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Facebook 'dead and buried to teens', research finds :

. Teens are being put off Facebook by friend requests from their parents. Photograph: Getty Images
. Facebook is 'dead and buried' to older teenagers
. an extensive European study has found, as the key age group moves on to Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp and Snapchat.
. Researching the Facebook use of 16-18 year olds in eight EU countries, the Global Social Media Impact Study found that as parents and older users are using Facebook, its younger users are shifting to alternative platforms.
. Critics have said ; "Mostly they feel embarrassed to even be associated with it. Where once parents worried about their children joining Facebook, the children now say it is their family that insists they stay there to post about their lives."
. Researches found that ; Teens don't care that alternative services are less functional and sophisticated, and they are unconcerned about how information about them is being used commercially or as part of surveillance practice by the security services, but rather concerned about the fact that their parents are signing up to facebook.
. "It is nothing new that young people care about style and status in relation to their peers, and Facebook is simply not cool anymore."
. In part of the study's research with Italian Facebook users, 40% of users had never changed their privacy settings and 80% said they "were not concerned or did not care" if their personal data was available and accessed, either by an organisation or an individual.
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