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 🤣).

Local news sites are unbearable though with the number of pop ups and clickbait links. The hosting company is strangling them online.

I started a thread the other day - I’m on FB for groups now (most of my ‘friends’ on there never post and I haven’t for months) but even those groups are now jammed up by that annoying spam that pretends to be local news about lost dogs and missing kids.

I use it to stay in touch with distant family. My FB profile page does not contain my photo and I don't allow colleagues on my FB . People I dislike or people who have caused me problems I find them on FB and block them , this came after a colleague remarked that my FB was well locked down . I immediately removed my photo from my profile .

Just remove as much personal content as possible if you just want to keep this page going

I use facebooks for groups, events and keeping up to date with family, social photos and stuff like that. I tend to use instagram for hobby stuff. I probably prefer insta nowerdays as it’s more anonymous and easier to see only stuff you’re interested in without the endless bloody adverts! I don’t think either of them are going anywhere but the PP is correct, neither of my kids use Facebook at all so maybe it will fizzle out in time.

I deleted twitter, snapchat and TikTok and don’t miss them.

I noticed this too. I scroll but rarely post now

I have heard youngsters say FB is for old people. Everything has its day eventually. Remember Friends Reunited?

I still have one but don't post much. Social media is still alive and well but more generational now. The newer platforms are TikTok / Snap both of which I don't have accounts for. It will evolve and there will be newer forms of social media as time goes on.

For the community groups it's very good. I run a quite successful one. I also use it like a personal photo album. I like looking at the memories that pop up.

The mindless video clips and completely annoying "suggested for you" posts are spoiling it. Some of the suggested posts are actually things I would actively avoid looking at so I'm forever deleting things from my feed.

Facebook needs to go back to basics and cut out the rubbish.

Facebook is totally useless for community events - because of the monetising algorithms you only see the post about the cubscouts doing a BBQ fundraiser in the park 3 days after it happened.

I have a few friends I keep in Comcast via Facebook messenger

And I use it to follow a few groups I'm in but part from that.

I have friends on there but no one really posts anything any more

I'm on it daily, keep in touch with family overseas, friends, ex work colleagues, am in hobby groups, activist groups, social groups....

I've been on it since it first arrived in the uk and you had to have a university email account to access it. The only people we knew on there were our colleagues, so a number of them are still FB friends and it's great to see what they are doing now.

My dc migrated briefly to fb from MySpace, then they all went to instagram 🤷🏼‍♀️

It only does this if you ask it to...

I don't have this issue - but mostly I go to feeds and select friends. I wouldn't class that as 'searching'.

I have no SM at all only MN.
I never got in to it and why would anyone post their life online.
I was onced asked why dont i do online SM i said because most of its fake and tbh id have nothing to talk about when i see people because id have already seen it on line.

Same. And while there are ads and suggested pages I don't feel they overwhelm the 'experience'.

That's a friend problem, not a Facebook one...

Mine logged out when I got a new phone and I never bothered logging back in.

It was 99% advertising, and the same ten people posting relentlessly about stuff I wasn’t interested in.

I think people’s attitudes to sharing have changed. The biggest users I see now are older people (60+) - my age group
(30s) don’t seem to at all.

If they do share it’s the odd pic to quite a small group on instagram.

I once clicked on a royal family story, and then every other post was links to trashy magazines with articles about the royals. Overwhelmed everything else.

Just bizarre.

I use it daily and almost all my friends are regularly on it too. We're at the age our DC are teens and young adults and almost all of them are on there and posting too. I don't see the decline that is often mentioned on here. I do have friends who don't use it but they don't tend to use any social media at all and I keep up with them via text. DD and her friends do use other social media as well but are still active on FB.

I’ve mostly given up on it because when I go on now I don’t see any of my friends’ stuff (despite them having posted if I search their profiles). I could scroll down for an hour and only see ads or weird groups I’m not a member of. It just doesn’t interest me now, I liked Facebook when my feed was posts by my friends.

I was on a year abroad in the US in 2005 so I was an early adopter and prolific user. But the massive part it played in Brexit and Trump started a huge downward spiral for me. I permanently deleted nearly 5 years ago and dont miss it at all.

Yes I think it is dying, I am 39, only people quite a bit older than me seem to be regular users in my circles.

It's interesting, every other post on here is saying it's fab, I use it every day and then every other post is saying it's dying no one ever goes on it!

I post far less often than I once did, it was a novelty I suppose? I love seeing what my friends are up to but less and less of that now. I do like my interest and health groups, they've been invaluable and I've had access to information I would never have been able to 20 years ago.

Yes agreed. I only use it for updates from my youngest child's school. When she leaves in July, I'm never going to use it again. It's redundant as in no-one ever posts.

Definitely op, I’m an author and literally it’s just whatever groups I’m in chatting away, if they weren’t there there’s be nobody posting- I think everyone is on instagram but also trying to get away from screens full stop. I think social media will definitely shrink. Twitters the same, nobody there anymore

I have been an avid user for years but hardly use it now. I mostly get pleasure from seeing Facebook memories pop up and reading the funny posts about things my kids said or did - things I might forget otherwise.

maybe there’s a way to download all my posts and I can do that and delete fb? 🧐