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Facebook stopped being cool a decade ago when adults, parents, companies started using it. Like most social media, it started with the young and was cool. Then it got quickly adopted by the adults. If anything, instagram, twitch, tiktok, etc is cool. Facebook is practically a utility now.

I doubt facebook is going to get disrupted any time soon. No more than Elon Musk was going to jail or his businesses ( tesla, spacex ) taken from him. Facebook is more than facebook. It's an ecosystem. It's the preferred login mechanism of a lot of the web. Also, facebook owns Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram. Nearly 1.5 billion people use Messenger alone.

The media is in attack mode against facebook. Everything from the media about them will be exaggerated and negative. So I'd take anything the news about facebook with a grain of salt.

Even the new yorker doesn't believe facebook is going anywhere.

https://www.facebook.com/newyorker

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> The media is in attack mode against facebook. Everything from the media about them will be exaggerated and negative. So I'd take anything the news about facebook with a grain of salt.

It's shocking how heavy-handed it is. Literally every day I see some news article about how Facebook is O-V-E-R.

Meanwhile, my friends list hasn't changed one bit, and I haven't met a single person who's dumped Facebook for more than a few months. Some leave, but they always come back.

Everything about this seems like an organized attack on FB by the mainstream media.

5 years off FB, 4 years off InstagramFB + dating apps

While living in LA and NYC, and single

Has both negatively and positively impacted my life

We don’t always go back, the assertion is biased and/or anecdotal and shouldn’t be publicly made

This is definitely a PR offensive mixed with journalist arousal and legislator outrage. Impossible to know all the actors

Read “10 Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now” by Jaron Lanier, especially if you’re on HN but don’t know who that is

It wasn't that the "adults" adopted it, it's that the younger generation inevitably grew up and turned into the adults.

It was both. Plenty of parents and grandparents of that first college-aged Facebook generation are on Facebook now.

Holy shit, this. The whole "my parents joined so I left because it wasn't cool" isn't it. The people who adopted in the early naughts are now those very adults we speak of. No Jane --although cute-- I don't care about your baby. And is it really a good idea to put your baby on social media without their explicit consent? Who owns a child's social media presence before they do?

> And is it really a good idea to put your baby on social media without their explicit consent? Who owns a child's social media presence before they do?

Oh my! Thank you, thank you, thank you. It annoys me what parents think they can do with/to[0] a child just because they're the parents.

[0] I'm firmly against ear piercing a child, for example. Parents, those are not your ears to poke holes in.

I don't think so. I joined facebook back when it was 'cool', but it's not just my generation that are now adults that are on there. My parents, my friends parents, adults in their 50/60s+ have all joined facebook and are very active despite not being on there when it was only used by college students. Part of the reason why many younger people are no longer as active on Facebook is because anyone from their boss to their aunt to their grandma is now likely to see their posts.

A social network stops being cool when that coworker you dislike tries to connect with you.

LinkedIn in a nutshell.

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