Report: People Are Spending Much Less Time On Social Media (cnbc.com)

An anonymous reader writes from a report via CNBC: According to a new study from marketing intelligence firm SimilarWeb, people are spending less time on social media apps like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat. The company analyzed Android users' daily time spent on these social networks from January to March 2016 with the same period in 2015, which included data from the U.S., UK, Germany, Spain, Australia, India, South Africa, Brazil and Spain. Instagram usage was down 23.7 percent this year, Twitter usage was down 23.4 percent, Snapchat usage was down 15.7 percent, and Facebook usage was down 8 percent. Daily usage was down even more in the U.S. for most of the apps. In the U.S., Instagram usage was down 36.2 percent, Twitter was down 27.9 percent, Snapchat was down 19.2 percent but Facebook only fell 6.7 percent. Current installs for the four big social networks were down nine percent year over year. Meanwhile, Facebook's messaging apps, WhatsApp and Messenger increased their installs by 15 percent and 2 percent respectively.

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i want to see facebook fold

[FudRucker]

and become a internet backwater that almost nobody visits anymore, and zuckerberg have a breakdown and lose his mind and starts wandering the streets with a cardboard sign with some silly religious end times comment on it

Re:i want to see facebook fold

[slazzy]

I'm sure most of us will live to see Facebook be the next myspace. By that time we'll all be onto something else.

Re:i want to see facebook fold

[eyenot]

It would be funny if Zuckerberg was wandering around with his "End Of Data" sign hanging from his neck, and all people would do in response is to walk past him with their thumbs-up sticking out. Or just say yell "LIKE!" at him. Or hand him pictures of their cats/babies/dogs/concerts/bathrooms.

Won't happen

[rsilvergun]

Zuck was born a member of the ruling class. It's one of those things that seldom gets brought up. Most of the .com success stories come from guys and gals who had rich parents that had the connections needed to take an idea and turn it into a business. But gotta keep that myth of upward (and downward) mobility alive. The rich don't fall. Regular folk do. But not the rich. They take care of their own. That's why they invented golden parachutes and the like. Me? My parachutes full of holes and my safety net's barb wire.