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The people using Marketplace are the people who wouldn't be using the site otherwise, and who are there for the express purpose of doing commerce. No one over 40 would be caught dead of facebook otherwise.

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>No one over 40 would be caught dead of facebook otherwise.

Until their HOA or their sports club start using Facebook as their official platform for announcements and communication.

I know there are other free platform that could fill the same role, but you will never find one where literally more than half the adult population already has an account and is familiar with the interface/features. Lots of groups use it because it's the path of least resistance.

Enough people don't have or won't use facebook in 2022.

Email is still the lowest common denominator.

Source? This sounds like conjecture at its finest.

Can you sign up with Facebook without an email? I know it asks for your phone number but not sure if it still requires an email.

It's not conjecture. Just look at any form your fill out, from taxes, to medical, to employment. They all ask for your email address and not for your facebook url.

Taking an average of the various reports about Facbook usage in the US, about 70% of internet users use Facebook at least once per month.

Somewhere near 100% of internet users use email.

As ok123456 points out, there's a reason that you get asked for your email address and not your Facebook ID. Asking for Facebook leaves out a huge chunk of people.

If you can get our town's PTA, or city hall, or childcare to use email more than they use Facebook, I will give you one thousand fucking dollars.

I can barely get my D&D group to reliably use emails to communicate, instead of group texts that usually include the entire group, but not always.

>Enough people don't have or won't use facebook in 2022.

It is top 3 most visited after google and youtube. Literally every other service/website you can imagine is worse in terms or popularity.

If >2.5B active monthly users is too low, I can't imagine that anything will ever be enough for you.

It's funny how much projection people do when speaking of FB, as if their personal experience offers some deep insight into a platform of 3.5 billion users whose usage varies by user, demography and geography.

It's funny how people try to deny the simple truth that the site hasn't been fun to use in 15 years.

Whether or not it's fun doesn't isn't the primary driving factor in its continued popularity. People use it because other people use it. It got big and now has a network effect of inertia holding it in place until something else takes off and replaces it.

Then, why does my original post have +30? It must have struck a nerve with more than just myself.

Because there's a certain group of people who feel the same way as you do. And maybe people who read HN are more likely to belong in this group. But HN is not representative of the world.

I'm not sure an opinion (how fun a site is to use) that surely varies wildly across FB's billions of users can even be a universal "simple truth".

Huh? In my experience, no one under 40 uses the site much anymore for its original purposes. The only status updates and memes being posted are from the older crowd.

I meant under.

> No one over 40 would be caught dead of facebook otherwise.

What? The over 40 crowd is FB's main demographic.

Might be true for you. But this is so not true for a lot of the world still. Lots and lots of young people (late 20s, early 30s) still use FB. Anecdotally, quite a few of my friends still do, if not mostly for the groups.

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