My daughter, age 13, takes pokes and me for being on FB with the other “old people”.
OTOH, she and her friends enjoy playing with their Oculi (is that plural?). I regularly ask her what social media sites she’s using as confirmation for my investments.
My kids are about 30 and are pretty regular users of Facebook, along with Messenger for phone calls and Marketplace for buying and selling stuff. But it is certainly true that younger kids (my nieces and nephews for instance) turn their nose up at Facebook (although Instagram is ok). Their social media use is a bit of Snapchat, a bit of TikTok, Instagram, Messenger, YouTube, etc.
However, I wonder whether they won’t eventually come over to the evil FB empire, when they want to keep in touch with a wider group, like work colleagues, extended family, their school reunion, etc. Just because teenagers won’t use Facebook doesn’t mean they won’t eventually use it, as they grow older.
It’s hard to get a feel for this sort of thing. But is there really anything like Facebook that has a network effect that is big enough to become a threat to Facebook? I don’t see TikTok or Snapchat as really having that potential, or anyone else, for that matter. But I’m open to ideass…
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