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Facebook isn’t going anywhere
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31/12/2013 from
qz.com/162303/social-media-is-not-a-zero-sum-game-and-facebook-isnt-going-anywhere-so-get-used-to-it/
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An unfortunately accurate corrective to the recent "Facebook is dying" meme. 2013 truly was the year everyone just couldnt be arsed checking the facts:
"A British academic studying social media found that young people use lots of new-fangled services, such as Instagram, because their parents are on Facebook. “What we’ve learned from working with 16-18 year olds in the UK is that Facebook is not just on the slide, it is basically dead and buried,” Daniel Miller of University College London wrote at The Conversation. What a great quote! No wonder if was all over the internet in two microseconds.
Unfortunately The Conversation, which promises “academic rigour, journalistic flair” on its masthead, this time delivered more of the flair than the rigor. The BBC’s Rory Cellan-Jones looked into the claims and found that the results came from a small, localized area and not from an “extensive European study,” as the Guardian put it "
- Quartz.
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