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We're Watching Facebook Die

2024/5/24
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Better Offline
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Facebook's growth metrics are increasingly opaque, and despite launching new products like Threads, its user growth remains stagnant. This suggests a deeper issue with the platform's strategy.
  • Facebook's shift from reporting daily active users to family daily active people obscures the true picture of user engagement.
  • Despite new product launches, Facebook's user growth is minimal.
  • Meta's focus on arbitrary growth metrics like time spent on app and meaningful interactions dictates its strategy, leading to dubious tactics.

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For three years, Facebook's monthly active users have been declining dramatically, with Facebook.com losing 397 million unique monthly visitors since May 2021. In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through how Mark Zuckerberg's abominable growth-at-all-costs mindset has turned Facebook into a dystopia of AI-generated slop, dangerous misinformation and outright pornography, all as a result of Zuckerberg's intentionally harmful approach to social media.

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