Is facebook becoming the new myspace?

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#21

I rarely use fakebook and hate it

#22

All local shows here use Facebook events. As a regular performer, Iā€™m kind of stuck. Really looking forward to the day I donā€™t have to use it anymore.

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#23

Or, just gave people a place to publicize their infantilism? Still disturbing but not isolated unfortunately.

#24

ditched it in 2017 when i realised iā€™ve been giing it 10 years worth of energy!

#25

Corporatized internet, weaponizing insecurities for eyeshare AND forcing us to have no control over the content we wish to self-curate will do that.

#26

Both sure. I watched people regress from acting like adults to returning to playground antics.

#27

Yes and no. Itā€™s definitely not where young people are going and has the reputation of being the place your mom/racist grandpa posts, but network effect means itā€™s probably not going to be a ghost town for at least a couple years, I expect.

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#28

Facebook has been dead for many years now. I donā€™t know anyone who uses it except for keeping up with their grandparents.

#29

Or you grew up as people embraced the towniness they always held within.

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#30

I only have a fake account I created maybe 10 years ago, that I havenā€™t checked for maybe 3 or 4 years?

When I first signed up as a real account I was getting request for friends from people I truly did not miss, so I closed that account the same week it was opened.

Still from what I read, Facebook is an aging audience.

It doesnā€™t seem itā€™ll become unpopular like MySpace did at some point, but until this Metaverse thing takes off (and I actually think it will be huge when it does), youā€™ll likely see more of the same.

#31

Likely too. Those moments are when you also take a step back and assess things and start to take another road.

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#32

Thatā€™s not what myspace was. Myspace was awesome for artists. It could look like a website with a music player, and no politics anywhere. Facebook wishes it was anywhere near as good.

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#33

I have bad news about ā€œThe Metaverseā€ (it ded.)

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#34

In the defense of people still on Facebook, there are some good meme groups. Entomemeology is one of my wifeā€™s favorites

#35

Ditched it years ago for my mental health. Zero negative impact on anything.

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#36

I remember when facebook started you needed a .edu email account to join. Now I am pretty sure it is just a collection of the dumbest people on earth (at least this is my experience from briefly joining to check out some music and gear related groups). I canā€™t even imagine how incoherent and idiotic the political stuff must be.

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#37

Still goingā€¦ Itā€™s going to be ridiculed until it becomes a success.

Iā€™t going to be a long while before it is anything worthwhile, but once it has a bit of success, others will buy in and itā€™ll be Ready Player One.

#38

The success of FB means that it has the ability to buy other companies even if FB itself disappears.

#39

If the political class and parts of my family are anything to go by, a college degree does not save people from acting likeā€¦ that.

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#40

RPO was a literal dystopia.

Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Donā€™t Create The Torment Nexus

ā€œThankfullyā€ the AI dystopia killed Metaā€™s dystopia.

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