Looks like people got over receiving updates on their high school classmates. I think lately people interact more directly based on niche interests. Instead of publicly visible groups they interact in closed discord/whatsapp etc.

OTOH, most of my friends (and their children!!!) are using Facebook again like they haven't since it first came out.

It turns out, Facebook is insanely useful for keeping in touch with friends and family, and for organizing events. It simply doesn't have any competition for those use cases.

And there's no pressure to constantly post updates like there is with Instagram or TikTok, so even the kids and teens are getting into Facebook (albeit highly curated because their parents/family can see the posts). Tiktok/IG are still where they post silly shit and memes for their peers, but FB has become the place where they post the stuff they actually care about.

If your friends are the type of people who just post troll posts, that says more about your friends than it does about Facebook.

Most of my friends in Vietnam are still very much active on Facebook. I guess it's location dependent.

My friends in Vietnam use Facebook differently than my American friends. For example, if a friend posts a photo with his wife, you'd have just as many friends poking fun of it as you would have in support - all in jest, of course. Compare that to my American friends whose Facebook posts receive significantly less engagement and mostly one-dimensional feedback (all overtly supportive).

Maybe it's how they use the platform which seems to work more better.

It is location dependent. I hate using Facebook or being on Facebook with a burning passion, but if you're an "expat" or foreigner in any country, Facebook is probably where the other foreigners are helping each other answer newb questions with the latest info, learn about social events, and integrate.

In some countries the only place a business exists online is on Facebook (or lately Instagram).

Same for Thailand. News channels have evolved (in a bad way) to cover what the celebrities posted on FB or IG the day before.

Maybe it's going to be like KFC where it's well alive and lively in countries outside of the US.

I handle social media customer service for a medium-sized US based company. We only sell to US customers. About one out of every fifty contacts we receive via Facebook are from people in the US.

I ditched FB specifically because I was tired of my ambient information leaking out to my associates. In-person meetups literally turned into simple recaps of what everyone already knew. I figured out pretty quick that I enjoy giving my friends updates on what's happened, and receiving updates from them in kind, in person.

Since withdrawing from FB and nearly all major social media, my in-person meetups are far more fulfilling.