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Re:Facebook Morale Takes a Tumble Along with Stock Price by HeyLaughingBoy on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @04:11PM (#18453999)
I know the feeling, even though I haven't been on Facebook in years. My 18 year-old met his current girlfriend because she saw him in a parking lot and asked what his Snapchat name was. I don't think he even bothers with FB any more.

The interesting thing to me was that this girl simply expected that he would be on Snapchat. I guess that's where everyone is these days.

Re:Facebook Morale Takes a Tumble Along with Stock Price by 8ytecoder on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @04:28PM (#18454148)
Snapchat is out of fashion already. It's Tik-tok/Musically that's the current fad (or trendy) social media app.
Re:Facebook Morale Takes a Tumble Along with Stock Price by dabockster on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @09:13PM (#18456306)
Tik Tok is Chinese, though. Is there a US version out?
Re:Facebook Morale Takes a Tumble Along with Stock Price by justapassenger on Thursday November 15, 2018 @01:26AM (#18457315)
Yes. Facebook just launched one :)
Re:Facebook Morale Takes a Tumble Along with Stock Price by tprnz on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @06:57PM (#18455483)
Tiktok bought their way to their current position. I bet most of the "best tiktoks" accounts on Facebook/Twitter are owned by themselves. In a matter of months they will die off naturally.
Re:Facebook Morale Takes a Tumble Along with Stock Price by ndnxhs on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @09:32PM (#18456395)
It does seem very artificial. A very boring/obnoxious app that went from nothing to being pushed at me from everywhere.
Re:Facebook Morale Takes a Tumble Along with Stock Price by cm2187 on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @04:28PM (#18454147)
Car parks, quality dating grounds!
Re:Facebook Morale Takes a Tumble Along with Stock Price by metildaa on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @04:35PM (#18454219)
For many Americans, large parking lots/being carbound are facts of life. Half the land area in non-residential zoned properties is required to be parking in many municipalities, which helps to make these areas unfriendly to commute in for any mode, pushing buildings significantly further apart for little benefit.

Cars have been the least worst way to get around these hostile environments for a long time, though I think eBikes are starting to become more popular as they can cut around the horrifyingly bad traffic in many of these places, while not requiring one to join the lycra crowd.

Re:Facebook Morale Takes a Tumble Along with Stock Price by mcv on Thursday November 15, 2018 @04:53AM (#18458094)
Why would you need to join the lycra crowd without an eBike?

I hope they take off, though. Everything I hear about US traffic sounds hopelessly hostile.

Re:Facebook Morale Takes a Tumble Along with Stock Price by idontpost on Thursday November 15, 2018 @12:16PM (#18461136)
> Why would you need to join the lycra crowd without an eBike?

Because you get very sweaty trying to ride a bike any distance in 90 degree weather.

Re:Facebook Morale Takes a Tumble Along with Stock Price by detritus on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @04:38PM (#18454246)
What a strange, cynical comment.

Car parks are a mere part of greater reality - what sense of quality does it imbue that is more or less worthy than any other where perchancing on another is concerned?

Re:Facebook Morale Takes a Tumble Along with Stock Price by itronitron on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @08:45PM (#18456194)
that probably depends a lot on the time of day
Re:Facebook Morale Takes a Tumble Along with Stock Price by vict00ms on Thursday November 15, 2018 @10:41AM (#18460086)
I'm in my early-40s and when I first met my wife in college, we exchanged AIM handles :)