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Facebook sinking fast among U.S. teens: survey

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By JOEL SAGET

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Kids are smarter than most think.

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Facebook lost the youth market the moment it went from being the place kids post pictures of themselves and became the place parents posted pictures of their kids.

Personally, I'd rather the company went down in flames because of its unethical use of customers' data and support for anti-democratic propaganda, but going down for being grossly uncool gets the job done in the end.

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Don't use FB

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Kids get bored quickly and are always looking for the newest thing. This statistic is not really a sign of Facebook losing favor. It’s just a sign of kids being kids. Don’t forget, this survey was done on 13-17 year old kids. Many 13-17 year olds don’t use a smart phone or computer at all.

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One problem with FB might be that people often post the same things over and over and it gets old. For example, some people usually just post pictures of their kids, some share political articles (always bent toward their own views) etc. Out of the 3 or 4 hundred friends I have on it, only about 10 to 30 regularly post on it and it gets a bit boring and predictable. The only thing recently that's kept me interested are the pages that I'm interested in related to my hobbies, interests, and local restaurants and so on.

Also, there's very little privacy on FB & Messenger that might be turning off the teen crowd. Snapchat and Line you can erase messages on just your device, while on Messenger you have to erase the comments completely (on both the yours and the other person's device). Also, on FB, on a computer you can easily switch accounts and parents can access their teen's FB/Messenger messengers with ease.

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Newsgroups used to be the place to go for interests and hobbies... looks like Facebook is now heading towards a similar demise. Perhaps Newsgroups will once again become favorable or at least a modern version of them :-)

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Good news. Invest in the Generation Z :)

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Newsgroups used to be the place to go for interests and hobbies... looks like Facebook is now heading towards a similar demise. Perhaps Newsgroups will once again become favorable or at least a modern version of them :-)

But newsgroups was never the go-to place of interest and hobbies for teens ages 13-17! ;-p

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