Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social networking era

Re:Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social ne... by ZephyrBlu on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @10:03PM (#32246183)

Attention is zero-sum. If TikTok is winning, someone else is losing. TikTok now is what Facebook was 10 years ago.

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Re:Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social ne... by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @11:01PM (#32246456)

Facebook is where my older relatives social network. As soon as it became a place where people over 40 went, it lost its appeal to the young people that Facebook is really after.

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Re:Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social ne... by astrange on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @11:46PM (#32246662)

It's not just that the people over 40 are on it, it's that your grandmother comes and leaves confused comments about unrelated topics on your friend's posts.

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Re:Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social ne... by permo-w on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @04:03AM (#32247993)

this is why they bought instagram

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Re:Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social ne... by n0tth3dro1ds on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @10:38PM (#32246352)

Smartphone attention is not zero sum. Average daily usage could increase with some novel super-addictive app or platform. Smartphone usage probably went up during the pandemic.

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Re:Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social ne... by stevenjgarner on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @11:11PM (#32246507)

"The pandemic boosted global (smartphone) data consumption by more than 30 per cent in 2020" [0]

[0] https://theprint.in/tech/the-covid-19-pandemic-has-led-to-an...

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Re:Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social ne... by goldorak on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @05:58AM (#32248597)

"Average daily usage could increase" And at some point you just need to increase the hours in a day...

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