Friday, January 3, 2014

Fears that teenagers are deserting Facebook are overblown


http://www.economist.com/news/business/21592661-fears-teenagers-are-deserting-facebook-are-overblown-unfriending-mum-and-dad

NOT long after being snapped up by News Corporation in 2005, MySpace became a much emptier space when many teenagers who had used the social network to share music and photos of themselves in various states of undress decided it was no longer the cool place to be online. A recent blog post has sparked a debate about whether Facebook, which has 1.2 billion users, is suffering a similar exodus.