[grinsekatze]

I think many people that are moving away from Facebook move away from social networks in general. Personally, I am not interested at all in a Facebook replacement. I gave a couple a try, but quickly realized that spending time on these social networks is even more boring than Facebook, especially if none of your friends are on there.. and therefor a total waste of my time. If I need to communicate with friends I do this “directly” via WhatsApp or email.

[pmlnr]

I don't know who's downvoting this; this is an actual trend I'm experiencing as well. Those who leave facebook tend to leave for good, and not replace it with anything. I'm yet to decide if it's good or not; I definitely want homepages (not strictly blogs) back, hence see https://indieweb.org , but I know most will just simply walk away from social media completely.

[TheOtherHobbes]

I've found FB mostly irrelevant for socialising, but very useful for interest groups - what used to be Usenet, then eGroups/Onelist, then YahooGroups, then Google (sort of.)

There are only so many possible applications in the social space, and the idea that friends/family, work colleagues, hobby/interest, and professional interest groups should all share the same space was always eccentric.

[kodablah]

> I think many people that are moving away from Facebook move away from social networks in general [...] If I need to communicate with friends I do this "directly" via WhatsApp or email.

I'd like to see the line disappear and I'd like to see WhatsApp or email be considered social networking. I think a well built app can have both of those features in addition to the feed+post+comment style of Facebook. From the user perspective, what are all these communication mediums but just "place" configuration?

Edit: here're some early scratch grpc services I have been toying with to abstract different communication forms: https://github.com/cretz/yukup/tree/6793fb2b281e4ea7cda1fe5b...

[freehunter]

Seriously, if Snapchat is considered a social network, IRC/email/WhatsApp/iMessage/Hangouts/SMS is a social network too.

[firethief]

Yeah, I'm sure Facebook could build WhatsApp into a trustworthy social networking platform.

[paulie_a]

I completely agree with you, personally I am burned out by social networking. Snapchat, LinkedIn, Instagram are all gone, Facebook I barely use anymore. They offer so little and come with huge costs.