

Do we think Facebook will fizzle put altogether over the next few years? I don't do Instagram or twitter and don't understand tik tok etc (too old 🤣).

Yes I use it much less now, I do use Instagram and Tiktok too, but still like Facebook. Mine is always full of posts so not noticed it’s going to die out, but people do use other socials more these days

Me and my friends still use it a lot.

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

I rarely post because I'm so bored of self-obsessed people detailing their whole lives that I no longer want to share anything either!

It will probably die out and be replaced with something else eventually.

I could have written your post. I also find the adds really overwhelming. Am not on Twitter or insta either

Users are declining in the UK while percentage of your feed which is ads and “recommended content” (often targeted posts for your profile) has increased.

However users in many other countries are rising. In many low income countries Facebook IS the internet - because Meta cut a deal with their government to provide the app without data costs.

I do begrudge the amount of businesses who’ve inadvertently made Facebook their only interface for customers. I don’t use it.

I don’t use Facebook at all for friends and family. But I do use it heavily for some information and support groups I am in. There are always lots of people posting on those.

It's for business and social groups so it will have its place but people putting their lives on there is on the decline.

Yes its a thing of the past, my children use it out of sympathy for their old mum 😂 Its mostly over 40s ime that post regularly it will eventually fizzle away.

I have an anonymous skeleton account for things like school, local, club and business pages I follow.

No friends. It's all it's good for these days

I used to use FB quite a lot, posted sometimes but commented and reacted to friends and family's posts often. I see less and less content from the people I used to notice regularly so I'm spending less time on it. On the other hand I'm in contact with the same people and receiving news from them on the family Whatsapp group etc.

It’s the amount of adverts and suggested pages for me. I can scroll for ages and it’s just crap upon advert upon crap.

I post a lot less. I used to like broadcasting to the world when I was younger. Now I might post a family photo once a month at most.

I'm the right age to use it so I like it. But I'm aware it's very old fashioned. I'm gearing myself up to change. But I thought if I'm going thru the effort I might wait for the next "thing" and ride at the front 😂😂

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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 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.