Teenagers Leaving Facebook In Droves, What's Next?
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Seems that Facebook is loosing its cool when it comes to teenagers. Who is going to be number 1 in this segment?
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"New generations need their own way of expressing feelings and creativity."
This is the most important sentence of the article. The reason all the above examples were so popular is because when they we in their heyday, parents and authority figures in general were nowhere near them. A teen could post their brooding emo poetry on LiveJournal without a concern that everyone they know would see it, only your friends.
While picture sites are popular, I feel like they miss the 'expressing yourself' portion of what made these sites a hit (or maybe I'm just an old fogy now that preferred text to videos and pictures).
Personally, I think there will be a more 'localized' social network that teens will flock to because everything is just 'out there'. While something like Diaspora could be the answer, I'm sure us adults won't really know until the 'next big thing' is no longer 'cool'.