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 reached a milestone of 3 billion monthly active users by the end of last year, and its user base continues to expand.

It seems that you may no longer align with the primary audience. Facebook's largest user demographic is aged 25-34 years, so if most of your friends fall outside that range, it could explain the decrease in activity.

I think it has become a place for groups rather than a way of keeping up social contact

I love it as a quick and easy way to remember so many moments of my kids lives, as you mentioned, the memories coming up are lovely, and it's pretty easy to find things too if you use albums.

We have a lot of family abroad so it's lovely for them to see the kids too and vice versa.

I also like the scrapbook feature so my kids will have a copy of all their photos, I sort of imagine them showing their own kids one day as I am sure life will be very different then!

So I do it mostly for me. A little like a diary or my kids growing up. So I would keep it up regardless of if everyone else stopped lol.

I personally have found the opposite though. Lots of our friends moved to Instagram and Snapchat a few years ago, I guess it was a trendy craze lol. But most have come back now!

Yes. Its all tiktok & insta now

I suspect that people have matured and just don’t feel the need to brag about their latest car, or share pictures of them eating out… think as we get older we prefer our private lives to be private…. I don’t post anymore but still use it for the groups I’ve joined. Rarely if ever do I look at friends pages, and I certainly don’t have hundreds of friends on there… I only have friends on there that I’m actually friends with in real life. Took loads of old school friends off that I haven’t spoken to since school, some 30 years ago…. We have a separate school page for that where more generic stuff is shared.

I use Facebook for Groups. I belong to about 30 groups. Some are local area groups, some are support groups for health conditions, some are special interest groups. Unless my Facebook friends are in the same groups as I am, then they won't see any of my posts, so it might look to them as though I'm no longer active on Facebook because I don't tend to post stuff onto my own wall.

Messaging friends and family is still the top activity on Facebook. According to data

"Over 72% of users say they use Facebook to message friends and family. This suggests that the platform’s “social” factor is still alive and kicking. Other popular activities on the platform are posting/sharing photos and videos (63.5%) and keeping up to date with news and events (58.7%).
A significant number of users (54.3%) follow and research brands and products on Facebook. So although it’s mostly for social, your brand can still use the platform to build authentic connections."

I think people are getting tired of FB not doing anything about scammers and fake pages. And the number of completely irrelevant ads or pages I should follow means I can barely see what my friends ARE posting. If I go on their pages I can see they are posting things but FB just doesn't bother to share things with you.

I hardly use Facebook now, I used to use it more as my DC posted photos of their children on it, but now they use other social media instead so there is little point in looking at it.

I haven't posted on my personal feed far years. I would come off FB altogether but the specific medical community groups I am a member of are really useful & helpful.

The advertising is really annoying along with random pages I am encouraged to follow.

I expect this will get worse coming up to GE time.

Not on Twitter/X or instagram.

Was on NextDoor until I got fed up with the same moaners whinging on about people with 'ugly curtains' or dogs weeing on the pavement 🙄

Facebook died as a social media platform 8 years ago once instagram and snapchat (and later tik tok) took over

Do you mean personally? Because, generally that statement is completely untrue:

I’d say it’s more popular with a certain demographic, mainly Boomers and Gen X as regular users. I only use it for groups and to contact businesses. I only post on my timeline once or twice a year, and even then it’s only sharing someone else’s post. I’ve not posted anything original for years.