Will Gen Z Finally Kill Facebook?

www.thedailybeast.com ^ | 06.07.18 5:23 AM ET | Kamaron McNair Kamaron McNair

[Red Badger]

We can only hope................

[robroys woman]

About the only thing I use Facebook for now is discussions in the FaceBook group, RethinkingHell.

[Red Badger]

Teens are ditching it because it’s no longer ‘cool’ and the place has become the Granny Site.....................

[Blue Jays]

Facebook is killing itself with their ridiculous “news” feed, people “dedicating” their birthdays to spoonfed leftwinger causes, plus relentless advertising. I keep it simply to be apprised of events my various clubs have published into the calendar feature.

[DaxtonBrown]

I’m not sure how Facebook survives long term. It is a privacy nightmare, a data miner, terminally politically correct.

[a fool in paradise]

Would the collapse of facebook tank the stock market?

[robroys woman]

I still get a lot of posts from friends, but I pretty much ignore them all, with rare exception. And based on what I’m seeing, “Granny site” is an excellent name for it. And some grandpas, but mostly grannys.

[gunnyg]

Hopefully, POTUS.45! will kill them all by going to his own @TrumpBook!
THAT I will join!
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
THE TRUMPER.45 IF? We Can Keep Him???
GunnyG@PlanetWTG?
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

[robroys woman]

Thing is, they may end up with lots of users, but the wrong demographic. Take me: I’ve not clicked on an ad on facebook, ever. After once or twice, I stopped clicking on news feed “recommended” articles too.

[SoCal Pubbie]

“So, don’t worry. The kids are alright.”

Yeah, sure kid.

[Enlightened1]

Yes.

Fakebook will be no more in 10 years.

[Snickering Hound]

[Buckeye McFrog]

I’m not sure how Facebook survives long term. It is a privacy nightmare, a data miner, terminally politically correct.

Not to mention it's a veritable cesspool of international criminals. And sooner or later some country is going get serious about prosecuting them for it.

[Dilbert San Diego]

I never got Facebook. I never understood the desire to share various aspects of your life with the world.

And I wondered if Facebook stock was a good investment, when it went public. I still wonder if it will be around long term, the way fads and trends come and go.

[ThanhPhero]

I did like Xanga. It was a great place to write short and not so short pieces and get comments and critiques. I made friends (real ones, not the kind you "unfriend" in a snit) that I have visited and stayed with in SEA. I was able to help numerous Việt and Thai and one Burmese with their English and got some constructive help with my tiệ́ng Việt. Facebook looked like a mindless chatter site and I have felt no attraction to it. I have a presence on FB of sorts because two of my children set me up sites thinking they were getting me up to Trend. They use them. I don't.

[Red Badger]

FB has already devolved into a Senior Citizen get together site, Granny Site and advertising site.

That’s why Teens a leaving it in droves.....................

[McGavin999]

If used properly it’s fine. Give them no information, keep neighborhood associations utd on events, share pictures with family, no politics.

[Spruce]

Facebook usage in my household

Myself: Never used FB, no desire to join the hive-mind
Wife: Uses FB a lot
Daughter, 33: Rarely uses FB. Uses for work only.
Son, 30: Never uses FB. “Why would I use that?”
Daughter, 20: Rarely uses FB. “FB sucks.”
Daughter, 18: Never uses FB, “FB is for old people”
Daughter, 16: Never uses FB. “LOL.. Facebook. LOL”

FB will crash and burn eventually.

[Mastador1]

I never understood individuals using it to begin with. if you have a computer you have email, if you have email you have a contact list and can just send what you want to share to everyone at once.

Another thing I never understood was this friend bullshit, I knew a person who was all excited by strangers friending him and by how many of them there were. I found that to be ..........sad.

[Red Badger]

Tell him most of those ‘friends’ are bots..........................