Tick-tock snaps the clock for Facebook as we chat and I message elsewhere
Privacy concerns and development shortcomings have seen the ‘irrelevant’ platform face major declines
21 February 2022 - 19:41
Austin Johnsen knew his Facebook use had dwindled over the past couple of years, but it wasn’t until recently that he and his wife realised just how little they used the world’s largest social network. “We got married three years ago and we hadn’t even updated our status that we were dating,” says Johnsen, a tech employee living in the San Francisco Bay Area who joined Facebook in 2004. “Back in the heyday that would have been something you add right away.”..
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