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Why is Facebook still so insanely popular? (midwest.social)

submitted 5 months ago by jeze64@midwest.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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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.

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[-] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago

I still have it because it's still the easiest and most convenient way to message people that you've just met. There's a sort of snowball effect in which having lots of people incentives even more people to stay on the platform. Nobody I know actually uses Facebook as a social media site - they only use it for Messenger.

Although, I've found that more and more people are starting to use SMS as their first choice rather than Messenger

[-] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 months ago

Yeah I just tell people I don't have social media (which save for Lemmy and Discord is true), and we exchange numbers. Nobody I've run into has batted an eye at this. I think people really are coming back around to texting because it's easier in a lot of ways. An exception to this is trans people, femme in particular, where being on Discord is so ubiquitous we don't even ask if the other person has it we just assume it's their preferred chat method...

[-] ziixe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago

Hot take, in places like eastern/central Europe it's better to use SMS over RCS or iMessage, I don't care that I can't pin an emoji to a message or a texting indicator is not there, I want it delivered and not with the overpriced mobile data goddamnit

[-] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago

This is news to me. Everyone I know just uses WhatsApp or Facebook messenger or even telegram. I haven't sent a sms in years and only received from banks or telco operators.

[-] ziixe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah, it's pretty much favoured towards Facebook messages and/or WhatsApp, but I'd gladly use SMS over those two (or hell even RCS, not possible with some stupid people in my class, which bought an iPhone in the last two years, not to mention we had (and technically still have) a recession, which means that buying an iPhone is the most fucking stupid thing you could)

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