Why Did Facebook Die?

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Saddam Hussain Obama

Saddam Hussain Obama

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I looked at an old thread and the common sentiment is that boomers joined and censorship killed it, but is that all there is to it? Why did everyone suddenly switch to Twitter over Facebook? My boomer family has been censored and often talks about Facebook jail, but was that enough to take it from the number one social network to a ghost town? And how has Twitter's decline not effected it?
 
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How is Facebook dead?

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They have 3 billion active users. Facebook provides free internet to the Philippines that allows them to use Facebook without any data. Facebook is pretty much the standard method of everything for the entire country.

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Facebook measures monthly active users as users that have logged in during the past 30 days. Figures do not include Instagram or WhatsApp users unless they would otherwise qualify as such users, respectively, based on their other activities on Facebook.
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As someone who had a myspace page at one point in time, I disagree strongly that facebook is in any way dead.
 
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If you mean 'not really used anymore by millenials and gen Zs', it's probably because their parents and grandparents adopted Facebook. Ask any kid, and something immediately becomes uncool once parents start using it. The userbase started growing older, more competing avenues of communication or sharing stuff opened up, and FB started to become more professional - for lack of a better term. A lot of corporations are on FB as compared to 10 years ago, and HR likes to trawl around on FB to check potential job applicants/candidates.

Also, FB took huge time sinks like Farmville off of the platform.
 
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Saddam Hussain Obama said:
But how has twitter survived
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Twitter was always smaller in size and scope compared to Facebook. It serves one purpose, short messages sometimes with pictures or video, and does it pretty well, so it's smaller userbase doesn't get tired of it and attempts to create a competitor always fail. Thinking about it, Elon Musk may still drive Twitter/X into the ground, just not in the way his haters think. His goal is apparently to make X an everything app, so what we used to know as Twitter will lose what made it last in the first place, causing it to follow Facebook and Myspace into the grave and everyone will be using something else by the end of this decade.
 
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Magicicada_septendecula said:
Twitter was always smaller in size and scope compared to Facebook. It serves one purpose, short messages sometimes with pictures or video, and does it pretty well, so it's smaller userbase doesn't get tired of it and attempts to create a competitor always fail. Thinking about it, Elon Musk may still drive Twitter/X into the ground, just not in the way his haters think. His goal is apparently to make X an everything app, so what we used to know as Twitter will lose what made it last in the first place, causing it to follow Facebook and Myspace into the grave and everyone will be using something else by the end of this decade.
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copying twitter is so easy why do they all fail?
 
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Saddam Hussain Obama said:
copying twitter is so easy why do they all fail?
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Drawing a userbase is the hardest part. Just because you set something up doesn't mean anyone will show up. If Twitter already exists and it's doing fine, no one is moving to Mastodon, Tribel, or Parler if Taylor Swift, Catturd, and Michael Jackson's ghost are on Twitter. Someone like Ron Perlman might leave for a while, but after a few days of shouting at blank walls, they'll be back to Twitter.
 
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I lost interest in Facebook when it went from being a place to keep up with friends and make weekend plans to a place where my elderly relatives share religious minions memes.

It went from being a useful website to an online retirement center pretty quickly.

I also found that the algorithms made the timeline less useful over time. It's all ads and "shares", with meaningful posts few and far between.

Twitter is starting to go that way now.
 
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Only reason as for why I have Facebook, is so I can follow up on and write in an group for my apartment complex.
 
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facebook didn't die, mostly the zoomers in southeast asia use it for containing retardation and schizo posts that is different from twitte- I mean X.
 
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