I mean I still use it sometimes, I just don’t use that app. It used to be one of my heaviest battery drains even though I didn’t even use it more than a few times a week.
Comment on Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos in your camera roll you haven’t yet shared
Pirate@feddit.org 13 hours agoMore people use facebook today than they used in 2015 when you were using it.
About 3x more people.
realitista@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
jaybone@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
Is that mainly in India and Southeast Asia? For some people there Facebook is “the internet”, almost like a modern day AOL. Zuck would jizz himself if he could send you free trial CDs twice a week packed with his spyware.
Pirate@feddit.org 11 hours ago
This page has all the information you might need on the topic. India is on top, but the US is a solid second place.
www.demandsage.com/facebook-statistics/
jaybone@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
194 million US users? That’s got to be bullshit. That’s almost two thirds of the population. Even if they claimed half of the population, I would still call bullshit.
Maybe I would believe 1/2 of people over 60. And that goes down as we lower the age. If we’re talking under 30 years old, I might believe 1/5, maybe.
These fake numbers are how they defraud advertisers and data broker scammers.
Almonds@mander.xyz 10 hours ago
Facebook is a damn near a necessity in the area I live because no one wants to host their own websites. I’ve still not given in to making an account, but I’m starting to feel the struggle of not being able to contact small businesses.
So, I can imagine some of those users are multiples of the same person if they also have an account for their business
thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
some additional relevant statistics
united states barely saw 1% growth year over year in the United States and are projecting that growth to continue to slow.
India has nearly 3x the users of the United States. the u.s. is still second because it’s the country it started in, but it’s not far ahead of the 3rd and 4th place countries. India is an extreme outlier.
unfortunately they don’t break down the age demographic by region, but I’d bet that if we specifically look at daily active users in the United States the age demo would skew much older.
so, it seems like it’s similar to what many fast food restaurants have been experiencing lately. the growth opportunities in the United States dried up so the decided to push like hell everywhere else. i bet the growth they saw in India over the last decade was explosive. probably bigger than anything they had ever seen before. bigger than when it was still growing in the u.s… meanwhile they protect that over the next decade in the u.s. they’ll see maybe 8% user growth and that’s pretty optimistic.
so we probably won’t actually see much Facebook marketing in the u.s… the only way they can capture more u.s users is by buying more apps, like when they bought Instagram.