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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.
Your grandma and all your aunts and uncles and cousins are there, so there's a certain amount of checking for weddings and funerals.
The new restaurant on the corner has the menu on their Facebook page before there's a Google maps link to it.
Concert venues put their calendar, lineup, and set times on it
School districts and local communities post their snow days, park events, theater schedule, library events, stuff like that and it's easier to see that all in one place instead of going to each of their websites.
Normies.
Several of the services listed on this graph are not social media.
A lot of the ones you're probably thinking of have a useless "stories"-like feature now, which qualifies them as social media.
It's weird how much the media still cover twitter, given how increasingly niche it's become.
Also seems quite high. I did a google and apparently it's half the number and closer to 300 million.
Most folks never bother to delete their accounts, and it’s now one of the older social networks. It was also popular at one time among GenX, who got their Boomer parents to sign up so they could keep contact with their grandkids remotely.
There are far fewer Boomers on TikTok, and many GenX’rs have simply given up on trying to remain in contact with anyone they actually know.
Boomerbook, lmao
I'm pretty happy Telegram is there though. It's the step in the right direction when we talk about "better internet". Also never realized it's that big as it has yet to break through in my country.
It's popular with three sources: Trolls, Idiots, and Bots.
