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Re:Poll: Which FAANG is the most likely to decline in the ye... by captainmuon on Monday January 03, 2022 @04:52PM (#29787487)
Facebook is for old people now. I organized an event for new students at the university and we had a discussion in the team whether we should advertize on FB or whether it would even be a hindrance because FB is not cool. We then agreed to post it there after all because people expect "serious" information such as dates of university events on Facebook.

I don't post regularly on Facebook, because my old FB friends are not very active. I'm in the age (late 30s) where you don't meet so many new people, and if you do it is no longer appropriate to add them on FB. So it is effectively dead for me. I communicate with one person via FB messenger and post uni events there. On Whatsapp, I communicate with my family and some coworkers. Everyone else is on Signal, Telegram, Instagram, maybe Twitter. TikTok is terrifying.

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Re:Poll: Which FAANG is the most likely to decline in the ye... by joshlemer on Monday January 03, 2022 @05:05PM (#29787622)
I don't think it's inappropriate to add people you meet on Facebook in your late 30's. Don't miss out on a chance to become friends with someone just because you think FB adding is a faux pas!

Also, where else would you post an event details page aside from Facebook? Meetup? That's even more dead..

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Re:Poll: Which FAANG is the most likely to decline in the ye... by captainmuon on Monday January 03, 2022 @07:15PM (#29789058)
It's more like, when you are in university it's fine to add other students you barely know. But now with a job, I don't want to add my colleagues or business associates to social media. Also real friends != FB friends, I'm not going to miss out on making personal connections because of this.

I dunno, I guess for events FB is still the place to go.

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Re:Poll: Which FAANG is the most likely to decline in the ye... by raydev on Monday January 03, 2022 @05:19PM (#29787785)
> Facebook is for old people now.

Sure. Still millions of eyes for ads, and those eyes have money to spend after they rage out in the comments of a targeted news post about wokeism or vaccine mandates.

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