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Why is Facebook still so insanely popular? (midwest.social)

submitted 8 months ago by jeze64@midwest.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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I read "it's dying" by people on Discord and Reddit all the time, but the numbers prove otherwise. It's been going up this entire time and sitting over 3 billion MONTHLY ACTIVE USERS!

I feel like the bubble around people on other platforms saying "who uses Facebook anymore lol" is kind of wild given the numbers. Keep in mind these are active users not just abandoned accounts.

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[-] summerof69@lemm.ee 24 points 8 months ago

People don't use Facebook, hence you find them on other platforms. They may be thinking that if they don't use it, then nobody does.

But you also have to consider where these people live. It might be "dying" there, while Facebook is getting new users in other markets. I remember watching a video about genocide in Myanmar and the role that Facebook played. Access to Facebook was free if I recall correctly, it was the internet for most people.

It'd be interesting to see data by country.

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 8 months ago

It still boggles me that there still isn't a good popular plarform to look for events near me like facebook. Why doesnt imstagram instagram have this? Or even WhatsApp, that would be so much more useful that the crap stories they added, who cares about that?

[-] aidan@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Well there's meetup

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yeah but it always left so awkward. People have to sign up for it just for the events, and for that there's plenty of services. I mean having a service where your friends already are also have a list of events. The "in going" feature on Facebook was genius for that.

[-] aidan@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I sometimes think of myself as tech literate, then I realize I have absolutely no clue how to navigate Facebook, Twitter, or Facebook, no clue how to find a specific thing I'm looking for, or to get a post noticed by people.

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