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Youngster Are Abandoning Facebook or Twitter for Good Reasons

The new generation who made the Social media giants; Facebook and Twitter popular are starting to quit using them. Now, when they are checking up the news or updates of their friends, they use other social media platforms like Instagram or Snapchat.

Daniel Okafor
Daniel OkaforSenior AI Reporter
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Youngster Are Abandoning Facebook or Twitter for Good Reasons

The new generation who made the Social media giants; Facebook and Twitter popular are starting to quit using them. Now, when they are checking up the news or updates of their friends, they use other social media platforms like Instagram or Snapchat. Instagram for their favorite brands’ updates, Snapchat for the updates from friends.

In time, they learned that they shouldn’t share every event of their life in Facebook because those moments will stay on the site, and it is hard to get rid of them. When they are applying for a new job, they judged by their shared content. They do some crazy stuff which is very normal – nobody is a robot, right! they are young people – and one elderly that act like he or she never did any stupid thing when they were young, judge them just for some photo or the content they share. Or grandparents might like the crazy event pictures, and that might put the youngster in a weird position in the family.
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Particularly for the new generation, Facebook is getting old, and Twitter is getting unpopular – almost didn’t change until the first day it came up -. But in Snapchat and Facebook Messenger, you share your moments with the people that you want to share, also in these apps, data can be erased after you shared, so there will be no embarrassed in the future.
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Yes, Youngster stop using Facebook, but they are using Facebook-owned Instagram, still the company earns from the new generation. But the Facebook platform still the primary money maker for the business, since 2013; 11 million young people fled from Facebook. According to the PEW ( Pew Research Center ) 49% of smart device users between the age 18 to 29, are using Kik, Whatsapp or iMessage which apps deleted the messages automatically. There is one serious problem for Facebook here in the long term, which is; if the young generation people are no longer liking pages or share stuff. It will change the decision of the corporation who gives millions of dollars for advertisement. The company earned almost $18 billion every year from these adds. If young people stop feeding the Facebook algorithm by clicking stuff. The big corporations which give sh@T loads of money to Facebook may start to using the other social platforms for reaching the new generation.
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Daniel Okafor

Daniel Okafor

Senior AI Reporter

Daniel Okafor is the Senior AI Reporter at TrendinTech, where he covers large language models, machine learning research and the practical use of artificial intelligence across business and government. He previously reported on artificial intelligence for MIT Technology Review, covering the labs behind the current generation of frontier models and the policy debates in Washington and Brussels. Daniel holds a Master of Science in Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon University and follows the research community closely, attending NeurIPS and ICML each year to speak with the people behind the papers. He has a particular interest in evaluation: how models are benchmarked, where those benchmarks fail and what that means for the companies betting on them.

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