Washington, Jan 24- Facebook may have spread like an infectious disease but is slowly losing its appeal, say researchers at Princeton University.
The Guardian quoted John Cannarella and Joshua Spechler of the US university’s mechanical and aerospace engineering department as saying that ideas, like diseases, have been shown to spread infectiously between people before eventually dying out.
Facebook will be largely abandoned by 2017, say the researchers.
Their predictions are based on the number of times Facebook is typed into Google as a search term – with searches having peaked in December 2012 but trailing off since.
One reason for the decline in desktop traffic is due to the 870 million users accessing the social network via their mobile phones.
Facebook’s chief financial officer David Ebersman told The Guardian: “We did see a decrease in daily users, specifically among younger teens.”
-Indiatoday
