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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.
Yes i am a "monthly" user of facebook. I log on about once a month as the strata for my building foes basically everything through facebook.
I look at it like internet explorer a few years ago, it has its claws in everything and its just easier to keep using than for people to find an alternative that satisfys everyone.
It's worth remembering Meta (Facebook at the time) spent a lot of money making it free to use Facebook on data plans across the world.
Facebook marketplace primarily for anyone I know that still uses it. Also people having messenger as their sms app and not knowing the difference or using their Facebook account to sign into every other website and games. Don't forget every Instagram and WhatsApp user is pressured to link their accounts too. Meta makes parasites seem friendly and helpful 🙃
Messenger no longer integrates SMS. It was dropped some time last year or even earlier.
Sounds like inflated numbers tbh
Boomers
Given that that's a third of the world population, I think they may be misreporting their users. Meta has been caught boosting numbers artificially before (when they released Threads they gave everyone who had an Instagram account a free Threads account, and then bragged about how fast their social network was growing).
There are 7.9 billion people in the world. Only 5.4 billion have any level of internet access. This includes people living in China where Facebook is banned. 3 billion is such a high percentage of all possible facebook users that I have to assume the numbers aren't all that accurate. Maybe "active" just means they haven't deactivated their account? Or maybe they consider bots to be people?
Meme groups (specially Latin American) :)
Normies.
It's the one place where you can have a group for free.
A group of/for what? There's Lemmy, discord, reddit, telegram, etc where you can have groups of people for various things... I haven't used Facebook in 15 years so I have no idea what's new.
There really isn't a replacement for local stuff.
Nextdoor exists but it's not really any better since it's still a proprietary walled garden.
