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

submitted 7 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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[-] nobloat@lemmy.ml 24 points 7 months ago

I live in Morocco. I keep leaving Facebook for months but I end up going back there even though I don't like it at all. The reason is that all the people I know and all local content is available only through Facebook. There are hardly any Moroccans on the Fediverse, I've only seen like one other person in all my years of using Mastodon. If I wanna see what's going on in the country, the city and anything related to the region then I am obliged to be on Facebook. I suppose this is the case with most developing and non-english speaking countries.

[-] crazyCat@sh.itjust.works 8 points 7 months ago

Yes definitely the case, I see the same in the Philippines. Other side of the world I know but similar reality. Countries like these where it dominates adds millions upon millions of users.

[-] sleeperdouge@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago

Also from the Philippines and I don't know anybody else that use Fediverse aside from myself. Heck, nobody haven't even heard it and only a couple knows about reddit and discord. Literally everybody uses Facebook for everything and facebook messenger for messaging other people.

[-] bufalo1973@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

Aren't there instances?

[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 months ago

atleast you can know whats happening in Estonia without Facebook (i think)

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