Sunday, November 3, 2013

One more thing teens hate: Facebook

To escape parents, teenagers seek out alternate corners of the Internet


By Quentin Fottrell
Nov. 3, 2013
 

Teenagers rebel, do things their parents wouldn’t do, and go places their parents never go. In other words, the last thing they want to do these days is log into Facebook.

As Facebook FB -0.34%  acknowledged on the company’s third-quarter conference call on Wednesday, the most popular social network on the planet is losing its luster among the kids in America. “We did see a decrease in daily users, especially younger teens,” Facebook chief financial officer David Ebersman said Wednesday, though he added that teenage use remained stable from the second to the third quarter. Not everyone is convinced, however: “Today’s 13-year-olds were four-years-old when Facebook started,” says Larissa Faw, editor at trade publication Youth Markets Alert. “Like McDonald’s and Nike, they have always lived in a world with that site. They want to discover new places to hang out.”

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