Facebook Is ‘Dead and Buried’ to Teens, and That’s Just Fine for Facebook
Found on Wired on Friday, 27 December 2013
Anthropologist Daniel Miller has been studying British teens, and he has a dire message for Facebook: The social network is “dead and buried” to Britain’s 16-to-18-year-olds because they’re “embarrassed even to be associated with it.”
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has been telling people for years that he wants to turn the service into a global utility, akin to the power grid or the water supply — something that feeds everything else you do.
Of course Facebook cannot admit that this will matter; investors would not like to hear it. MySpace wasn't much different, and it's far from being a utility. I don't even want to imagine a world where Zuck's FB is as important as water or power.