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That is a weird way of describing it. Teens aren’t “abandoning” FB & X; they never signed up to begin with. And why would that? They are platforms built for and filled with millennials+.
It’s pretty clear. Facebook is now full of crap created by artificial intelligence (and not only).
463k people actually liked that photo?
It’s a video
That’s even worse
Isn’t whatsapp another data mining app for Facebook?
Yes, although to nowhere near the same extent as Facebook and Instagram.
The chats are E2EE using Signal’s encryption protocol, so very good.
But they will certainly mine everything else they can get. They may not know what you’re saying, but they do know who you’re talking to, when you’re doing it, your contacts, your profile pic, how often you send images, etc. any web links with tracking info embedded in the URL will likely be tracked too, once you open them.
This still baffles me. What’s Facebook’s end game here? They are built on data collection and spying, but they own an app that is E2EE.
If you go only by the metadata, they know all your friends, their phone numbers, your location history, when do you chat, with whom, how often and how long. And I’m fairly sure they index conversation in some form.
Just location history can paint a decent picture of what you do, where do you go, what do you like, which friends are nearby, etc… and all of that was implemented like 15+ years ago, imagine what they can do today with AI. It’s fair to say FB knows more about you then you do (FB, IG, Wapp…). And to be blunt, it could probably determine what ppls shit smells like, judging by all the pictures of a meal they post on IG.
The metadata. The message content is E2E, but the data about the content isn’t necessarily e2e.
Good point. Figuring out who is talking to who is valuable info for them too.
Honestly, I think they just saw that Whatsapp was becoming the standard chat app for basically all of the world outside of the US and China, and just didn’t want anybody else to have it.
Additionally, metadata is better than no data, I guess.
A decade ago is when teens stopped using Facebook, unless they’re counting Instagram in those metrics?
Look at the graph in the article: it’s the only newsworthy piece. Assuming the numbers are legit, the lines crossed about 6 years ago.
Of course the x axis not having any labeled points there doesn’t fill me with confidence. Perhaps it’s just two points for each and they drew a straight line
This is news? The article’s own graph puts this about 6 years ago
Okay? But what does Whatsapp has anything to do with the other? DM?
I don’t consider WhatsApp social media.
WhatsApp has channels (public feeds centered around topics, a bit like microblogging), communities (groups about a subject, much like Facebook Groups), and updates (temporal video/photo statuses to share with your friends). You might only use it for DM, but it has much bigger aspirations.
WhatsApp? The instant messenger boomers use on their phones?
Damn, who saw that coming.
Spotted the iMessage user who routinly cries about dot colour
Most countries stopped using SMS ages ago. WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram are ubiquitous.
In most of Europe WhatsApp is synonymous with text messaging.
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Teens are on Facebook?
Gee I wish they had just left Facebook as a way to share photos and updates with friends and family, instead of turning it into a viral content clusterfuck to capture the youth audience. It didn’t even work.
Weird, considering facebook does all the shit those other sites do.
People go where their friends are. Their grandparents are on Facebook.
I guess I’ll never know what the kids are saying ever again because there’s no way I’m installing either of those apps.
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