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Comment by onychomys | Hacker News Reader

Yeah, it's an interesting question. 15 years ago every party and community meeting was a facebook event. Now we just do it via a messaging service or email or whatever. I didn't notice it happening, and I'm not really sure why it happened. Presumably it's a critical mass sort of thing, plenty of people don't use facebook anymore and so it's not as good of a way to get things set up.

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Oh yes and I remember a time where people who were not on facebook kind of stopped existing in your mind. Where "I don't have facebook" was feeling like an insult on the community.

Times have changed now my facebook feed is only ads (from facebook or people in my list promoting their own thing) and news articles where people are writing things to each other that they would be ashamed for if read to their parents

> Where "I don't have facebook" was feeling like an insult on the community

Now LinkedIn is like that.

>15 years ago every party and community meeting was a facebook event.

It's still like this in Europe. Comedians, bands, bars, cafes, basically any kind of venue and enternatiner, organize and announce their events mainly on Facebook. There isn't another alternative that's as seamless and all encompassing as Facebook for this.

With one facebook account I can follow all the bands, bars and cafes in my city without them having to build their own website(they don't even bother) and me having to subscribe with an account to each of them separately.

Also, the marketplace is great for selling old crap and for finding plumbers, electricians and various handymen as Facebooks is their main free advertising avenue.

SO IMHO, it's far from dead, its just not the cool new thing anymore that gets you hooked, like TikTok, but unlike TikTok it's actually more valuable.

Depends entirely on the group. I still have some activities that organize primarily via Facebook.

And honestly, it’s fine. HN talks about Facebook with out of control hyperbole, but I have no problem logging in and finding what I need. I could see how it would be a problem for people without impulse control or with social media addictions, but then again HN is a well known time waster website with social features as well.

HN is a time waster all right, but I guess one reason why I still keep using it despite it technically being a Silicon Valley platform is the lack of social features.

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