I turned on my old laptop, last booted 5 years ago. This gem was in the home directory:

It is official; Netcraft now confirms: Facebook is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Facebook community when IDC confirmed that Facebook market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming close on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Facebook has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Facebook is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Facebook's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Facebook faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Facebook because Facebook is dying. Things are looking very bad for Facebook. As many of us are already aware, Facebook continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

Facebook is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Facebook developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Facebook is dying.

Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

Facebook leader Mark Zuckerberg states that there are 7000 users of Facebook. How many users of Facebook are there? Let's see. The number of Instagram versus Facebook posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Facebook users. Facebook posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Facebook posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Facebook. A recent article put Facebook at about 80 percent of the diaspora market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Facebook users. This is consistent with the number of Facebook Usenet posts.

Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, Instagram went out of business and was taken over by Facebook who sell another troubled OS. Now Facebook is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

All major surveys show that Facebook has steadily declined in market share. Facebook is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Facebook is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. Facebook continues to decay. Nothing short of a cockeyed miracle could save Facebook from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Facebook is dead.

Fact: #Facebook is dying