Facebook Use Has Been Dropping Since the 2016 Election, According to SimilarWeb

Re:Facebook Use Has Been Dropping Since the 2016 Election, A... by perl4ever on Thursday May 17, 2018 @08:30PM (#17097602)

I'm probably one of the rare people who has avoided Facebook for many years and has been using it more recently, so I'm just discovering many things people complain about.

I figured out how to exclude people whose updates tend to be really judgmental or political from my feed without defriending them, but I am still really frustrated by there being no way to keep it chronological. Facebook wants me to read the "top" posts, over and over, apparently, regardless of whether I'm interested or have already read them. And yet, there are many updates that I miss if I don't go to the effort of looking for them.

Most of the value to me is in the messaging function, but there's really nothing special about it compared to all the others that have existed - it's only useful because it's on FB and connected to the people I know that are there.

I find it disturbing when people I don't know ask to be friends, if they don't have any friends in common with me. I can't really understand why FB even allows this as when would they not be bots or scammers?

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Re:Facebook Use Has Been Dropping Since the 2016 Election, A... by busterarm on Thursday May 17, 2018 @08:36PM (#17097639)

Facebook is just the AOL of a younger generation...just global in scale and on a longer timeline.

    People came in droves when it was new and shiny and the easiest route to 'whatever' online.

    At some point folks are only staying around for the messaging platform.

    In some glacially-long (for the internet) pace of time, Facebook will be sunsetted in favor of the new hotness.

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Re:Facebook Use Has Been Dropping Since the 2016 Election, A... by egfx on Thursday May 17, 2018 @08:55PM (#17097726)

I think AOL is a good model of where Facebook is headed. It's happened to MySpace, it's happened to Digg, it's going to happen to Reddit, wtf were they thinking? Strangely enough, the worst site of them all, Twitter, will be the only one left alive as it is.

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Re:Facebook Use Has Been Dropping Since the 2016 Election, A... by ngold on Thursday May 17, 2018 @09:52PM (#17098028)

What cracks me up is reddit turned into blogspot with the redesign. So sad. At least there is still old.reddit for now.

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Re:Facebook Use Has Been Dropping Since the 2016 Election, A... by woah on Friday May 18, 2018 @12:04AM (#17098605)

Twitter is moving in on LinkedIn

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Re:Facebook Use Has Been Dropping Since the 2016 Election, A... by stopnamingnuts on Friday May 18, 2018 @12:32AM (#17098713)

Twitter needs to die just so I can... please, in the name of all that is good and holy... stop being fucking hounded on all other media at 26 second intervals by every Z-list celebrity, podcaster, radio clown, journalist and postal carrier begging me to follow them.

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Re:Facebook Use Has Been Dropping Since the 2016 Election, A... by busterarm on Friday May 18, 2018 @06:11PM (#17105336)

This has been the way people have been getting engagement since advertising started. Twitter is actually the most efficient form of it. It's not going away and it's better than the alternatives.

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Re:Facebook Use Has Been Dropping Since the 2016 Election, A... by dec0dedab0de on Thursday May 17, 2018 @09:59PM (#17098068)

When it's someone you just recently met.

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Re:Facebook Use Has Been Dropping Since the 2016 Election, A... by mygo on Thursday May 17, 2018 @10:11PM (#17098119)

yep I can imagine an alternate reality where you move into a new town and are socially outcast online by a facebook policy where you must have at least one facebook friend in common.

imagine going out of state for college and then not being able to add the hundreds of people you’ve met to your facebook friends list because you’re not already connected on facebook with at least one person in common.

people would just spend more time on another social network, where they can connect.

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Re:Facebook Use Has Been Dropping Since the 2016 Election, A... by marci on Friday May 18, 2018 @08:25AM (#17100823)

IIRC, last I used fb (some years ago), there was an option to only allow requests to be made by friends of friends. Faulty memory or option removed?

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Re:Facebook Use Has Been Dropping Since the 2016 Election, A... by r_c_a_d on Friday May 18, 2018 @10:23AM (#17101681)

No, it is still there. I use it because I am only on Facebook for one group. By having no "friends" I can look at the group without the clutter and no "friend requests".

And, since the group are moving to a WhatsApp group soon, I wont have to use Facebook at all.

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Re:Facebook Use Has Been Dropping Since the 2016 Election, A... by nso95 on Thursday May 17, 2018 @09:13PM (#17097828)

You can just use http://messenger.com. You don’t even need a Facebook account to use it.

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