Declining? Ten years ago all my Facebook friends were posting things, breakfast pictures, personal updates, trip pictures, commenting on each other posts. Nowadays my feed is Ads, suggested content by people I do not know and a guy that shares news links. In my experience declining is an understatement.
In my experience, it replaced Craigslist. Now that Craigslist charges for listing items, why not use Facebook where listing items is free and you can at least vet the persons profile before going to meet up with them?
In my area at least, nextdoor.com is really good for posting and finding items as well. Plus you know they're nearby and you're not having to drive super far to get an item. I found some awesome free patio chairs through nextdoor.
Even worse, if you Google my name, the first hit is an empty Facebook page. I don't want to have anything to do with Facebook and I never used any of their products. So somebody (or Facebook themselves) made an account in my name.
There is no way to get rid of it, there is a form where you have to fill in all your personal details and upload a photo ID, but it fails to submit, with "unknown error". Tried several browsers.
The fact that their user base is shrinking, that an anonymous 11 year-old was quoted in the WSJ as saying, "Facebook is for old people" is the real story.
>>"...The company has also hidden the extent to which content production per user has been in long-term decline"
IOW, they still count as "active users" people who have abandoned the platform except for occasionally checking on other contacts there. Which means that FB are at real risk of a vicious cycle tipping-point as users disengage, notice less activity in their circle, disengage, and pretty soon everyone either notices that nothing is happening, or doesn't notice and just stops checking in...
A 12-year-old told me that (to my surprise) in 2012. She said that her friends used Facebook the way my generation used e-mail -- as a means of formal communication, often with older relatives.
At the time, their generation's only social media were Instagram and Snapchat, which I suppose hasn't changed that much. I know people their age and younger are still pretty reliant on Instagram DMs and Snapchat as an alternative to SMS.
This pretty accurately reflects what I've seen among my friend group. Most rarely post. Of the few that do, most are solid left leaning folks who serve up a mixture of memes that are pretty similar to NPR. Aside from their posts which -- I kid you not-- occasionally add some anti-Trump memes for nostalgia, there's nothing else in my feed.
As much as I enjoy this, it's so sad because I miss the other friends.
> Facebook CFO David Wehner seemed to contradict Zuckerberg in that same call, acknowledging that "the Facebook MAU number does count multiple accounts for a single user when such accounts exist, and we estimate those represent approximately 10 percent of our Facebook MAUs as previously disclosed in the limitation of key metrics section in our SEC filings."
What in the actual fuck?!? 10% of Facebook’s nearly 3 billion users have more than one account?
I’d be more inclined to believe there are 300m or more fake accounts, but I have to believe these are troll farms.
Some real people, I guess, have more than one account, or an account that isn't under their real name, because they want to interact with friends separately from family or something like that.
I vaguely thought that the TOS required your real name, but it doesn't appear that is enforced.
Declining? Ten years ago all my Facebook friends were posting things, breakfast pictures, personal updates, trip pictures, commenting on each other posts. Nowadays my feed is Ads, suggested content by people I do not know and a guy that shares news links. In my experience declining is an understatement.