Mark Zuckerberg had not blown yet the candles on the Facebook birthday cake, while the talks on the future of the social networking giants broke down.
Despite a 10-year history, many specialists dare to predict a sad and untimely end of Facebook in the nearest future. According to the statistics, users, in particular, young people, leave the network as it is “boring”. Some of them even compare an obsession with social networking to a contagious disease.
Researchers at Princeton University said that Facebook will lose 80% of users during the next 3 years. The men of science reached such a conclusion after studying the charts produced by the Google trends service, so the network suddenly reacted to the bashing.
According to Facebook’s communication manager and former BBC tech desk editor Iain Mackenzie, Facebook satisfies people’s curiosity.
In addition, using the same research method, the scientists concluded that Princeton will have no students by 2021, and the world will run out of air by 2060.
"As data scientists we wanted to give a fun reminder that not all research is created equal - and some methods of analysis lead to pretty crazy conclusions," the Facebook representatives hit back.
In the opinion of Nate Elliot, analyst at Forrester Research, comparison of Facebook to a disease is wrong. "One of Facebook's greatest strengths is its practice of regularly adding new features and functionality to its site; this both ensures it infects new users and also makes sure existing users don't become immune to its charms," he said in his blog.
