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    U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison Research says

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    1293 points rmason | 12 comments | 06 Mar 19 20:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.793s | source | bottom
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    JohnFen ◴[06 Mar 19 21:49 UTC] No.19323209[source]▶
    I'm not sure losing that age group has much to do with Facebook's scandals.

    This is purely anecdotal, but with my daughter and her social group, Facebook stopped being a service of interest to them quite a while back. Not because of data issues, but because (to use my daughter's words) "Facebook is for businesses and old people".

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    1. Leace ◴[06 Mar 19 21:54 UTC] No.19323265[source]▶
    What does your daughter use to connect with friends? Just curious.
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    2. basil-rash ◴[06 Mar 19 21:58 UTC] No.19323303[source]▶
    My brother is in that age group and he uses discord and normal text message groups.
    3. xeromal ◴[06 Mar 19 21:59 UTC] No.19323314[source]▶
    Probably less of a suite of tech like FB and more a bunch of small single-purpose apps like snapchat and instagram.
    4. trophycase ◴[06 Mar 19 22:01 UTC] No.19323333[source]▶
    not OP. But instagram, tik tok, vsco, snapchat
    5. the_pwner224 ◴[06 Mar 19 22:05 UTC] No.19323371[source]▶
    Not parent, but I am a college student at a large university in the US. Instagram is just huge, for the entire [university] population here. Snapchat is still used but not as common - Instagram is eating up Snapchat's userbase. GroupMe is used by the entire population for group chatting, and many males (especially more 'nerdy' guys) use Discord as the preferred general chat application.
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    6. JohnFen ◴[06 Mar 19 22:42 UTC] No.19323689[source]▶
    > What does your daughter use to connect with friends?

    Steam and SMS, primarily. WhatsApp, too, but to a lesser degree.

    And, probably, something else that I'm not aware of.

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    7. throwaway66666 ◴[06 Mar 19 22:51 UTC] No.19323787[source]▶
    Steam? Can you please elaborate, I am getting old I didn't even know steam had a social component. (except people leaving reviews, or posting to game forums about parts of the game)
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    8. luminiferous ◴[06 Mar 19 22:55 UTC] No.19323819{3}[source]▶
    Steam has a pretty robust messaging system including multi-user rooms and voice chat, etc. They're directly competing with Discord on that front now. There's groups and communities and other social components as well, though I'm not as familiar with those.
    9. toomanybeersies ◴[06 Mar 19 23:31 UTC] No.19324079[source]▶
    Snapchat is the most annoying platform I have ever experienced for messaging. Disappearing messages (with no option for them to stick around) is literally an anti-feature.

    Instagram is just annoying, because it's an image sharing platform being used as a messaging platform. I actually get annoyed when people message me on Instagram, because it means that their messages to me are scattered over different platforms.

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    10. saberience ◴[07 Mar 19 01:00 UTC] No.19324680{3}[source]▶
    You can keep any message you want by tapping on it. So yeah, you clearly haven't used SnapChat much.
    11. TheAceOfHearts ◴[07 Mar 19 06:06 UTC] No.19325901[source]▶
    Nerdy girls are on Discord too, although the ratio is skewed heavily in favor of men, at least based on my experience.
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