Young Facebook Users “Less Engaged” As Demographic ‘Time Bomb’ Looms

Jon Economy

While Mark Zuckerberg is busy espousing virtues on Universal Basic Incomes, the deep divide in America, free-speech ‘control’, and what being president means; his billion-dollar-baby social network may have a problem.
This year, the world’s largest social network will see a decline among teen users in the U. S., according to a forecast by EMarketer. It’s the first time the research company has predicted a fall in Facebook usage for any age group.
Vanity Fair notes that for years Facebook has faced a lingering problem with one of its core constituencies: teenagers, the most fickle tech demographic, don’t think it’s cool.
Facebook, to its credit, saw the phenomenon coming: in a 2013 earnings call, then Chief Financial Officer David Ebersman acknowledged that teens were logging off the social network in growing numbers.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on AUG 22, 2017.