Although an app's downloads aren't an exact proxy for usage, they can hint at where the market is headed. And in the case of the alt-Twitter wars, the app
Wow I’m surprised so many people still use facebook. In my circles I hardly ever hear from it. People my age (40s) are worried about privacy, the younger generations all prefer insta (30s), tiktok (20s) and other stuff.
I really used to like facebook when it showed me updates of what my friends were doing on the timeline.
But then they moved to this algorithmic “feed” crap which hid some of my friends’ updates and inserted random other crap. Then I hated it and the privacy invasion wasn’t worth it anymore. If they’d only allowed me to keep the old timeline I probably would still be using it. It just felt like such a drag going through all the bullshit every day trying to find news from my friends.
Wow I’m surprised so many people still use facebook.
30 seconds in a month counts as an active user, so it’s not really surprising. A lot of small business, event and community information is still tied up in the Facebook ecosystem, forcing people to keep their accounts around for those occasional logins. We’re not talking about 3 billion people using it for hours a day.
Yes indeed. I stuck with instagram a lot longer because it didn’t do this, but now in an attempt to copycat TikTok they’ve done the same with the home screen that keeps switching back to “For you” instead of “Following”. 🤦♂️
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Wow I’m surprised so many people still use facebook. In my circles I hardly ever hear from it. People my age (40s) are worried about privacy, the younger generations all prefer insta (30s), tiktok (20s) and other stuff.
I really used to like facebook when it showed me updates of what my friends were doing on the timeline.
But then they moved to this algorithmic “feed” crap which hid some of my friends’ updates and inserted random other crap. Then I hated it and the privacy invasion wasn’t worth it anymore. If they’d only allowed me to keep the old timeline I probably would still be using it. It just felt like such a drag going through all the bullshit every day trying to find news from my friends.
30 seconds in a month counts as an active user, so it’s not really surprising. A lot of small business, event and community information is still tied up in the Facebook ecosystem, forcing people to keep their accounts around for those occasional logins. We’re not talking about 3 billion people using it for hours a day.
Yeah they all want to cram random “suggestions” into your feed which is honestly worse than the ads.
Yes indeed. I stuck with instagram a lot longer because it didn’t do this, but now in an attempt to copycat TikTok they’ve done the same with the home screen that keeps switching back to “For you” instead of “Following”. 🤦♂️
It’s the inevitable result of users who refuse to abandon their favorite platforms.