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0 pointsineedasername4y ago0 comments

Maybe their desktop traffic wouldn't have tanked so much if they'd kept it a richer experience, and continue to enrich it. Instead they abandoned it completely once traffic patterns tipped towards mobile.

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scarface744y ago

How many people really use desktops that much in 2021 for personal use? Facebook is already seen as being “for old people”.

ineedasernameOP4y ago

78% of homes have a computer in them. [0] I don't know anyone who does not use a PC for personal use, and my non-work social circles are not at all techie dominated.

Also I'm not talking about 2021: I'm talking about years ago when Facebook moved away from prioritizing the PC platform. Maybe it wouldn't have mattered, I don't know, but when FB became a primary entry point to the internet for many people, and FB then mostly ignored desktop experience, it certainly accelerated any decline already in place. But had they enriched that experience, maybe there'd still be a much stronger following there.

[0]https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2021/computer...

scarface744y ago

55% of all web traffic worldwide comes from mobile.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/277125/share-of-website-...

And considering that most people spend 8 hours a day at work, how much personal usage on the web comes from the desktop? How many younger people are using computers for personal use - especially if it a shared family computer.

Heck I am a software developer and my personal computer is just sitting in a corner as a Plex server. I haven’t used it for anything productive in a year and a half and that was for updating my resume.

Besides that, Facebook got more popular because of mobile when everyone had a camera in their pocket with GPS when they csn post the highlights of their life. Not to mention WhatsApp is all about communicating real time and Instagram is about sharing pictures.

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Brendinooo4y ago

Anecdata, but I'm teaching a coding class for 10-12 year olds and most of them don't know their way around a laptop. Most of their work has been done on tablets or maybe phones.

It wouldn't surprise me at all to learn that huge chunks of demographics don't really use desktops or laptops all that much.

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scarface744y ago

How many people really use desktops that much in 2021 for personal use? Facebook is already seen as being “for old people”.

ineedasernameOP4y ago

78% of homes have a computer in them. [0] I don't know anyone who does not use a PC for personal use, and my non-work social circles are not at all techie dominated.

[0]https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2021/computer...

scarface744y ago

55% of all web traffic worldwide comes from mobile.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/277125/share-of-website-...

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Brendinooo4y ago

Anecdata, but I'm teaching a coding class for 10-12 year olds and most of them don't know their way around a laptop. Most of their work has been done on tablets or maybe phones.

It wouldn't surprise me at all to learn that huge chunks of demographics don't really use desktops or laptops all that much.

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