Meta is starting to ramp up its growth-hacking tactics for Threads in a bid to boost engagement on the Twitter competitor.
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Unfortunately there’s a lot of things that communicate only via Facebook, and they’ve decimated Craigslist so it’s the only place to sell crap.
I don’t deal with any business that uses solely facebook as means for communication. I don’t miss them, the platform does a bit less and things get less enshitified. Craigslist isn’t that bad, I still use them all the time, people are much better than the flakes I used to deal with on facebook marketplace. There will be a federated classifieds soon, I’m sure, and the people will regain that corner of the market again.
lot of dumbass small businesses using it when they should have a website
Which is so dumb, making a website isn’t that hard with all the tools that will do it for you and are advertised on every pod that has ever been cast.
That’s true, but on the otther hand, nobody GenZ or onwards checks for websites anymore. Most people will look up a business on instagram first, so I don’t blame them, especially small businesses, when they operate on social media primarily.
What? Myself and most of my friends are Gen Z and nobody I know does this. Google Maps is always the first place I look, and 70% of the time I click through to the business’s actual site.
Hell, most of us barely use IG at all anymore
That’s great then. I’m a musician so not a business per se, but I need to promote my music and act as a business in that regard. My anecdotal experience - Even though I have a linktree as my “website”, most people who look me up when I post my music search my social media profiles instead. From the business pov, it makes sense because getting a follow on social media means long term visibility and engagement, instead of viewing a website one time and forgetting about it; unless you have a newsletter people can sign up for (if they even bother). So I agree that websites should still be a thing, on the other hand I also understand how small businesses choose to operate on social media.
Unfortunately there’s a lot of things that communicate only via Facebook, and they’ve decimated Craigslist so it’s the only place to sell crap.
Undead marketers?
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Yeah huh!
Let me explain,
You study a college, everyone has a Facebook account so it makes sense for teachers to just notify students through Facebook. If everyone has a Facebook account and you dont, its your problem. Noone is going to message you via email just for you.
A different example, You go to an Office. There is a huge notice board. Its filled with notices and there is a huge queue. The office management has not made it digital so the staff members themselves setup a Facebook page and post the pics of notices. Because they know how to use Facebook and everyone around them use Facebook. So what kind of fool would reject that convinience in looking up notices and go queue up in there?
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I think you missed the point and focused only on the examples provided
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It’s not so much about Meta itself but a social network can be very useful. It just so happens to be that the most popular one currently is Facebook. If someone decides they want to use and would benefit from the services a social network has to offer then naturally they’re going to want to use the one that almost all the people they know are already using. No point using social network B while all your friends and family are only using social network A. That would be like wanting to party/socialise in the city at night but only going to empty bars and then scratching your head about why you have no one to talk to. You go to the bar that’s popular. The choice of which one is already made for you if that’s the kind of thing you want to do.
Don’t get me wrong, I spend about a minute on Facebook a month, I find it very useful for events especially. Given the convenience of the tools available, I don’t expect people to message me directly when they’re organising a medium to large gathering.
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My best friend is planning her hens do and she invited me only on Facebook and didn’t reach out to me personally. Would you say she is an acquaintance at best?
Because we are poor and that is an affortable institution
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Sounds like a made up problem!
Even in your example, absolutely no one forced anyone to use it as a “social media” app. If it is a matter of convenience to access the notices, or talk to teacher, then use it like how you would use school/work apps such as canvas/blackboard/slack/teams apps. Stop using it beyond it’s purpose. Which is to say, add “friends” if you have to so that you can access notices or messages from your teacher or whatever. But doom scrolling on clickbait and keeping tabs on Exes shouldn’t be done.
Thats what I totally avoid
There’s a way to opt out… I did it six years ago. No regrets at all.
I don’t see any ads for threads, because I haven’t used Facebook for like 5 years now lol
there’s no way to opt out
Yes there is a way to opt out. Just opt out of Facebook and Meta products all together.
If not everyone using messenger, I would. I’m not using Facebook tho, but it doesn’t help much
Everyone has an excuse but you’ve gotta start somewhere. There are probably hundreds of ways to message people and we would all survive if Meta and it’s products vanished.
I use Facebook Messenger but not Facebook or Treads, just set up bare minimum profile and highest privacy settings.
Just use the Messenger app or messenger.facebook.com then, you won’t see Threads promotions nor be exposed to other Facebook stuff
I believe you can disable your Facebook account but still use Messenger, couple of my friends don’t have a profile but can still message.
Sure there is… stop using Facebook.
Or be European.
Norwegians are European and they don’t have the ban on Threads.
Now I think they should be using VPNs.
I’m just surprised that people are surprised that meta will promote platform A (that they own) on platform B (that they own).
I opted out almost 8 years ago be deleting my Facebook account. I would highly recommend.
I was just about to say either deleting your account or not using the service is an opt-out, but you beat me to it.
Arent threads suposed to support federation is rhis meta just trying to take over and kill the only credible threat they face?
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What’s wrong with that…? Is anyone surprised?
Yeah if anything they arent aggressive enough. They should force all IG users to gave threads or even replace all IG comments with threads ‘threads’.
They do it on Instagram too. I barely use Instagram as it is, but I have noticed that it’s suddenly loaded with “recommended threads” or something dumb
For me it’s been injected into the feed. At first I didn’t realize it wasn’t instagram when clicking on the photo.
Be the change most of us want to see and the world needs. Stop using their products and making excuses for why you need them.
What’s Threads?
No, nevermind, I don’t want to know.
Agreed. That movie was quite disturbing to me as a youth…
I can show you some Threads videos from Mexico recorded in a very low quality camera
No need to opt out if you never opted in.
I have Instagram because in my country it’s the only way to contact some businesses. And they are mingling threads posts in between the IG posts.
That’s a great way to make situation worse.
The worse part is that it looks like a screenshot of Threads, but when you look closely it’s actually an IFrame of the whole Threads post with a link to go there and a tiny text advertisement to activate your Threads account.
Well… Of course they are.
They’re also doing the same on Instagram.
