Is Facebook for old people? Over-55s flock in as the young leave
by Mark Sweney from Technology | The Guardian on (#3FNTY)
A forecast 700,000 UK teenagers and young adults will leave the social media site in 2018
It's official: Facebook is for old(er) people. Teens and young adults are ditching Mark Zuckerberg's social network as popularity among the over-55s surges, according to a report.
In 2018, 2.2 million 12- to 17-year-olds and 4.5 million 18- to 24-year-olds will regularly use Facebook in the UK, 700,000 fewer than in 2017, as younger users defect to services such as Snapchat, according to eMarketer.
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