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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 days ago

Sadly Elon Musk remains a threat to us all.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone -2 points 5 days ago (3 children)

it's why politicians want to ban it

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[–] pmc@lemmy.blahaj.zone 242 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I think teens abandoned Facebook like 10 years ago

[–] protist@mander.xyz 94 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Surely longer ago than that? Facebook hasn't been cool for probably over 15 years

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 33 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Has FB been cool since they got rid of signups limited by .edu email addresses?

[–] protist@mander.xyz 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

the feed sorted by “new,”

Yeah, and it went from "let's just add some stuff" to outright "we will force feed you this slop and you will like it" from there. It felt like you were a goose being prepped for Christmas' foie gras.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

That's when it was cool to teens who didn't have .edu emails addresses (but not long after).

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[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 94 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Because Whatsapp is totally not owned by FB.

[–] lemmylommy@lemmy.world 72 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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???

[–] NutsGate@feddit.nl 30 points 1 week ago

I'm 39 so I am slightly more rizz than you. I maintain my levels of brat by regularly updating my skibidi vocab.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

Yo, your lexicon is making my malarkey happy

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[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

That's about phone number requirement for signup. Not about platforms.

OK. Life is life.

I've just had a traumatic memory of one young person, a girl (with possibly undiagnosed ASPD), from 13 years ago.

Feel nausea and want to throw up every time thinking about that kind of places, dynamics, emotions.

[–] DemBoSain@midwest.social 87 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Where there any teens on Twitter? Last I was there it was full of angry middle-age men.

[–] urheber@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 1 week ago

before musk came it was pretty full, most of them have moved to threads

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago

Ah, the curse of algorithmic social network. It’s full of angry middle-aged men if you follow those / interact with them. There are / were big communities formed around various pop stars on Twitter and those are quite different demographics.

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[–] michael_palmer@lemmy.sdf.org 51 points 1 week ago (4 children)

It's pretty clear. Facebook is now full of crap created by artificial intelligence (and not only).

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[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 47 points 1 week ago

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+.

[–] chr@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 week ago (2 children)

A decade ago is when teens stopped using Facebook, unless they're counting Instagram in those metrics?

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Look at the graph in the article: it’s the only newsworthy piece. Assuming the numbers are legit, the lines crossed about 6 years ago.

Of course the x axis not having any labeled points there doesn’t fill me with confidence. Perhaps it’s just two points for each and they drew a straight line

[–] urheber@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 week ago

then they would have to count WhatsApp too...

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Okay? But what does Whatsapp has anything to do with the other? DM?

I don't consider WhatsApp social media.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

WhatsApp has channels (public feeds centered around topics, a bit like microblogging), communities (groups about a subject, much like Facebook Groups), and updates (temporal video/photo statuses to share with your friends). You might only use it for DM, but it has much bigger aspirations.

[–] confusedwiseman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Ok, I feel old. The only reason facebook has any relevance to me is the market place. What’s the best alternative?

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 20 points 1 week ago

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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[–] obinice@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (7 children)

WhatsApp? The instant messenger boomers use on their phones?

Damn, who saw that coming.

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 34 points 1 week ago

american, right? It's very popular in other places.

[–] cestvrai@lemm.ee 26 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Most countries stopped using SMS ages ago. WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram are ubiquitous.

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[–] aarRJaay@lemm.ee 20 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Spotted the iMessage user who routinly cries about dot colour

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[–] skymtf@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 week ago

well Facebook still owns them and will own them when they all switch to instagram reels like America wants them to do

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz -5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Isn't whatsapp for old people? Drag uses Discord instead. It's not great, but at least it doesn't hack your phone.

As much as I dislike Whatsapp and love Discord. Private messages in Whatsapp are encrypted while Discord messages are entirely collected

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