Facebook is 'dead and buried' to old teenagers an European company have researched that the old teenagers move to other market leading social networking sites such as, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp and Snapchat. They have found out that 16-18 year olds parents are now using Facebook and there children are using other social networking sites. They are using other platforms to communicate with their friends.
"Facebook is not just on the slide - it is basically dead and buried," wrote Daniel Miller, lead anthropologist on the research team, who is professor of material culture of University College London. Parents were once worried about their children using Social networking sites such as Facebook.
"What appears to be the most seminal moment in a young person’s decision to leave Facebook was surely that dreaded day your mum sends you a friend request," wrote Miller.
"It is nothing new that young people care about style and status in relation to their peers, and Facebook is simply not cool anymore."
Information that people choose to publish on Facebook has generally been through a psychological filtering process, researchers found - unlike conversations, photos and video shared through more private tools such as Skype, or on mobile apps.
My view:
I believe that the reason why Facebook is losing its young audience is because of other social networking sites which give a much more advanced opportunity to its users to communicate in a advanced way. This is why I think Facebook is losing users and it is getting very boring which is why it has lost nearly all of its young audience. The reason why I think parents and old people have started using it is because they have just discovered it, for them its a new way of communicating which has fascinated them to use it.
I think soon the old audience would get bored with Facebook as well because it will seem boring to them and they will then most likely to use the social networking sites which there children use now. By then I think their children will be defiantly using another social networking site which fascinates them. Its like follow the leader, normally children are meant to be following their parents but now parents are following their children.
Parents used to be very worried about their children using social networking sites such as Facebook because they use to think that it was a dangerous place for there children to be on. Now children can argue that why are you using it then because nearly all parents are on Facebook now.
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