Facebook is Zoonotic and Will Die in Near Time

It is known fact that major social networking site, Facebook is losing its visitors from last one year and according to US scientists it will lose 80 percent of users within the next three years. This once king of social networking sites has spread like an infectious disease and will die like a zoonotic plague, said by the researchers at Princeton University.

They predict that the site will be abandoned by large number of users by the year 2017 because of the other competitors in the same category. Facebook is going to celebrate its tenth birthday on February 4 and has survived competitors such as Bebo and MySpace but it will lose 80 per cent of its users in next three years by experts claim.

A prediction, by researchers John Cannarella and Joshua Spechler, based on the number of search terms for Facebook into Google; it peaked in December 2012 and has begun to slide off since then. The corporation is yet to update investors on its updated traffic numbers at the end of the month. Its last October report showed 1.2 billion monthly active users.

Despite the high competition in the market and growing popularity of the other social networking sites such as Snapchat, Twitter and new comer Cooler Facebook Company is releasing its new features to enhance the application to be friendlier with users. Web experts saying that Facebook might have lost desktop visitors as the mobile phone usage is increasing highly in daily life.

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Decreasing Popularity of Facebook

According to a study by social media experts, Facebook is popularity is going down day by day. With the existence of the high profile competitors such as Twitter, Snapchat, Whatsapp and other applications Facebook is missing user existence like before. The Global Social Media Impact Study noticed that those people who aged 16 to 18 in about eight countries for 15 months and found Facebook use was in sharp decline.
Simpler social networks are dominating usage of Facebook and being replaced by the users. Many young people nowadays are adopting the other simpler networks instead and turning away from this. On the other side people, who are addicted and finding most of their friends and parents who need their updates, are just updating their status just sake of status updates.
According to an anthropologist Mr. Daniel Miller, Professor in University College London, most of the users feel embarrassed even to be associated with it. Many youngsters are moving away in their droves and turning to other networks.

 

Facebook Dead or Buried
Many of the schoolchildren in the survey recognized that in many ways, Facebook is technically far far more good than others such as Twitter or Instagram. It is more integrated, better for photo albums, organizing parties and more effective for observing relationships of peoples, said professor Miller, adding that "slick isn't always best" in attracting youngsters.
Facebook has been overtaken by WhatsApp as the best way to send and receive messages, said the researchers, while Snapchat has gaining in popularity from recent months by allowing users to send images which "self-destruct" after a short period on the recipient's phone in order to maintain privacy.
Researchers found close friends used Snapchat to communicate, while WhatsApp was used with acquaintances and Twitter broadcasted to anyone who chose to follow that person. If this is the case that leading declining and death of the social media giant Facebook, then it should be updated with the new version that users wants to be changed and it should be more user friendly than the other competitors.

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