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random observations: have noticed for a year+ that the behaviors / trends / content that do the best here track closest to early Facebook than to any other current platform (X, TikTok, Insta).

why?

i think there's an exhaustion with performative social and instead people crave low-stakes, casual spaces where they can share random thoughts and just connect. 

farcaster offers that to a lot of users today; the most common pieces of feedback:

- from the older generation, "it reminds me of the early internet"

- from the younger generation, "its for posting whatever is on my mind, which can be harder to do on other platforms. magic internet friends."

for the millennials, it offers a brand new network. they're not posting to friends or colleagues; they're posting to their followers most of whom they've never met before.

for college students, they never had a public digital space like Facebook. they only had instagram (performative feed) or snapchat (private messaging).

the other similarity with Facebook is that it had Facebook Platform: set of tools / product for third-party devs to create their own apps that could access data in Facebook (gifts, marketplace, events, video, games; honestly worth studying the history of Facebook Platform).

wait… has anyone checked the Facebook mobile app recently???

go look at it and report back

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It’s not very goal oriented is probably the one liner- more like life oriented.

> one guy posts about taking his mom on vacation because she had kids as a young single mom

ive used it for a couple months dont know what you're talking abt

In your QC you mentioned early Facebook, which is not what FB that would feel like without ads 

My FB feed today is still highly performative: either in terms of performative political posturing or performative lifestyle humble brags, etc

I've stopped using Facebook because it's extraordinarily difficult to identify posts from actual people I know versus all of the ads and suggestions etc. in the feed

For a while I still kept using it to try to keep up with friends and stuff, but eventually just became almost impossible to actually see what they were posting

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Checked on Assistant #1's phone, this was the second thing in the feed.
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I've been targeted, and I'm ok with it. Also I didn't click it so it doesn't charge you, so you can add 1 impression to your analytics.

opened it for the first time in months (only use it for marketplace) and was hit with this weird and confusing screen. i’ve never tried to have a professional facebook profile. i had to go through two more screens to turn it off lol.

I checked desktop because I don't feel like reinstalling my app.

bunch of friends complaining about whatever and

(you're not gonna believe this)

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I don’t think I have the courage and nerves to do it lol🌹

I just love going to the market place Looking at my dream bike 😭😭

open app…then pushes me to try FB dating lollll 😆

I checked FB today and my moms still there posting food pics

Facebook is a great app
I really like the interface, and it rarely has any glitches

One of my favorite internet days were on facebook tbh,

I literally was myself and could share my thoughts like they were valid.

I’m feeling that comeback here on farcaster and you are so right.