Facebook is so nuts now lmao

Facebook has announced a new (three step!) plan to get young people back, but is that even possible? And what is even going on on fb these days, AI slop has run rampant and all the 90 year olds are falling for it. So what went wrong with FB - and can they ever actually get young people back? We've got all the insane details on this, Scroll Deep, the only show NOT made out of AI slop.

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[Evanz]

I remember hearing that Facebook was identified as prioritising showing comments with “angry”🤬 reactions higher than any other reaction, trying to get people arguing with each other and highlighting negativity over positive stuff.

From that point on, I pretty much new it was a platform worth abandoning.

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why is Benedict dressed as a banana in pajama

[lisahoshowsky]

I really dislike that social media as a whole has really swerved away from connecting people to friends and loved ones while also connecting them to new people, and more and more into shilling creator *content* and of course ultimately advertising. I don’t want more “content” from more of my social media accounts, I want connections.

[scrbusaucuparia]

I’m a gen Z born in 2000— probably 95% of my peers will tell you they only use Facebook to keep in contact with older family members. I still have an account but I never use it and have absolutely no desire to go back now lol

[shwty]

I’m about to turn 24, I wish my feed looked like this. Instead it’s just old friends getting pregnant, engaged or graduating uni. I made a fb when I was 10 to play FarmVille. My favourite pasta is rigatoni.

[Ryanblairfolk]

Facebooks biggest flaw is that as a company it's reactive. It doesn't have anything forward thinking it's just reacting to it's declining popularity. If it had implemented some of these changes like the clamp down on news it might have stopped it from becoming such a toxic platform and burned it's reputation.

[msjkramey]

Isn't skibidi toilet Gen Alpha? Some Gen Z "kids" are 27 now lol

[TheStanishStudios]

The only thing I use on FB these days is the Marketplace

[mammajamma]

It's TERRIBLE!!!! All I see on there are ads and promoted pages. I have no idea what's going on in any of my friends' lives.

[Oliver_Saer]

I was born in '98 so while I fit the technical definition of Gen-Z, I grew up as the youngest in the family so have more in common with Millennials. I stopped using Facebook for about 5 years and only came back in the last year or so because my mum got sad that I could never see any of her posts (nevermind that most of the posts either included things I was present to witness first-hand or she regaled for me in real life, mum sad = bad).

This then evolved to me turning on the cross-post of my Instagram feed to my Facebook feed because, again, my mum would get sad that my posts weren't in the feed of her app of choice. I don't actively use Facebook, I just scan it every so often for posts from my family and drop the obligatory like/love/haha to acknowledge that I saw it. It makes them happy and it doesn't take much from me to do it. I see Facebook as the internet's retirement home, but then people only a couple years older than me still use Facebook as one of their primary social media apps.

Point is, being kind of in-between generations can make you feel like you don't really fit in with either camp.

[Vsualyz]

As an old person, I didn't even like facebook when I was a young person. I don't think it can be saved.

[momob]

I seriously doubt the number of active users websites like Facebok claims. They tend to stretch that number based on tehcnicality so example, I don't use facebook, but I occasionally have to begrudgingly use messenger because that's the best way to contact someone and I'm sure Facebook counts me as an active user. Also the main issue is IMO is younger people don't want to be on the same website as their fmily. I'm a millenial and a key reason I left was family drama and lack of privacy from my family. I think people of different ages need their own space on the internet to hangout with their peers. And I guarantee you when Gen Alpha grows up in the next 5 years Tik Tok will be the new Boomer social media with all the OLD Gen Z'ers on it (who are btw in their early to late 20s ) and something new would take it's place.

[heykota]

the only thing i do on facebook is post pictures of a holiday or something and then my distant family members will comment something like "wow you should really visit this one place" while im already back home from the holiday

[davidlisteresq]

I deleted my Facebook recently as for some reason instead seeing my friends post stuff (maybe they didn't) I got loads of suggested posts about: flat earth, anti-science, anti-"woke" BS. No idea how that happened as I don't like any of those things.

[carololiveira]

Facebook already has Instagram for young people. It’s okay to have one app for one target audience and one app for another. It’s okay, ideal even, for an app to focus on a specific kind of thing. Their mistake, which has been for years now, is wanting to offer everything and have everyone on every app. It’s entitled desperation. And it shows! Not to mention, it ruins the apps.
As a collective, I think we’re also so tired of and overwhelmed by social media and the state they are in now. Why would I want another one?

[motornaut]

Gen Z is 1997-2012, which is an insane window considering the gap between people born 1997-2007 and 2008-2012

[elisa]

I only use facebook for the groups function. that's the only thing they've got going for them everything else is garbage.
The layout/interface also makes zero sense to me and is so messy

[lolcookiebetty]

i only have Facebook to stalk my professors tbh

[xdanx]

AI, draw me a 1940s British man who just woke up in his PJs on his rocket ship orbiting Earth please

[heatherdalton]

I deleted Facebook a long time ago and would never go back