• Facebook hits billion users in a day
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I barley use Facebook anymore and I kept hearing it died down.
I used facebook to keep up with friends, and a few group chats for organizing events
I still check mine once or twice a day but it feels like nobody's using it anymore. It's just a mess of ads and memes, with the occasional interesting life event. I use the messenger and the event parts more than anything.
After high school most of the "friends" i had on it stopped responding to my messages so I kind of just drifted away and only used it to communicate to uni friends for school projects.
apparently this thread is about sharing our experiences with facebook
Son of a bitch locked my account a year ago I just learned to not need it
I primarily use it for chatting, which I've been pushing people to use Hangouts for instead. Its sooooooo much better than Messenger.
Haven't used my Facebook in months...
And yet there exist people who claim Facebook is dead.
why is everyone jumping up and down in the air to tell us how much they dont use facebook? "oh wow article about how facebook has a bunch of users quick gotta tell online forums that im not one of those users!"
I check mine about once every few months, just don't see the point to it really.
I remember signing up for Facebook to get in-game items in a mobile game I loved playing at the time. But then like a month later the game completely dropped all ties with Facebook with no explanation. So then I just used it for posting ClickHole articles pretending they were real and shit until everyone got mad at me and I stopped posting. On a side note, I'm surprised that Facebook hasn't hit this milestone before now.
[QUOTE=paul simon;48557174]And yet there exist people who claim Facebook is dead.[/QUOTE] Facebook really died down in popularity amongst the younger generation because they largely moved onto other things. Facebook sprung up when it was generally hard to keep in "casual touch" with friends, but a lot of other services basically replaced that role in a better way when Facebook got huge. Facebook now is mostly filled with older people who joined up after the younger generation was already using it pretty heavily, and that older generation stayed. Since then Facebook has largely become a giant cesspit of political picture memes your parents post alongside huge wall posts, buzzfeed articles that appeal to Generation X/older Y's, and a massive amount of corporate marketing/advertising at every corner. Plus you had the issue where people have hundreds to thousands of friends for no reason. Stuff like Twitter, instagram, vine, snapchat, etc are simply a much more elegant way to be "casually social" with your actual friend group and it's why a lot of people that aren't the above demographics have mostly moved on to that. That said everyone still uses facebook. It simply is the best way to keep in touch with family, or some friends. And some of the younger generation really haven't moved beyond facebook. But a lot of us are likely like everyone in this thread - they have one, they technically use it, but only check it once every blue moon for a quick minute.
I've never used facebook. Ever. Well, that's a lie, I had an account and only used it once. I don't see why people use it so often, it's like a cesspit.
[QUOTE=KorJax;48557489]Facebook really died down in popularity amongst the younger generation because they largely moved onto other things. Facebook sprung up when it was generally hard to keep in "casual touch" with friends, but a lot of other services basically replaced that role in a better way when Facebook got huge. Facebook now is mostly filled with older people who joined up after the younger generation was already using it pretty heavily, and that older generation stayed. Since then Facebook has largely become a giant cesspit of political picture memes your parents post alongside huge wall posts, buzzfeed articles that appeal to Generation X/older Y's, and a massive amount of corporate marketing/advertising at every corner. Plus you had the issue where people have hundreds to thousands of friends for no reason. Stuff like Twitter, instagram, vine, snapchat, etc are simply a much more elegant way to be "casually social" with your actual friend group and it's why a lot of people that aren't the above demographics have mostly moved on to that. That said everyone still uses facebook. It simply is the best way to keep in touch with family, or some friends. And some of the younger generation really haven't moved beyond facebook. But a lot of us are likely like everyone in this thread - they have one, they technically use it, but only check it once every blue moon for a quick minute.[/QUOTE] don't forget its spread to other, poorer countries
Facebook cant be [I]that[/I] dead if basically a 7th of the world use it
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