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Are people still using Facebook in 2026? I sometimes go back to my Facebook account, it is a complete wasteland, my feed is just generic doomscroll material, nothing new from actual people I know. Communities I follow mostly moved to Discord, it is also no longer where events like festivals post their latest news. Facebook looks like it is #1 on paper, but my experience is completely different, it is nothing like it was 10 years ago, in fact, a significant portion of my Facebook feed is "remember 5-10 years ago".

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> Are people still using Facebook in 2026?

Some of the best B2C customers are on FB — willing to spend, low expectations, low maintenance.

If you add IG to the mix, it’s even better.

Your typical HNer does not really fall into “ideal customer” profile for most B2C businesses. Our saving grace is our above average income profile. Other than that, on average we are tolerated rather than sought after (imho).

So basically the suckers stayed?

Facebook marketplace has completely taken over the used sales business in my area (Pacific Northwest). Craigslist is dead, offer up is dead, FB marketplace won.

is this still really the case? I feel like Facebook Marketplace has been significantly more dead than even last year. and it definitely seems completely dead for things like rental listings.

It is huge around Seattle. Nothing else exists for selling goods. There are also private sales groups on FB as well for specialized interests, including illicit home meal delivery services. It seemed like shef.com was going to enter that space and win it but they seemingly abandoned parts of it and pivoted primarily towards weekly Indian meals. Sad, they used to have some amazing West African food.

It's become a defacto forum for a lot of local niche stuff like clubs, schools, non profits, and other special interest groups.

In my area there are groups related to a lot of different outdoor activities , and they share information, trip reports, etc. There might be some other forums for that, but they aren't as widely used or frequently updated.

Yes, though it is much reduced.

I might look at my feed* perhaps 2-3 times a week; despite this, there's a good chance only one of my friends has posted anything new. Unfortunately, that particular friend is also a fairly cliché left-of-the-Cuban-Communist-Party (no, seriously) activist and 95% of her posts are "signal boosting" things I, a Brit living in Germany, do not have any connection to, e.g. "Demexit memes" or Bernie Sander's opinions about anything.

Doesn't help that this trillion dollar corporation still can't handle rotation metadata*, so if I see something and I want to share it, even if it's a good fit for my feed, 50% chance the pic looks stupid the moment I've uploaded it, to which I respond "ugh, never mind then" and forget about trying to solve this and don't post it.

* though the messenger app's web view

I just created my account so I can buy/sell gunplas

> Are people still using Facebook in 2026?

I know this is meant as rhetorical snark, but facebook is by far the most popular social network on the planet, so it just sounds silly.

You're right. But there's a generational aspect to this too.

Younger generations won't touch Facebook. It's seen as a platform for "old" people. So Facebook is on a modest decline. (Enter Instagram and Tiktok and all that to fill the void...)

This is a myth. Unless people in their 20s are now considered old.

Younger western generations perhaps. 3 billion people use Facebook still.

It doesn't sound silly and Facebook is definitely not as relevant as it was 10 years ago.

The data indicates this is just objectively wrong. So yeah, it's silly to suggest people aren't using the most popular social media site in the world.

Your own data indicates that Facebook is as relevant as ever? Show that to meta they would love it!

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