There was a dialogue about Mark Zuckerberg's character in the film 'The Social Network' in 2010, "School-college students go online because their friends are online, so if one turns away, others also move away."
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That word is clearly proving the truth about Facebook. At least in the United States.
Facebook is no longer the most popular platform for young people between 13 to 17 years of social networking. Facebook is no longer in the first three of the list.
The Pew Research Center, a research institute, says the youth are gently leaning on YouTube. 85 percent say they use YouTube.
Then there are Instagram and Snapchat.
Facebook's fourth position in teenager youth in the United States 51 percent of young people are still using Facebook. But Facebook has lost 20 percent of users since 2015.
But still there is a Facebook application for children of relatively depressed families. More crisis ahead for Facebook?
Various statistics can be a cause for concern for Facebook.
Daniel Ives, a research institute of GBH Insight, said that the recent speculation about Facebook was going on, the latest study proved to be true.
Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg says that in the last three months of 2017, Facebook spent less than 5 billion hours. He said it was because of the reduction of the video.
Professor Hunzin Sow of Kansas University of the United States is researching the tendency of teenagers to use social media.
Why are some of the reasons why he left for Facebook and went towards Instagram and Snapchat?
Many youths are leaving the platform because of the movements of various young people, especially their parents and the position of the elderly on Facebook. Many people do not use Facebook for regular communication with friends.
He said many young people told me that they posted something on Facebook when their old people wanted to see the photos.
One of the main reasons for the growing popularity of YouTube, Snapchat and Instagram is the importance of photos and videos on these platforms.
However, despite losing credibility among young people, overall Facebook is still the most popular social media. In the first three months of 2018, new four million and eight million people are entering Facebook every day.
Besides, the most popular medium of youth, Instagram is owned by Facebook.