Facebook will LOSE 80% of its users by 2017 – epidemiological study
Found on The Register on Friday, 24 January 2014
Princeton PhD students Joshua Spechler and Johan Cannarella used epidemiological modelling, traditionally employed to track the growth patterns of infectious diseases, to predict Facebook's imminent demise, citing the way that MySpace peaked in 2008 and then rapidly disappeared in three years.
“If the disease model holds, it suggests that Facebook will need to evolve/mutate in order to begin another curve or it will die out. It has to overcome the immunisation cycle,” he added.
Nobody can seriously believe that Facebook will stay around forever, or even decades. In a few years nobody will care about it anymore because the users finally realize that they are being sold.