And people keep using it, because it's convenient. Every single time I try to set something up for my friends - including a dedicated domain, with dedicated XMPP server that I'm willing to run, maintain, and trim to their needs, completely free, because running a community shouldn't be a business - I find myself on the bad end of "yeah, but Facebook Messenger is enough". Sometimes it's WhatsApp.<p>The only thing they'd need to do is fill in a username and a password field, and use any client, web, app, desktop, anything, but no, because Facebook is there, it's pre-installed on phones.<p>What happened to the idea of belonging to a group, to something? To express identity online? How do I move people?<p>I'd be willing to run mail and XMPP on their domains, because some of them still has a website, but it doesn't seem to interest anyone.
In talking with non-technical generational peers, and especially those a few years younger, it seems as though Facebook is successfully helping people start to understand + care about privacy.<p>Probably not the intended result, but cool nonetheless.