With the rise of applications like Snapchat and Twitter, Facebook seems to be well on its way out the back door. Many people would argue that Facebook has dug its own grave, while others say it’s because of all the new social media platforms. Here’s why I think Facebook has lost its edge. A few months ago Facebook tried to buy Snapchat. This seems to be a cry for help, a very desperate cry for help. The people at Facebook realized that all the young people were moving on. A New York Times writer says, “I’ve found that most of my younger relatives have graduated from high school and have deleted their accounts or whittled them down to where there is barely any personal information left” (Has Facebook Lost its Edge, par. 4). This proves that nowadays. The younger generation doesn’t use Facebook as much as it used to. So who’s going to use Facebook now, if all the young teenagers are gone? Well, from personal experience, it seems Facebook has become a place for all the grandpa’s and grandma’s to get together and trade pie recipes. Ok, maybe that’s a bit over the top, but Facebook really is crawling with old people. And us teens don’t have anything against that, it’s just that now we can’t come back to Facebook. Many of us are just too uncomfortable with the idea of virtually being “friends” with our parents, along with the star we idol, and our actual friends.”It’s not appealing having your guardian virtually breathing down your neck” especially because they do it so much in real life. (Why has Facebook lost its edge, par. 2). I understand that they want us to be safe, but a little bit of breathing room never hurt anybody. What do you do when all the young people leave your platform and you’re left with all the old people? You buy back the young people, obviously! Or at least that’s what Facebook tried, and failed to do. Facebook was so desperate, “it was willing to drop $3 billion in cash to stop the bleeding” (Bercovici, par. 1) They try to buys companies like Snapchat in hopes of looking cool and hip again, but the more and more they fail, the more and more desperate they look. Snapchat is used so much because of the people who made it that way. The only thing buying Snapchat will do is make it worse. People left Facebook for a reason, and bringing those reasons to the application we love so much might just start the world’s first war between to technologically based companies. Facebook should just accept its fate and be happy with its good run. With the rise of applications like Snapchat and Twitter, Facebook seems to be well on its way out the back door. Young people, the target audience for social media platforms, have left Facebook and moved on. With them gone, all the old people are left, and no youngster wants to come back to Facebook when it’s full of people who call them “youngsters”. And the final nail in the coffin, Facebook’s own fault, is its desperate, last ditch effort to climb to the top, by buying the new and hot applications. Facebook has dug its grave, bought a casket, arranged a funeral, and put themselves in their own coffin. The sad part is, no one will be at the funeral. Unlike Vine, no one has gotten extremely famous from Facebook, except maybe Mark Zuckerberg himself. Facebook is gone, and no force on earth can bring it back. Works Cited: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2013/11/13/facebook-wouldve-bought-snapchat-for-3-billion-in-cash-heres-why/#1fa8a35a79ed https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/19/has-facebook-lost-its-edge/?_r=0 https://thepressldn.wordpress.com/science-technology/why-has-facebook-lost-its-edge
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Social media is a big part of this generation’s daily routine. Whether you use technology to stay in touch with long distance friends, keep up with the latest trends, or just for entertainment, it’s more than likely that you’ve heard of Facebook. Many people think this application worth $53.6 billion has “lost its edge”. This simply isn’t true; Facebook is only getting bigger.
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