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I am a seventeen-year-old girl. I have no idea eat they're on about. Everyone here uses Facebook. It is not dead nor dying.

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I teach in a Further Education College in the UK. FB seems pretty popular with the 16-19 students there as well, along with BBM on old Blackberries using the free wifi we provide!

Have a good holiday all

About three years ago, FB was the 'thing' for teenagers. I mean when smartphones were less powerful, kids would be logged into facebook on their PCs for hours each day, browsing through photos, chatting with their friends, playing stupid games. Today I see, they are more hooked into smartphones for everything it was famous for. Of course, Facebook is still good for being connected to acquaintances, colleagues but its just not on everybody's lips as it used to be.

I won't imply FB would a history in any near time but the social market itself is so dynamic, that its just a matter of time when you are replaced by a better alternative.

Right. Most people use FB on their phones now, I think, while previously on PCs. And I think people probably don't use it as much as they did, but it's still widely used.

You use it for all your messaging and image sharing, over SMS, SnapChat, or other apps?

Having a Facebook account and posting status updates while chatting on SMS or SnapChat is the point of the article, and the point of FB is dying posts.

No one things that everyone won't have a FB account. But if FB isn't your one source of social media interactivity, it's losing mindshare.

I'm a 37 year old (jeez, typing that suddenly made me feel much, much older) male. I went from being an early, avid, oversharing Facebook user to quitting it 6 months back.

But that's just what it is. Two anecdotal examples which by themselves neither prove nor disprove anything.

Well, yes, though I'm not using myself as an example, so much as the people I know, and I happen to be the type of person this survey was looking at.

>male

Are you a dog or something? Because the proper word for describing a male of the human species is "man". You're not a male, you're a MAN.

I've never heard anyone say that male is an inappropriate term for a man. Both terms are acceptable in their own context.

It's largely a UK/US-ism I think. It's inappropriate in not-America to say you're male. "Male" just means you're an animal with dangly bits.

US doctor: "A 24 year old male presents with..."

UK doctor: "A 24 year old man presents with..."

Here's the Cambridge dictionary on the word: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/british/male_3

Note the example: "Among the bodies are two unidentified British males."

Woof! You got me there. I'm a dog, because then of course it makes perfect sense to you when I say I am a 37 year old male :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_y...

Maybe that's just what they told the researchers, because they didn't want to add them or explain why not! "nah I don't use it."

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