why did facebook "die" and will twitter follow in its footsteps?

[Gravityqueen4life]

its crazy how 10+ years ago, everyone was on facebook and now its just a ghost town used by boomers. how did it happen?

 

[56 others]

The best part of facebook is marketplace, because you can find retarded listings amd then creep on the retard who posted them. An amazing feature craigslist lacks

 

[proangelwhangs]

remember when they introduced those sneaky ads into your feed that were like 'friend x likes x product', even though they obviously never would, and had never even interacted with that products page. and you just knew they were doing the same kind of misrepresentation to others with your own name. it really tipped it from i'm just here because myspace died to this is an actual hellsite even a spastic like myself can recognize.

 

[Saddam Hussain Obama]

There was this very brief time period from like 2014 to 2016 when Facebook was really at it's peak, damn near everyone was on it. There were groups you could join that were basically 4chan on FB, it was amazing to have that kind of content right next to your aunt's boomer minion memes. Fun times, but too many people (strangely a lot of them from Canada) got assmad at offensive jokes posted in closed groups they could have just ignored, and FB started slowly getting more heavy handed with censorship.

People also woke up to the data harvesting shenanigans going on, and like someone else said, younger people didn't want to be on the same site their parents used. Throw in the collective temper tantrums that happened after Trump won in 2016, a lot of people left because it just wasn't the same place anymore. I held onto my account until early 2017ish so I could keep in touch with some people, but as more and more left even that reason evaporated.

I have relatives who still use it, for them it's more like a content aggregation site than social media. They don't really talk to anyone except the same handful of people more normal humans would just send a text message to. Now it's just boomers all the way down.

It wouldn't surprise me if something similar happens to Twitter, though I don't see that happening unless a single major competitor comes along that enough people latch onto. Maybe TikTok.

There was a very strong closed-network community of people that were keeping Facebook alive by posting memes, having fun, and roasting other people in closed groups. Zuckerberg went full Xinnie the Pooh with the censorship, adopted a social credit system and decided to murder his own userbase in cold blood. The anonymous alts? Gone. The groups where you could meme? Beaten to death with a hammer. Roasting groups? Online bullying is now illegal, 30 day ban for saying some retard has a bad hair-do. It's gotten to the point today where you can no longer say the word "Bitch" anymore depending on where you are and what your account's history is. Hell even the Coomer groups where 40 year old women would post lewds for simp attention were being banned left and right. The new audiences were turned off by the photo ID requirements and the phone # requirements. The older audiences simply couldn't post because they used "retard" or "autistic" one too many times. If you tried to use the platform for anything fun, chances are you've spent more time banned than you have logged as actual user time. It's not that only Boomers choose use Facebook, it's that Boomers are the only people ALLOWED to use Facebook. It's driving away it's own userbase. It seems to me all of these social media platforms serve horrific dual purposes. Facebook is a social credit system test run, Reddit is a bot-farm, TikTok is a propaganda machine, Instagram is photo-mapping, and Twitter is news media narrative control. If Musk doesn't complete re-shape it top to bottom, Twitter will die and that's no easy task because it's internal systems work against it.

TL;DR Facebook killed Facebook. Twitter soon to follow.

not to necro this thread but this pretty much nails it all the fun people got censored moved to discord or twitter the boomers are the only ones allowed to stay