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by matsemann 780 days ago
It's so weird to me. My Facebook feed is dead, no one posts anymore. The last weeks they spam me with notifications about nothing to get me back in and creating fake engagement. "Peter you added as a friend in high school but have never spoken to since or ever interacted with on the platform commented on a meme page, check it out".
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Facebook is just groups and marketplace, sprinkled with some ads, at least for my age group and area. But groups are very active, especially neighbourhood ones, where I get my hyper local news basically.
Facebook DAU continues to grow:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/346167/facebook-global-d...

Their engaged audience is skewing older which is why it "feels" weird to you but not to everyone.

America is 4% of the world. FB is the internet in many countries.
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I stopped looking at facebook a month or two ago because it suddenly became 99% spam "suggestions" from people I've never heard of before. Complete turn off. I might peek once in a while to see if it's been unfucked, but I have zero interest until it is.
blue app is dead mostly. But instagram is def not!
For when people are so stupid that reading is hard and they need pictures . . .
the facebook feed is also mostly pictures and memes so not sure how that's any different
True, the apps are all basically converging.