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On 12/30/13 12:22 PM, Erik Toren wrote:
Supposedly there is a greater trend of teens using Twitter as opposed to
other social networks.
Apparently the kids prefer Instagram, a video and picture sharing social
network, to everything else, the logical conclusion of eschewing words.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/teens-leaving-facebook/story?id=20739310
Teens Are Leaving Facebook And This is Where They Are Going
Oct. 31, 2013
By JOANNA STERN
Like many parents, Facebook is learning that raising teenagers is hard.
On Wednesday evening during its 2013 fourth quarter earnings call
Facebook's Chief Financial Officer David Ebersman said teen usage of the
social network decreased in the last quarter.
"We did see a decrease in daily users, specifically among younger
teens," Ebersman said, sending down the stock from the rise it saw after
earnings were announced. "We wanted to share this with you now because
we get a lot of questions about teens."
Of course, those precious teens haven't decided to spend less time on
their phones, tablets or computers interacting with friends. They have
just decided to spend the time using different social networks. So where
are the teens going? Here are some ideas.
Instagram
Look at the phone of any high school kid and you'll likely find
Instagram easily accessible. Instagram doesn't outrightly share how many
younger users it has, but according to Pew, 18 percent of cell owners
use Instagram and Instagram states that it has 150 million active users.
Teens don't just post food photos or selfies though. They comment on
photos of their friends and share images of things they are interested
in -- sports, bands, celebrities, you name it.
This isn't bad news for Facebook. The company owns Instagram and shelled
out $1 billion for it in April 2012. Brian Solis, a principal analyst at
Altimeter Group, says be believes Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook's lead
executives knew they would need help with the younger market at the time
and that was the impetus behind the purchase.
"Facebook realized it needed not just a mobile future, but also a future
for this younger or teen audience," Solis told ABC News.
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