. Facebook is seeing a decrease in daily users - especially teenagers. Photograph: Image Source/Corbis.
. Facebook made a startling admission in its earnings announcement this month: it was seeing a "decrease in daily users, specifically among teens".
. teenagers are still on Facebook; they're just not using it as much as they did. It was a landmark statement, since teens are the demographic who often point the rest of us towards the next big thing.
. All the fun stuff is happening elsewhere. On their mobiles.
. When mobile messaging apps such as WhatsApp first emerged in 2009
. Mobile operators are estimated to have lost $23bn in SMS revenue in 2012 due to messaging apps, which host free instant messages through a phone's data connection, which these days is often unlimited.
. Now these apps are becoming a threat to established social networks too.
. according to Mobile Marketing Magazine, whatsapp has more than 350 million monthly active users globally.
. That makes it the biggest messaging app in the world
. with even more active users than social media Twitter, which counts 218 million. About 90% of the population of Brazil uses messaging apps, three-quarters of Russians, and half of Britons, according to mobile consultancy Tyntec. WhatsApp alone is on more than 95% of all smartphones in Spain.
MY OPINION :
In my opinion I think Facebook has started to die out and will continue to lose their users as there are many new operators being launched on a daily basis, a popular one is whatsapp which is free of charge, and works better than facebook as it is fast and many people have started to use it to send pictures to one another. There is also text messaging but you have to pay to send pictures which some peope refuse to do, hence the reason why whatsapp is becoming more and more popular.
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