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by ncruces 302 days ago
No, it didn't fail.

Circles is group chats (WhatsApp, or whatever's popular in your neck of the woods), which I'd argue is how (most?) people in 2025 actually do “social networking.”

Instagram/TikTok/Xitter is… something else entirely.
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ipaddr 302 days ago
Chat programs are not social networking.
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Ar-Curunir 302 days ago
They absolutely are. Maybe less so in the USA, but they have replaced Facebook for many (most?) people in the subcontinent, Africa, and south america
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ncruces 302 days ago
Exactly. Europe too.

It's how people talk to groups of dozens of people at a time: friends, neighbors, acquaintances, the parents of your kid's school mates to discuss school stuff or to setup a birthday party… coworkers if you include more work oriented chat apps.

I have dozens of such groups, some with photos of kids around a birthday cake that I'd never have put up of Facebook (if I still used it).

If that's not social networking, I'm not sure what is.

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