Facebook will lose 80% of users by 2017, say Princeton researchers

Facebook has spread like an infectious disease but we are slowly becoming immune to its attractions, and the platform will be largely abandoned by 2017, say researchers at Princeton University (pdf). The forecast of Facebook's impending doom was made by comparing the growth curve of epidemics to those of online social networks. Scientists argue that, like bubonic plague, Facebook will eventually d

[aladhi]

This does not make sense to me, especially the part of mentioning to a falling in Google Trends.

[tkys0628]

プリンストン大学の研究者いわく「facebookユーザーの8割が今後3年で消える」と