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 🤣).

Facebook died out a long time ago. All the cool kids (like moi 😎) are on Instagram. Personally, I find it a much nicer platform.

I'm normally all over ageism but the kids not wrong is she 😂 there is no 13 year olds begging for Facebook !

I use Facebook a lot, but not in the way I used to. I don't put up photos or statuses often but I find it great for groups for my interests and local area

Same and also found groups for carers and parents for children who have SEN needs like autism. It has been more helpful in many ways than what has been given to me on sheets of paper when my son was diagnosed.

I keep in touch with my family and friends overseas and they post quite regularly compared to me and it’s great to see all their photos and know what is going on in their areas. Several family members and I have had babies in the last year and it has been a nice thing to bond over.

I do use Facebook Marketplace and have gotten free stuff for my daughter instead of buying new baby things that she’ll outgrow in months.

I’m more on Instagram and have learned lots from it. I follow diy, gardening, painting, tapestry weaving, embroidery, cooking, PowerPoint , excel, finance, and learning foreign language amongst other things.

Like most things, it’s how you use it.

It's definitely getting a lot quieter on fb. It may die off eventually. Do you remember how massive Friends Reunited was back in the day? Now that's gone.

I also think the increasing popularity of groups is down to the fact that people know their posts/comments can only be seen by other members of that specific group. And not by all and sundry on FB.

I hope so I can’t stand it. Had pretty much stopped using it but unfortunately there’s some local groups I’ve joined recently and they all use fb a lot.
I’m in my late 30s and I find lots more of my 40+ friends use it but not many of my age or younger use it.

I’m hardly using my account at all now, and would happily delete it if it wasn’t useful for keeping in touch with distant family/local events etc. I have noticed that I am often not shown every post a friend will add at the time they add it, but it will sometimes appear randomly several days later. When I then see their post announcing their pregnancy, for example, I then look like I had been ignoring them for all that time!

Nope! 🤣 My 13 year old DS is definitely not interested in it.
But I remember relatives’ kids dying to join Facebook about 5-10 years ago.

It’s just not the in thing anymore.

My teenager says it’s for ‘old women’ anyway.

I also use it mostly for hobby and local news stuff, especially traffic alerts.

I keep it as I do know a few people who I only keep on contact with on there, actually ‘old women’ 😂. I know a few people who still try and use it as a form of constant showing off, I’ve muted them anyway and I know some others have, so they are playing to an empty room I think.

My teenager says it’s for ‘old women’ anyway.

Good! I’m glad it’s not full of pouty teens and bad eyebrows. My friends feed is generally funny or informative, or both. The occasional annoying person gets snoozed for 30 days at a time.

I think those complaining about it just haven’t worked out how to use it properly!

I think by them pushing content to us and lots of adverts they've killed Facebook. I only want to see what people I know are doing, not a random meme. Even I've stopped posting now because I think what's the point? The only thing that's good about it is the Facebook groups (leaving teaching one is excellent and my community group).

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

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.

Hope you are right OP.

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 .

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.

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.

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 😳

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!

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 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.

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?

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.

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