Young users quit using Facebook, decreasing the popularity of the social network

By David Khoirul

Wednesday, December 24, 2014

While Facebook has its own terms of service that prohibit kids from creating an account, many children registered as users on the social network. Dhani, my friend's son, for example, has a Facebook account. Usually, a kid signs up for account to play Facebook online games in the Internet cafe. Also read Finding cheap notebooks and laptops but not enough money to buy.

Sury's son, Lailul Agsya, also has an account in the social network. He made his account with me to connect to online games on his tablet. Recently according to a Mashable report, more teens are fleeing from Facebook. Here's what the site says:

According to the study, in 2014, 88% of 13- to 17-year-old social media users in the U.S. were on Facebook — a drop from 94% in 2013 and 95% in 2012.

Though this is still a vast percentage of teens, as was confirmed by this study in June 2014, the 6% drop sounds quite significant — especially when some of Facebook's competition is experiencing the reverse.

Take Twitter, for example — Magid claims that 48% of social media users of the same age group in the U.S. were on Twitter in 2014, rising from 46% in 2013.

Some of the reasons for this decline of Facebook's popularity among teens is their perception of the site's safety. According to the study, only 9% of those surveyed described Facebook as "safe" or "trustworthy". It's also not much "fun" — only 18% of teens described it as so, in contrast with 40% saying the same for Pinterest.

Facebook is part of our life. On this social network, we do many things, from sharing thought to debating on many topics. My recent activity is Christmas debate on Facebook: is it allowed or forbidden to wish Merry Christmas.

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