I read “it’s dying” by people on Discord and Reddit all the time, but the numbers prove otherwise. It’s been going up this entire time and sitting over 3 billion MONTHLY ACTIVE USERS!
I feel like the bubble around people on other platforms saying “who uses Facebook anymore lol” is kind of wild given the numbers. Keep in mind these are active users not just abandoned accounts.
Because people treat it like it’s an indispensable town square.
This place is chock full of idealists and techies, it’s easy to lose track of exactly how much sheer “inertia” and habit shape people’s tech choices. And that’s assuming there is a choice at all, maybe you either Facebook up or junior isn’t going to any activities, nobody knows what’s up in the neighborhood, people will either be harder to contact or (partly understandably) look at you like an asocial weirdo, etc