Social media is on the decline. Instagram is all ads. No one's posting on BeReal. TikTok is for influencers. The new place for sharing: group chats.

It’s not just you — no one is posting on social media anymore::Social media is on the decline. Instagram is all ads. No one’s posting on BeReal. TikTok is for influencers. The new place for sharing: group chats.

  • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
    61·
    1 year ago

    but people who for example were active on Facebook 10 years ago still exist,

    What happens when they die?

    • MNByChoice@midwest.socialEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Posting mostly drops to zero. Sometimes a family member will post on their account.

      Death of the account holder has not been well managed.

      Edit: what happens to the account after the person dies is not well managed.

    • DefederateLemmyMl@feddit.nlEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      So are you suggesting that posts are down because the people that were making them are dying off? I have my doubts about that one.

      Facebook’s demographic isn’t skewed enough towards old people and it hasn’t existed for long enough for that to be a significant effect.

      I mean, it isn’t as if octogenarians and septagenarians were making the bulk of Facebook posts 10 years ago, is it? The bulk of the people on Facebook are currently in the 18-44 range, and the 65+ group is actually a very small fraction. Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/376128/facebook-global-user-age-distribution/

      I would also like to remind you that Facebook started as a way to connect college kids in 2005. Those kids are now in their 30s or early 40s and very much still around. They’ve just given up on Facebook.

    • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      You’re talking about people in their 30s and 40s. Death won’t be much of an issue for a few decades.