Is Facebook doomed? (Alternatively: Is social networking, in general, doomed?)

I use my phone for, uhhh, phone calls, texting and email. Social media I do on my desktop. Hard to fathom people wasting phone time and data on that, but hey.

 

Didn't really think it was cool when it came out, although I was already out of college. Don't think it's cool now, but many people still do. Many are a lot older than college. Never had a fb account. My mom does and many of her friends do. They post pics of their grandkids and each other when they get together for lunch or dinner. Have nieces and nephews who are in college and just out of college and they pretty much post what you did back then.

 

You mean old people use their social media ... to be SOCIAL? Holy crap! What a concept!
I live 9 hours away from my family and have friends from previous stops for work now all over the country. I think Facebook is great to stay in touch. I give zero effs if teens or college students use it or think its cool.

 

It's cool to be social on social media.

I can do without numbskulls trying to be media on social media.

 

I've got a few friends who never got on board, but all my close friends who ever did still use it as much as ever, as far as I can tell. It's probably 10% of my friends list that drive my timeline by posting on a regular basis, but that's fine with me. When I see my "on this day" posts, I realize I used to post a lot more, but I bet I check it just as often as I always have, and I would guess I comment on other people's posts roughly as much as I ever have.

I'm FB friends with plenty of sources — probably one reason I'm more careful about what I post — and that's often helpful. It keeps me in the loop on what they're up to, and it's an easy way to quickly get in touch, even when they're overseas, which is important for me.

 

I've chopped the hell out of my FB friends list.

At one point, I was around 400, but that was driven by some stupid game. After I quit that foolishness, I chopped it down to around 100, mainly lacrosse friends and old gfs.

I'm down to ten friends now.

But... one good thing about FB: there are many special interest Marketplace FB groups, like history books and wargames. I find it far better than eBay.

 

Facebook remains my main link to old, displaced friends, which is especially useful to me as my young life remains only 50 or so miles away. We have a newsgroup for my hometown where people don't get political or snarky, or if anyone does, they get corrected very quickly.

The chat is useful to keep in touch with former journo cohorts. I have 194 friends, with no real urge to purge anyone on there right now.

I've done what I can to limit political engagement on there. Limit my news sites mainly to locals. Don't get into flame wars with strangers.

EDIT: Now, Twitter ... that just tends to piss me off. I'm seriously considering cutting the cord on that.

 

I've written a lot of local stories on FB. Not that I think Facebook's going out of style any time soon but it just might be time to cut and paste the material into Google docs.

 

This just popped onto the feed.

 

I think Zuckerberg is only slightly less dangerous than Trump and he needs to stay away from politics.

 

Hmmm.

Maybe a world run by billionaire teenage app designers is a bad idea.

 

"You elected Donald Trump. You're floating the names Oprah Winfrey and Mark Zuckerberg. You have forfeited any claim on ruling us from now on."

Signed, World