I read “it’s dying” by people on Discord and Reddit all the time, but the numbers prove otherwise. It’s been going up this entire time and sitting over 3 billion MONTHLY ACTIVE USERS!
I feel like the bubble around people on other platforms saying “who uses Facebook anymore lol” is kind of wild given the numbers. Keep in mind these are active users not just abandoned accounts.
A lot of the ones you’re probably thinking of have a useless “stories”-like feature now, which qualifies them as social media.
Man, I sure miss the days when “social” meant you socialized. Now it’s all just “Look at me, look at me! Validate me!”. I realized reading through this thread that I hate what the internet has become, and if the internet is a window into our society, then I guess I hate society too. I never imagined I’d become a misanthrope.