To think Facebook has dropped off a cliff lately?

[Onthemoooove]

Usage has been declining for a while but I've noticed this year hardly any of my friends post anymore, even the most prolific ones have cut right down. This has resulted in me hardly bothering anymore - what's the point if noone's reading? I've only posted twice since Christmas and the thought of doing so almost makes me cringe.Really not a bad thing imo. However, the groups are still very active so I'll keep it for them, I really like how most of them will let you post using a nickname now which I really like for privacy....

@Onthemoooove

I have to regrettably agree. I have around 75 'friends' and around 55 of them I know in real life, (they are friends, family, and neighbours, and several work colleagues.) The other 20 are people who used to be penpals, or people I met on games I was playing a few years ago - like Farmville.

When I post, (pics usually) I get between 18 and 23 'likes.' So over 50 people are not commenting or liking - or probably not noticing as they are not on there often. I got 30 happy birthday comments/greetings for my last birthday. So around 45 people didn't acknowledge it. Then again, I only acknowledge about 25 to 30 peoples birthdays during the course of the year...

I do have a few people in my neighbourhood who post every day, and they post photos of their kids and grandkids, and how wonderful and special and clever they are, and to be be honest, it's been getting on my nerves, so I have recently 'unfollowed' them (not unfriended,) so their bloody posts stop coming up on my timeline.

The grandparent ones are the worst. Several women on there post every single bloody bastard day about their grandchildren, (put at least one or two pics of them up nearly every day too, and I'm not sure how I feel about that.) They even post that they wish they'd had the grandchildren first/before their children etc, and strongly hint they prefer their grandchildren to their actual children.

Of course you do. You're not responsible for them, and you only see them when they visit, and look after them for a few hours at a time. Stupid fucking comment that is - honestly! 🙄

The grandkid bores are the most tedious IMO. Worse than the parents crowing about their kids!

I also get sick of the shit adverts - and spam. 'You'll never believe what has happened to Martin Lewis!' And 'it's so sad what Gordon Ramsay has come to...' If you click on the articles, it's spambots, and the 'news' is fake.

I keep Facebook though, for contact with people who live far away, and I enjoy communicating with about 2 dozen people on there. Plus I have 18-19 years of memories and photos on there. (Many of them from when my kids were young, including day trips, holidays, family events, special events/life events. So I'm not deleting Facebook.

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They are posting op, but FB is more interested in showing you ads and recently posts by "influencers" disguised as real people, that it's killing the golden goose. Like friends reunited, my space etc it will fall off a cliff and we'll switch to something else.

DDs dance school runs their entire business (badly) via fb groups. It’s the only reason I visit these days.

I joined back when everyone had “walls”. 🤣

I agree. Everyone I know is posting on Facebook less and less. They are slowly destroying their own product. I can’t quite work out how this is financially viable but there we are.

your ageism is showing

I still see people, posting everyday, craving attention.

I finally deleted my account a few months ago. My feed was full of uninteresting advertisements, or pages that I have no intention of following. I sent a message to all of the relevant people, so we have moved our chats to WhatsApp instead... no advertisements, and just chatting and seeing important pictures and videos!

A few people that I know only have it for community groups, e.g. to see if it's their sheep that have escaped.

Clubs and interest groups use facebook because it's free, setting up and maintaining a website costs and a lot of groups have no need for one. The software and hosting used by this site costs a lot and is being attacked by hackers all the time.

It’s just about addictive ‘reels’ now,

Complaining that nobody posts on Facebook, whilst saying you don’t post on Facebook any more. 🤷‍♀️

It’s useful for local stuff, our town group is very good but nobody I know uses it for personal stuff

Im 39 and only use it for local and interest groups, which its absolutely invaluable for. Id say most people are the same. Im in a hugely active and popular group for women in my city and the vast majority of posts are from women in their 20s so its not a generational thing.
Nobody posts to their wall anymore though thats the thing.
I dont have instagram or tiktok and reckon I will have completely bypassed that trend as I can kinda feel thats coming to an end.
Im considering rejigging my FB profile so the algorithm thinks im an old man so I stop getting so many targeted ads and reels

Yeh and that’s fine but a decent restaurant should have their own website with menus and an availability to book. Not a Facebook page where you need an account to view it

It does seem to be very much weighted towards so-called “news” stories, adverts and so on, and very little in terms of posts from actual friends / acquaintances. Commercial stuff rather than seeing people you know.

But I’d say the same re Instagram.

I’ve come off SM for a couple of months and it’s been very nice.

Yeah something odd is going on, i have a lot of dog owner friends and am very much in the dog world. In previous years whenever crufts was on I’d see many friends posting statuses about it, conversations going on about it etc etc - whenever I posted about it I’d get a number of “reacts” and a conversation would normally occur on my comment.

I posted yesterday about crufts after realising id not seen anyone mention it … tumbleweeds followed - not one react, no comments.

I thought I’d just suddenly become deeply unpopular 😂

I just watch reels on it now

Kind of a hub for racists and the occasional local neighbourhood post

For me my use peaked in the pandemic - used it to stay in touch with a lot of people. It seems to have fallen over badly for person-to-person contact since. Like someone above said, you don't get notifications of events until three days later, and on the rare occasion friends do post, it takes best part of a week to show up.

I use it for 'memories', photo dump and to keep up with local stuff. I absolutely don't waste hours watching slime scooping, Garron Noone, Liam Peyton, Dylan B Hollis...etc.

Have just got into Insta but haven't built up many people yet. It seems fun tho. (Goddess Boys, anyone?) Bluesky is interesting for US news and ranting.

Can’t believe people still use it tbh. However lots argue they don’t post for others but to have a scrapbook of memories etc so presumably they still use it.

I stopped using instagram years ago too as just adverts.

I use it for local community information, school info, community groups for places i am going on holiday (for ideas ) hobby and health issue groups... not really for keeping up with friends or families lives anymore and I dont generally use other platforms for that either

Yes I use it to keep up with local news.

Otherwise it's full of cringeworthy positive attitude quotes, period pants adverts and Reform bots.

I used to see loads of my friends posting about the rugby but this 6 nations there's absolutely no posts. There have been some great matches this year too.

I want to quit it but I find it really useful for local information from the groups and for advice on my interests and hobbies. It's about the only thing it's good for. I never post and don't read other people's posts in their pages.

Hardly anyone I know posts on there now. There’s the seldom happy birthday posts and the local notice boards have regular postings but other than that it’s full of posts and pages I don’t even follow. My newsfeed is full of menopause remedies and I’m so sick to death of seeing Ian Huntley and Anthony Russell’s faces all over my news feed at the moment.