<story><title>Ask HN: Is Facebook Dying?</title><text>I&amp;#x27;m not talking about Meta the company, but rather thier Facebook property. I&amp;#x27;ve been on for about 13 years. My newsfeed lately is a graveyard only populated by ads and some groups I belong to. The only friends left are narcissists or people selling something. I&amp;#x27;m not motivated to post anything because I get much less engagement in the form of likes or comments than I used to. Just curious if this is just me or everyone knows it&amp;#x27;s dying.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>OhSoHumble</author><text>A twelve year old laughed at me for using Facebook - and I mean a genuine, mirthful, hearty laugh. I&amp;#x27;m thirty. If I&amp;#x27;m being laughed at by someone from generation Z for using Facebook... how will Facebook grow? And I don&amp;#x27;t even use Facebook that much; most of my social activity occurs on Discord.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mcv</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t mind being on a platform that&amp;#x27;s not used by 12 year olds. I&amp;#x27;m looking for interesting social&amp;#x2F;political&amp;#x2F;philosophical&amp;#x2F;technological content and engagement, and I suspect only a minority of teenagers are really interested in that.&lt;p&gt;And while teenagers are on Discord, my impression is that their content there isn&amp;#x27;t great either. The interesting stuff on Discord is also mostly from 40-somethings.&lt;p&gt;Thing is, facebook has never been a great place for these things. I still have a FB account, but I haven&amp;#x27;t checked it in years, and back in the days when I did, there was only one person posting really interesting stuff. Everything else was just lame crap. For a while, I set FB to notify me when that guy posted anything and just ignored everything else, but I really wish he&amp;#x27;d just post on a better platform.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask HN: Is Facebook Dying?</title><text>I&amp;#x27;m not talking about Meta the company, but rather thier Facebook property. I&amp;#x27;ve been on for about 13 years. My newsfeed lately is a graveyard only populated by ads and some groups I belong to. The only friends left are narcissists or people selling something. I&amp;#x27;m not motivated to post anything because I get much less engagement in the form of likes or comments than I used to. Just curious if this is just me or everyone knows it&amp;#x27;s dying.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>OhSoHumble</author><text>A twelve year old laughed at me for using Facebook - and I mean a genuine, mirthful, hearty laugh. I&amp;#x27;m thirty. If I&amp;#x27;m being laughed at by someone from generation Z for using Facebook... how will Facebook grow? And I don&amp;#x27;t even use Facebook that much; most of my social activity occurs on Discord.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jiscariot</author><text>12 year-olds have always laughed at Facebook and instead used, X (kik, Snap, Tiktok, etc). They are a fickle bunch with no interest in being on the same platform as their parents. This is not anything new.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d argue that the NYT&amp;#x27;s war on FB and Apple&amp;#x27;s policies around privacy (e.g. &amp;quot;Tracking your data&amp;quot; when FB and &amp;quot;Enhancing your user experience&amp;quot; when APPL).</text></comment>