Researchers: Facebook Already Peaked, Could Lose 80 Percent of Users by 2017
Researchers used Google trends and theories on how disease spreads
Interest in Facebook has peaked and the social network could lose up to 80 percent of its users by 2017, researchers say.
Academics at Princeton University used theories on the spread of disease combined with Google Trends data on searches for Facebook to predict the demise of the world's largest social network.
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Yeah, that seems likely. Are they also predicting that 80 percent of people will stop using the internet?
Both of my teenage kids stopped using FB in the past couple years. I think researchers are right and it has lost its appeal to the younger generation and will soon peak and then slide …