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Originally Posted by Mystic Mock
Isn't Facebook the fourth most viewed site in the world or something like that?
And personally I wouldn't mind a more Forum feel coming to Social Media with smaller communities forming, but I honestly don't believe that it will ever happen due to Facebook and Twitter's dominance in the Social Media space.
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Facebook is still huge but if you compare it to, say, it's 5 year peak - EVERYONE was on there, from your most devout MAGA to your most colourful progressive. Your 13 year old nephew and your 80 year old nan. Bob posting jokes from the work van and June the champagne socialist on her first-class flight to help out in Africa. Everyone.
It's still massively viewed, but the demographics have (inevitably?) shifted in one clear direction. There's now quite clearly, "The Sort Of Folk Who Use Facebook", and the vast majority of people either still have an old account kicking about that they check in on every few months, or simply don't have an account at all.
Twitter will go the same way. It'll still get engagement, but it'll all be from the "lol cry more" Brexit/MAGA trolls, the melting pot effect of it will lessen because it relies on conflict. There will be no one to argue with. Just a circle-jerk.
As often is the case -- TiBB can show you an early microcosm of this effect. We hit boiling point of engagement a few years back and now it's 90% echo chamber and that's increasing.
The other thing that you'll notice is...
When there's no one around to be irritated by the wind-up... the frequency of posts drops off.
And people (everyone, let's be honest) are getting bored now.
That'll happen on Twitter.