Friday, January 24, 2014

Facebook predicted same fate with MySpace

Facebook predicted same fate with MySpace
Social media much like a contagious disease that spreads rapidly and reach millions of users in a short time and then suddenly die. It has been experienced by MySpace, but what about Facebook?

Latest research from researchers from the University Princeton generate predictions, Facebook will decline rapidly within the next few years and will lose 80 percent of users between 2015 and 2017. Researchers using epidemiological models that are used to track the spread of infectious diseases and Google search data available to the public in analyzing user adoption and left the online social media.

According to research, Facebook has reached the peak of its popularity and is now entering the phase of decline, evidenced by a decrease in the frequency of search trends after 2012. Because users of social media are now beginning to leave the recovery process will be started again, which means that others will follow the lead of their colleagues who have left social media.

MySpace was founded in 2013 became a real example. Social media is reaching the height of popularity in 2008 with the number of monthly unique visitors reached 75.9 million in the U.S., and then their fate became unclear in 2011. This site was then bought by News Corp for $ 580 million USD while growing middle shot in 2005 and six years later only sold 35 million USD.

Facebook has a billion monthly users actively 1:19. Princeton research suggests that social media could lose more than 800 million users in the next three years or more than 200 million users per year.

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