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

Re:Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social ne... by batiudrami on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @12:01AM (#32246717)

It depends how you measure it, right? I now only use Facebook for events and that is because there is nothing else that competes. Everything else in the Facebook app is awful, and even events is increasingly user-hostile. I recently deleted instagram (an app I actually used to really like!). But I still count as a daily active user in their reporting.

I wonder what their internal engagement metrics look like. I bet Facebook’s feed engagement (which is their primary ad display) on the Facebook app is way down, because the feed sucks. Instagram risks doing the same with this frenzied push for engagement.

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Re:Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social ne... by saurik on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @12:48AM (#32246941)

> I now only use Facebook for events and that is because there is nothing else that competes.

This is a big reason I still use Facebook, and am extremely unhappy that they keep removing features :(. I used to be able to browse events easily for random dates in random locations on my phone, a feature that now only seems to exist on desktop... but, even then, it doesn't seem to support not having a search term :/. When you combine that with fewer and fewer events being on it due to fewer and fewer people being in the target market of using it it is in a death spiral.

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