Teens are on Facebook?
this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2024
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How else you gonna cyber bully the transfer student
Gee I wish they had just left Facebook as a way to share photos and updates with friends and family, instead of turning it into a viral content clusterfuck to capture the youth audience. It didn’t even work.
Marketplace function is their future IMHO
Craigslist eventually got rid of personals, give it a decade
No teens on blue sky, nice
I had to block a few ones on Bluesky.
Gyna
it's why politicians want to ban it
They’ve been trying to ban it for awhile now, so no. They want to ban it because they can’t directly control the companies that own those platforms overseas whereas Facebook, IG, etc. are very much able to be controlled if necessary by those in power
It's a delicate topic. TikTok collects a ton of data from devices and infers a ton of data from watching patterns. This is really true of most of the modern web apps, but especially true of TikTok because the short-form means more content to churn through, and the algorithm is practically an IV drip of dopamine.
The much, much more important issues are user privacy and truth-in-media, and is something that just as well needs to be pointed at Meta and Twitter and Reddit and Google. TikTok is probably more critical at the present moment, because it's run by a country our president-elect wants to start a trade-war with, and they've got quite an upper hand with all the data that we, the users, give them for free, via a propaganda machine under their control.
Proper analysis.
People really underestimate the state corpo connections when looking at their own regime and domestic corpos. Since these are "our" guys
I think teens abandoned Facebook like 10 years ago
Teens stopped using Facebook in 2015.
Surely longer ago than that? Facebook hasn't been cool for probably over 15 years
Has FB been cool since they got rid of signups limited by .edu email addresses?
You had a good year or two after that and then it went to shit.
That was basically the end. When it was only friends and the feed sorted by "new,", it was super fun. When my aunts started joining it became much less fun.
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Because Whatsapp is totally not owned by FB.
It’s not about why owns it. It’s about where young people can be without getting bothered by their parents and other old people.
I'm 41.....you telling me the kids today don't think of me as the greatest person who ever existed??? Pssshhh that's malarkey! I won't hear of it! EVERYONE thinks I'm the greatest person who ever existed! My lexicon includes words like "malarkey" and "lexicon"! Kids think that's cool right???
I'm 39 so I am slightly more rizz than you. I maintain my levels of brat by regularly updating my skibidi vocab.
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Where there any teens on Twitter? Last I was there it was full of angry middle-age men.
The Internet- where men are men...
Men? Wait, yall aren't dogs using the internet while the humans are away at work?
Yall are dogs to right?
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It's pretty clear. Facebook is now full of crap created by artificial intelligence (and not only).
463k people actually liked that photo?
It's a video
That's even worse
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That is a weird way of describing it. Teens aren't "abandoning" FB & X; they never signed up to begin with. And why would that? They are platforms built for and filled with millennials+.
A decade ago is when teens stopped using Facebook, unless they're counting Instagram in those metrics?
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Ok, I feel old. The only reason facebook has any relevance to me is the market place. What’s the best alternative?
That's just it, Facebook is kinda the default option, and almost everyone has an account there. It's why so many clubs arrange everything through a Facebook page.
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Okay? But what does Whatsapp has anything to do with the other? DM?
I don't consider WhatsApp social media.
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