I skipped those, but I’m about to ruin whatever new platform my kids get in to.
A lot of us are, yeah. Even with young whippersnappers like yourself fizzing around on your electrified skateboards and what have you, I’m pretty sure the average age here on Lemmy is closer to 40 than 30 🤷
I’m pretty sure we’re mostly disgruntled Millennials and Gen-X’ers.
Anyhow, it looks like TikTok might finally be heading towards some sort of ban or regulation in the US, so maybe it’ll get killed by the Boomers but in a different way.
Nah. If you started skipping trends already you are free. Just use what you like lol
once the boomers get there and start liking it, that’s when you know it’s about to reach peak and crash hard. my parents are talking about reddit. case in point.
In contrast to the others, Reddit decided to kill itself off before most Boomers have even heard of it:-).
The boomers I know haven’t found reddit yet so there is still time. It’s not that boomers are on a platform, it’s when boomers like my parents get there that shit starts to spiral out.
There are a lot of Boomers trickling into Reddit, and they are killing it even faster with mass reporting people.
They go into subs that shit on Boomers for being themselves, and since Reddit hands out site bans for anything now it ends up destroying a lot of accounts.
I really hope they never find Lemmy.
It do… It… It do be hittin differently tho.
But Facebook still exists.
Yeah, but have you seen the state of it recently? It’s a shell of its former self
Maybe but it’s almost a $2trillion dollar company. Might be a shell, but it’s popular.
that’s Meta, not Facebook. I’d say now FB is one of their least valuable assets.
As someone who joined Facebook way back when it was brand spanking new to the public: It’s always sucked. I don’t even remember a single person who chose it over MySpace until way later on when they added games to FB.
I don’t understand the “killed Facebook” thing either. I haven’t used Facebook in almost 10 years but as far as I know it’s still printing money.
Killed Facebook because the people who were into it and enjoyed using it… stopped using it 10 years ago. If I were to log into my Facebook account right now, I would see my mum posting Sovereign Citizen stuff. My aunty sharing photo after photo of my nephews and nieces. My other aunty talking about her later life crisis holidays to South Africa. And advertisement after advertisement for random junk.
If I’m lucky, one of my friends will have posted something like “Photo from Butterfly Effect reunion last night. These guys still kick ass”
“Facebook” is alive and well but it’s a different product than we knew and, whether intended or not, target audience is boomers and terminally online jerkoffs.
Yep, it still exists. Like a marionetted corpse waltzing around selling garage sale items and finding lost dogs.
I think TikTok is at its peak and will be sad if it goes to shit like Insta and Facebook. Although I am a Gen Xer it currently fills the holes that Twitter and Reddit left empty…I see what is trending, cool stuff, news, cute animals and broaden my horizons with lgbtq and black issues. Of course it’s not the same experience for everyone but I find it pretty fulfilling a lot of times as social media, entertainment etc.
Maybe you could pickup a hobby. Or better yet, you could go talk to someone face to face.
