Comment by donatj
8 hours ago
Do people under the age of sixty even use traditional social media anymore? Do we have actual stats?
I am in my late thirties so surely out of touch, but am friends with people in their mid twenties and frankly I don't know anyone who spends any significant time on anything other than TikTok. I guess you could call TikTok "social media", but it wouldn't fit my old person definition.
I think pretty much everyone below the age of 60 is aware that Facebook/Instagram/etc is just slop now. You don't even see your friend stuff. You just see slop. I use Facebook primarily for marketplace these days, but when I do scroll my feed, it's all like weird east asian AI slop. Women cutting open impossibly large fruit, fake tartar removal, fake videos of fights.
Literally nothing that compels me to stay on the site like I hear people on here talk about.
>I think pretty much everyone below the age of 60 is aware that Facebook/Instagram/etc is just slop now.
Sorry, but to me you just revealed you don't speak to many women.
I'm married with children, work from home, and weeks away from my 40s. So yes. Not a big revelation.
I have more than a couple nieces and nephews in their late teens/early 20s though and if you ask them, social media is for old people.