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Insights from 10 years of Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and Google usage.

  • Facebook’s core metrics, particularly around content creation are mostly downhill for me, and unfortunately I haven’t shifted to Instagram. I’ve personally shifted time as a producer and consumer to Reddit and Medium.
  • Anecdotally, many of my friends have shifted to Instagram both as a creator and consumer, so here’s to hoping FB monetizes it’s story format.
  • I continue to use FB’s products for messaging (Messenger, WhatsApp).
  • Google is generally upward or plateauing in usage for it’s core services: Search, Ads, Chrome, Gmail, and Maps. However, there is one previously used service: Google Hangouts which I nearly never use anymore.
  • Google search frequently leads me to the same set of domains.
  • Thanks to music videos and daily content categories, YouTube continues to dominate time spent even as Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu enter the e-video space.
  • While I’m an active commenter and liker on Facebook (even more so than posting), I barely comment or like on YouTube.
  • I was shocked to see how many more ads I had clicked on Google than Facebook (100x), albeit my fiancées disparity was closer to 8x.