Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over

Meta displayed a chart showing that the “percent of time spent viewing content posted by ‘friends’ ” has declined in the past two years, from twenty-two per cent to seventeen per cent on Facebook, and from eleven per cent to seven per cent on Instagram.
Yeah. By their design. If they would allow user control over what shows up in their feed, mine would prioritize friends' content. I'm not the one choosing to turn my feed jnto AI slop based on my alleged interest in the topic.
- One of the appeals of Bluesky (for now) is the Followimg feed that presents comments exclusively from people I follow, in chronological order.
  Crazy that Facebook can't deliver this anymore
  
  They can, but choose not to
  
  The technical complexity of showing a chronological feed of posts from subscribed accounts? Are you asking for one to scoff at thou peasant? You might as well request a toaster without bluetooth BAHAHAHA! BEGONE!
  
  That's not a can't, it's a get-paid-a-shitload-of-money-to-not.
- This is exactly why I deleted Facebook and Instagram. It no longer served it’s only purpose.
- This is ironic because all the 40 year old chicks who are career users of FB since college, all cite the same justification for continuing to use it: "But all my photos and the current happenings of my friends".
  If you showed them epirical data that only 17% of what they consume on the platform is actually even tangentially related to their friends and family, maybe they'd finally decouple themselves from FB.
  
  And all the photos look like shit because they’ve been recompressed in JPEG, and all the metadata is just gone.
  
  It’s worse with instagram. I debated switching to Pixelfed at first because no one I know is on it. But then I realized I barely see friends content on insta, so it’s not really different, at least on Pixelfed I don’t see adds and only see posts from people I follow.
- This. I have to go out of my way to even see my wife's posts (well, before I deleted Facebook).
  2/3rds of my feed are ads.
  This metric is bullshit because they fucked up the waters.
  
  Try blocking her, the algorithm will prioritize her posts if you do.
- I just scrolled Facebook, and out of the 44 posts I came across 10 were from friends or pages I had liked. The rest was sponsored slop, or "you should follow this person" type posts.
  No wonder the social interaction is down, when less than a quarter of posts I come across are from the reason to have Facebook.
  I'm not friends with corporations, so don't push me their shit.
  Prime Facebook was 2007 - 2011/12. When they started algorithm-ing friends posts, that heralded the end. I don't care that I haven't interacted with friend XYZ for a long while, I'm still interested in seeing their stuff equally as much as friend ABC who I interact with daily
- Right? 'ZOMG users aren't viewing the contents of their friends!', yeah, because you hide that shit behind ads and promoted content, dumb-ass.
- Also if I was just looking at friends’ content, it would be empty haha. Couldn’t scroll infinitely.
- I miss when the Instagram homepage showed all your friends’ new posts before it showed recommended stuff. Now it’s all interwoven
  
  It's not even new stuff. Last I had looked (a couple years ago) it would show me friendss posts from last week with no sign of anything new, and I knew they had posted newer things than that. It was completely unusable. I'd see the same stale old posts for days
- That's the reason I log into Facebook like once every week or two.
  I like to make sure someone didn't die, and I miss the funeral.
- you've got a point. they're trying to redefine what "friends" are. and they're succeeding.

Yes, his offerings of "social media" are over. And that's great.

You heard it, the robot said we can go outside again.

An opinion from the guy who thinks the metaverse is a viable product? Yeah I'll pass

Mark Zuckerberg Says For-Profit Social Media Is Over
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- Exactly this. "We have maxed out the amount of money we can extract from people and have reached diminishing returns on profitability."
  Why can't anyone just create a billion dollar company that makes something people like and then be happy they can consistently earn $200m per year? Maybe ask the people what kinds of features they want and improve the service to increase the value to users once you need something for your staff to do when the product is complete.
  
  Large corporations buy up disruptive companies like that
  
  Because modest returns don't attract investment, so whoever set it up would have to fund the startup out of pocket and never go public or sell the company off. Not quite impossible, but very unlikely (unless the world changes and investors start getting more sensible about profits).
  
  Yeah, if I was Zuck, I would've left it more or less as it was in the 2010s, and then moved on to making adjunct services to create a Google/Yahoo-like ecosystem. Oh, and open the API so interesting services could be built on it. Instead, they maximized profitability and bought their way to an ecosystem.

He should know, he's the one that put a shotgun in its mouth over a decade ago.

Has been over for a while. Unless you call ads social media. It’s all ads.
- Right. They got greedy and made it more shitty for profit. Users left and now its one of these free weekly papers with ads and classified ads. Now they are considering filling the gap of missing user content with AI so it will be a circular system without humans at one point.

He should know, he fucking killed it

Centralized for profit social media should be over.

"Social media is dead, and we killed it."
- "How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us?"
- Killed it, as in they were awesome and won, or as in unalived. The quote by itself could mean either.

It's such an easy fix too. Create a separate wall that only contains your friends' OC (not reshared garbage).
It's about 3 posts per day for someone with 200 friends, but I'd take it.
- So... original, unshittified Facebook?
  
  I'm amazed that's not what FB still is. I apparently bailed before the worst of it because I don't recall seeing random people's posts on my feed.
  
  I wonder if a fediverse version of that would resonate with any of my friends and family. Seems like we are where we started with forums, just strangers respectfully taking about their common interests. Social media is indeed dead.
- Too late for that. We have TikTok now. Everyone needs a new dopamine hit every 3 seconds and god forbid you run out of new things in your feed.
  The era of social media IS over. Even if you make a good one.
  
  check out the Fediverse...
- You actually can nearly do that. Facebook inexplicably showed me how a few weeks ago. If a friend reshares something, you'll see it, but it removes all groups, etc. It was stunning how little content actually comes from friends.
  On the Facebook site (I'm sure it can be done via app, too, but I didn't look), click on the menu near the top right, then click Feeds (under Social). Then click on Friends on the left.
  
  Wow, is does. Thanks for that

So you going to shut down Facebook right Mark? Right Mark?

I would probably think that too if I ran Facebook.

So he's trying to declare Game Over to avoid accountability? Fuck that.
- probably also somehow related to theads being federated

Yeah I wonder who could possibly be responsible for that... Tis a mystery

May I be the first to say..

Over?
Give me your profits, then.

Washed up trend chaser monopolist wannabe millionaire! Of course your social platforms are over: YOU MADE THEM SHIT!

Good. Social media was only ever the corporate commodified communications platforms.

Social media said Mark Zuckerberg was over and sadly I think neither are right.

It's shitty ass hats like zuck that makes me appreciate Lemmy even more. Its the right amount of social media for me.

Thought this was a press release thing... Like: Social media is dead... Now it's "Meta-media" dabs as crowd collectively faints

Hahaha, not a fast learner... Own it bro, FB is over...
- Clearly the solution is to spread more conspiracy theories. People are obviously leaving due to the lack of conspiracy theories.

Bye guys, guess none of us are really here
- I think, therefore I am.

hell yeah! rest in hell
but tbh it’s not, old people love it
- lol you didn't read the article
  
  damnit you got me, i actually did read it afterwards and realised my comment was wrong but then just left it as it has 9 updoots

Well I say Mark Zuckerberg is over.

"your honor, in my defense my website sucks. like really sucks. like try using it for a good purpose. it is inherently evil."

After the android downloads all the data on the Internet, like a dalek.

Has been for a while. If you look at most recent marketing analysis, numbers weren’t like they were peak pandemic and 2016. It was declining since then, you just chilling with bots mostly.

Don’t threaten me with a good time, Mark.