Meta's Not Better

We are.

It's very exciting.

There's a new study out about this exciting phenomenon [laughing] of social media-

[laughing]

... which reveals everyone now hates it and has gone off it.

Um, this is a report by Ofcom, isn't it, Matt?

Yeah.

It's the latest Ofcom data that was published last week into, uh, UK media users, specifically online media.

Uh, showed that, that basically we all hate social media now, or at least we're not engaging with it in the same way that we used to.

Uh, the numbers of people who are actually going online and posting, for example, to Facebook or to Instagram, commenting, liking, has dropped to just under half of people.

And this has kind of led to a spate of articles that kind of hand-wringingly saying, "Well, is that it for social media?"

Mm.

"Oh, now that we're banning it, are we all just gonna sort of stop using it after all?" But that's not quite what the data shows.

I think it's kind of important to, to push back ever so slightly against this narrative because I don't know if you noticed, people, people still look at their phones a lot.

Mm.

I know, uh, like, I presume you still look at Instagram, um-

I do

... is it fair to say? Yeah.

Well, I've only just joined.

I'm a bit embarrassed about it-

[laughing]

... just 'cause everyone else is leaving it finally.

It's, it's not too late to stop.

No. [laughing]

You can, you can, you can kind of get out of it.