They probably went to other social media platforms. Not really a win.
fakebook
Hey remember the metaverse? No, yeah me neither
The Build Strike Exceed Galaxy was a pretty good kit. I painted mine with glow-in-the-dark paints.
How many of those were accounts that Meta closed?
Ya Ive been kicked off 3 times and none of those times did they ever tell me what I posted to cause it, kicking off legitimate users for no reason HAS to be great for business right??
Not enough.
Seriously, how are there still so many people on meta? What percentage are bots is the real question 🤷♂️
Family keeps me from deleting my account but I don’t use it for anything other than messenger and unfortunately marketplace because that’s replaced everything else.
There are parts of the world where the Facebook app basically is the Internet. Places where most people dont own a laptop, but everyone has a cell phone and phone service comes bundled with discounted Facebook data. Their hold goes way beyond social networking to, local businesses and even government services dont have webpages, they have Facebook pages only. Every game people play runs through Facebook, and all their saves are locked up with them. Every video people post or watch runs through Facebook and its hyper localized algorithm. It would take generations to displace them.
Not sure of other countries in the same region (Latin America) but at least in mine, is so fucking annoying that the main source of communication between clients and stores is Facebook. Do you want to order something? Then contact us (specifically from Facebook) or come to the store!
Every one one of my friends and family use it daily.
And a huuuuuge sell is marketplace. Literally no one touches Craigslist anymore. So if you wanna buy used from people, you literally need marketplace.
Which is also fucked, since the likelihood you have a legit transaction is low. The scammers are most active on marketplace.
“Literally no one?” My partner and I just picked up a couch from a couple thru Craiglist, all of us aged around 30 years old. We both love to read the Missed Connections posts on there. I agree that facebook’s marketplace has a good hold on ubiquity at the moment, but nobody “literally” needs it.
literally is one of those words which has really lost it’s meaning. yes I hate it.
Regardless, how badly you want to use fb marketplace is highly regional and situational dependent.
My partner and I have twins who are now almost 3 years old. I would estimate that the stuff we have bought and then later sold on fb marketplace for little or no difference in value would have cost about $6k or $7k per child if we had bought it new. Average full time wage here is about $1k per week, for reference.
There just isn’t another platform which has any significant userbase for toddlers gear here. There is something else you can use for cars or tools, but not toddlers stuff.
Its true that without facebook marketplace we just wouldn’t have bought a lot of the stuff that we did
I was looking for a turntable recently and checked Craigslist religiously for several weeks trying to find a deal. All I saw was the same few overpriced antique stores using posts as advertisements, refreshing over and over to stay on top. What real posts I could find were priced at the same point as the antique stores, probably thinking that was the going rate.
I was barely aware of Facebook Marketplace, but a friend recommended I check there too, and it had a bunch of actual fair deals. While Craigslist rarely had a vintage turntable for less than $300, I was immediately able to find 2 for less than $50 each on Facebook. I felt unclean while re-installing the Facebook app after nearly a decade, but I can’t deny that it’s better, at least for what I was looking for.
I used craigslist just last week, but yea marketplace is a big part of facebooks market reliance
Mad respect to them for not enshittifying.
Craigslist, or Facebook marketplace?
…yet.
I sold my motorcycle 3 years ago and had at least 10 offers on it.
I’ll check CL every so often
IME craigslist is better for auto but everything else seems to be on marketplace
That and free random stuff.
I just wanted to point out that it’s not dead dead (well a lot of traffic died after they took personals off lol )
a lot of you consider facebook + whatsapp + instagram usage covers a large chunk of thr western sphere
I use it for messaging. Boomers are on it heavily and the Portal TV - a truly wondrous device despite the caveat - needs a FB account also.
But reading the scroll? Not so much.
Edit: aw crap. I’m on whatsapp a lot too – I forgot they’re a meta deal. It’s honestly hard to care enough to keep track, some days!
It’s fun being part of that number.
I deleted my Facebook in 2013, before it was cool. 😛
Did you lawyer up and hit the gym?
I deleted mine in 2010, when Stan Marsh showed us how (s014e4). I think it was pretty cool by then already.
Yeah, well, they went on a banning spree, getting rid of anyone and everyone speaking out against Trump, Cuckerburg, and the Nazi regime. Including me.
How in the hell did a company of that size not start teaching DAU until 2019?
That’s a good start.
good :)
So making a platform shitty makes people stop using it?
Who wouldve thought there would be consecuences to the actions!
Probably just tied up with global population decline, or maybe infrastructure failure of ISPs, at this point. Facebook has the digital market super-saturated. Nowhere to go but down.
Isn’t the world population still growing?
It is, but the growth is not uniform around the globe. The population growth is inversely correlated with national development, though. That means the population is growing most in places where Internet access is most out of reach, and population growth is actually already negative and accelerating in many nations with widespread Internet access.
Yes, but primarily in countries with little to no internet.
So not “global population decline”?
Industrialized nations are experiencing significant population decline driven by fertility rates falling below the replacement level of 2.1, caused by increased urbanization, female education, and high costs of living. Over 90 countries face shrinking populations, with major economies like Japan and Italy projected to halve by 2100.
