Re:Ask HN: Is Facebook Dying?
by ehnto on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @10:56PM
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Your view seems to ignore the temporal aspect, for one the original userbase of FB was students, they certainly weren't parents. FB hasn't been around that long, so to suggest anything has 'always' been the case ignores how this has been a very rapidly evolving ecosystem of software, from a generational point of view.
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Re:Ask HN: Is Facebook Dying?
by waste_monk on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @11:04PM
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You're missing the forest for the tree. It doesn't matter what software platforms or communications methods are involved - children (or rather descendants, since they may be adults) generally do not wish to share the same social platform as their parents / older relatives.
I totally agree, that's the point of my comment even. This is a moving target, nothing 'always' about it. We're discussing the decline of facebook over time, and it started being popular with an entirely different age group than it is now.
I also think it's worth noting these are relatively new phenomenon, we haven't even had social networks for long enough to pin down trends so absolutely.
I appreciate my parents being on FB. But I’m an adult. I also left FB for a time though too.
I think FB can do real psychological harm so you have to be psychologically prepared for it.
Those college students grew up and that age group make up the bulk of facebook with their parents on as well.
Exactly, so it's not the case that FB has 'always' been for old people, is my point. It has evolved over time, as we're seeing most social networks doing. It seems hard to become a long term incumbent, but it's evolving in front of us.