'Facebook has only 4 years to live,' American researchers expect

ByMkhmarketing

Facebook, which was founded in 2004, has gained tremendous momentum to increase the number of users and quickly climbed to one of the world's most popular SNSs. But since about 2013 "A user of a young generation is transitioning to a messenger applicationIt is pointed out that a decrease in the number of Facebook users is reported. American researchers developed severe expectations about Facebook's future, as if to catch up with such a declining Facebook.

Facebook will lose 80% of users by 2017, say Princeton researchers | Technology | The Guardian
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According to researchers at Princeton University in the USA, the epidemic of Facebook is unprecedented, like the plague that was prevalent in Europe in the 14th century, the momentum of spreading is amazing, but it will not stop as it declines. Facebook, which celebrates its 10th anniversary on February 4, 2014, has been living more than Myspace and Bebo who have already retired from the line, but researchers anticipate "we will lose 80% of users by 2017" doing.

ByLEOL 30

What the researchers used for the prediction is the model equation describing the epidemic process of infectious diseasesSIRHow to say. I tried using SIR to investigate Myspace, and it showed almost the same as expected in the real world, and it seems that reliable results are also obtained on Facebook.

Facebook has about 1,200 million monthly active users as of October 2013 and access from the PC is decreasing, but Facebook's users from smartphones are estimated to be 880 million by monthAnnouncementDavid Ebersman, Chief Financial Officer of Facebook said, "Looking back on the past three months, the number of daily users has declined, especially those that are noticeably teenagers."

ByAnjana Jayaweera

You can know the popularity of Google search by graph or numeric valueGoogle TrendBy looking at Facebook, it is also true that the number of searches is tracking downward from December 2012. Will Facebook face down in about four years as expected by researchers, or whether it will revitalize something new service and be revisited in the future?