Teens Leaving Facebook: Could The Social Media Giant Become Obsolete in 10 Years?

Teens Leaving Facebook: Could The Social Media Giant Become Obsolete in 10 Years?

Facebook has grown from strength to strength since its early days and conception of being Mark Zuckerburg's idea of connecting students with other students. These days it connects people around the world with other people in the world including your friends and family and is now one of the biggest and most used Social Networking sites in the world. Well it used to be...

What with technology changing and more social media sites showing up such as Instagram and Snapchat, Facebook is facing a lot of competition and many of its younger users moving away from Facebook and using other social media sites instead.

There's a very genuine reason for this and the general consensus is that teenagers feel like Facebook is "the mom and dad version of Instagram and Twitter". In fact, in a study done by Bianca Bosker from the Huffington Post who interviewed many 13-16 year olds about their use of Facebook has discovered that many of them don't even use Facebook anymore and prefer to use those social media sites where their parents aren't likely to be!

The younger generation has always been able to adapt to changes in technology much quicker than the older ones can. While teenagers are usually able to adapt to changes and make the switch without any qualms, the older generation are done trying new things and are happy where they are.

A survey and experiment by Daily Dot shows that Instagram is the most used social networking site and has actually surpassed Facebook by amount of users with Twitter coming in a close 3rd. These statistics are staggeringly different to how things used to be just over a year ago that showed how Facebook was the preferred social networking site for teenagers.

The survey shows that sharing on Facebook has declined from 42% to just 23% in just over a year! Twitter itself is actually making a comeback as a site where people share things and Instagram is growing as a sharing platform also. However one thing Facebook has going for it, is that they own Instagram so the users aren't really leaving Facebook behind for good. They're still under the Facebook umbrella.

Eric Lang from Daily Dot says that "It’s easier for teens to switch over because they’re still in their exploratory phase, but for parents, they’re done exploring. They’re good."

This is backed up by the former Facebook CFO David Ebersman who agrees and says that "while parents registered to Facebook to see what they're kids were up to they also discovered it a fun place to be and have got used to that and the hang of using it and don't feel the need to use other social sites".

Now with teens moving away from Facebook and using alternative social media sites and apps like Snapchat, it could be that Facebook's popularity could dwindle and end up like how Myspace did. Myspace? What's Myspace?

What do you think?

Do you think Facebook is going to become obsolete in the next 10 years?

Are the rise of other social media sites the cause for its dwindling use?

Will Facebook end up like Myspace one day?