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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Sadly Elon Musk remains a threat to us all.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 days ago (3 children)

it's why politicians want to ban it

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Isn't whatsapp for old people? Drag uses Discord instead. It's not great, but at least it doesn't hack your phone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

As much as I dislike Whatsapp and love Discord. Private messages in Whatsapp are encrypted while Discord messages are entirely collected

[–] [email protected] 241 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I think teens abandoned Facebook like 10 years ago

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Teens stopped using Facebook in 2015.

[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Surely longer ago than that? Facebook hasn't been cool for probably over 15 years

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Has FB been cool since they got rid of signups limited by .edu email addresses?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

You had a good year or two after that and then it went to shit.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That was basically the end. When it was only friends and the feed sorted by "new,", it was super fun. When my aunts started joining it became much less fun.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

That's when it was cool to teens who didn't have .edu emails addresses (but not long after).

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Because Whatsapp is totally not owned by FB.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It’s not about why owns it. It’s about where young people can be without getting bothered by their parents and other old people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

That's about phone number requirement for signup. Not about platforms.

OK. Life is life.

I've just had a traumatic memory of one young person, a girl (with possibly undiagnosed ASPD), from 13 years ago.

Feel nausea and want to throw up every time thinking about that kind of places, dynamics, emotions.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'm 41.....you telling me the kids today don't think of me as the greatest person who ever existed??? Pssshhh that's malarkey! I won't hear of it! EVERYONE thinks I'm the greatest person who ever existed! My lexicon includes words like "malarkey" and "lexicon"! Kids think that's cool right???

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Clearly you young people are fine being on Lemmy with old people

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Where there any teens on Twitter? Last I was there it was full of angry middle-age men.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Ah, the curse of algorithmic social network. It’s full of angry middle-aged men if you follow those / interact with them. There are / were big communities formed around various pop stars on Twitter and those are quite different demographics.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago

That is a weird way of describing it. Teens aren't "abandoning" FB & X; they never signed up to begin with. And why would that? They are platforms built for and filled with millennials+.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (2 children)

A decade ago is when teens stopped using Facebook, unless they're counting Instagram in those metrics?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Look at the graph in the article: it’s the only newsworthy piece. Assuming the numbers are legit, the lines crossed about 6 years ago.

Of course the x axis not having any labeled points there doesn’t fill me with confidence. Perhaps it’s just two points for each and they drew a straight line

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Ok, I feel old. The only reason facebook has any relevance to me is the market place. What’s the best alternative?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

That's just it, Facebook is kinda the default option, and almost everyone has an account there. It's why so many clubs arrange everything through a Facebook page.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Okay? But what does Whatsapp has anything to do with the other? DM?

I don't consider WhatsApp social media.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

WhatsApp has channels (public feeds centered around topics, a bit like microblogging), communities (groups about a subject, much like Facebook Groups), and updates (temporal video/photo statuses to share with your friends). You might only use it for DM, but it has much bigger aspirations.

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