Young users see Facebook as ‘dead and buried’
A study of how teenagers use social media has found that Facebook is “not just on the slide, it is basically dead and buried”, but that the network is morphing into a tool for keeping in touch with older family members
By Matthew Sparkes
1:30PM GMT 27 Dec 2013
A study of how older teenagers in eight countries use social media has found that Facebook is “not just on the slide, it is basically dead and buried”.
Professor Daniel Miller of University College London, one of the researchers working on the project, said in a blog post: “Mostly they feel embarrassed even to be associated with it.
“This year marked the start of what looks likely to be a sustained decline of what had been the most pervasive of all social networking sites. Young people are turning away in their droves and adopting other social networks instead, while the worst people of all, their parents, continue to use the service.
My three kids use it less. There is always something new to try.
I think that there is a tech bubble, most of the big movers do not have a lock on their users. Facbook is still trying to make money on mobile devices and the kids have moved on.
The point of moving on from FB for kids was when their parents signed up.