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the claim that young people are abandoning the platform.
The first point seems undeniably true, while the second seems largely false
You are the first person I have seen to dispute that. They have been leaving FB in large numbers for years (this is for the US, not all users globally, which is the focus of the article)
Why teens are leaving Facebook: It’s ‘meaningless’ (February 2015)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/02/21/why-teens-are-leaving-facebook-its-meaningless/
Younger users flee their parents' favorite social network, Facebook, at surprising pace (Feb 2018)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-younger-users-leaving-facebook-20180212-story.html
Why People Don’t Use Facebook Anymore? An Investigation Into the Relationship Between the Big Five Personality Traits and the Motivation to Leave Facebook (academic article from July 2020)
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01497/full
Facebook is rapidly losing millennials, US user base down 15 million since 2017 (March 2019)
https://www.techspot.com/news/79082-facebook-rapidly-losing-millennials-us-user-base-down.html
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