'Parents killed it': why Facebook is losing its teenage users
by Mark Sweney and Ana De Liz from Technology | The Guardian on (#3G2EX)
This year more than 3 million under-25s in the UK and US are expected to leave the site
When Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook he was a 19-year-old living in a dorm in his second year at university. Fast-forward 14 years and it is the young people he was so successful in luring to Facebook to propel it to become the world's biggest social networking site that are now his biggest problem.
This year more than 3 million under-25s in the UK and US will either quit Facebook or stop using it regularly, and they are pretty vocal about why.