# What comes after Facebook? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 30, 2018, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comes-after-facebook/815119 "2018-05-30T10:46:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2018, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comes-after-facebook/815119/21 "2018-05-31T11:36:10Z")
I believe teens still use FB to both gain friends and direct them towards their other “cool” social media apps. ---
**Author:** ![SantaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@SantaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SantaMan)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2018, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comes-after-facebook/815119/22 "2018-05-31T13:26:56Z")
BTW, how did FB take the lead from MySpace? Could that give us hints on what would take the lead from FB ? ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2018, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comes-after-facebook/815119/23 "2018-05-31T14:47:38Z")
> [@SantaMan](#): > > BTW, how did FB take the lead from MySpace? Could that give us hints on what would take the lead from FB ? MyFace or SpaceBook, what will it be? ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2018, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comes-after-facebook/815119/24 "2018-05-31T16:40:45Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > I believe teens still use FB to both gain friends and direct them towards their other “cool” social media apps. Yes. They just don’t talk about it as much anymore. The claims that teens don’t use Facebook seem to be based on reports that teenagers say it isn’t cool, rather than actual numbers. > [@](#): > > So, I decided to take a look at some hard facts. According to our most recent public data release (The Infinite Dial 2014), Facebook is currently used by nearly 80% of Americans 12-17 and 18-24 (and you can learn more about our sampling methodology here.) In fact, articles that trumpet Facebook’s lack of growth with these demographics are missing the point—Facebook is nearing its practical limit with young Americans. [New Data Demonstrates Teens are Not Abandoning Facebook](http://www.convinceandconvert.com/social-media-research/new-data-demonstrates-teens-are-not-abandoning-facebook/) ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2018, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comes-after-facebook/815119/25 "2018-05-31T17:07:33Z")
> [@Doug\_K](#): > > Yes. They just don’t talk about it as much anymore. The claims that teens don’t use Facebook seem to be based on reports that teenagers say it isn’t cool, rather than actual numbers. > > [New Data Demonstrates Teens are Not Abandoning Facebook](http://www.convinceandconvert.com/social-media-research/new-data-demonstrates-teens-are-not-abandoning-facebook/) Errr… that article is from 2014. Try [here](https://www.recode.net/2018/2/12/16998750/facebooks-teen-users-decline-instagram-snap-emarketer) or [here…](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/feb/16/parents-killed-it-facebook-losing-teenage-users) … or how about [today](https://phys.org/news/2018-05-facebook-fast-teens-survey.html) ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2018, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comes-after-facebook/815119/26 "2018-05-31T17:16:46Z")
> [@Doug\_K](#): > > Yes. They just don’t talk about it as much anymore. The claims that teens don’t use Facebook seem to be based on reports that teenagers say it isn’t cool, rather than actual numbers. > [New Data Demonstrates Teens are Not Abandoning Facebook](http://www.convinceandconvert.com/social-media-research/new-data-demonstrates-teens-are-not-abandoning-facebook/) Well, here are some actual numbers. From Pew Research Center. > **[Facebook sinking fast among US teens: survey](https://phys.org/news/2018-05-facebook-fast-teens-survey.html)** > > Facebook is rapidly losing ground against rival internet platforms in attracting and keeping US teenagers, a survey showed Thursday. Old people Facebook. Young people are using Instagram (already owned by Facebook), and Snapchat (just turned down a $3 Billion offer from Facebook), they will cave eventually when the price it right. Facebook will age out, much like this message board has been doing for the last several years. Facebook is buying the new platforms that younger people are moving to, so they don’t really care about keeping all the users at FB, they will still have the users only on different sites. Nice pictures as always, Janice. I have terminal brain cancer. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2018, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comes-after-facebook/815119/27 "2018-05-31T17:17:27Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > This. Which means the next true replacement social medium will be urine stains and scratch markings on trees & prominent rocks… When my friend walks her dogs she says they’re “checking their p-mail.” ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2018, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comes-after-facebook/815119/28 "2018-05-31T17:22:02Z")
> [@GESancMan](#): > > Facebook isn’t cool _because_ we are there. Just like in real life, my daughter doesn’t want to hang out in the same places I do, where I can see everything she does or says. Yup, I think this is really the key. And I think that this dynamic has also driven the evolution of language itself – younger people wanting a differentiated group identity. If older people criticize them because the way they talk is “corrupting” the English language - that’s mission accomplished. ---
**Author:** ![The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2018, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comes-after-facebook/815119/29 "2018-05-31T17:24:22Z")
> [@Jasmine](#): > > To answer that question, I need to know what it is that Facebook isn’t doing that could give rise to a new super app. What I see is, “nothing”. Facebook has words, pictures, videos, and a real time function for people to use while they are actually at an event. The insulation provided by its public/friends structure and the ability to target just specific friends for specific posts is very good. It’s birthday and event notifications are very helpful. I just can’t imagine at this point what new app could show up and say, “Hey, look what I can do that Facebook can’t!” Since we all have no idea and are just throwing out theories anyways … When we look at previous empires that have been overthrown, such as the ones listed in the OP, the “next big thing” didn’t offer additional functionality, it just offered the existing functionality in a better format. In fact, IIRC, I think MySpace had functionality Facebook didn’t have, but it wound up making for a less sleek, less intuitive, and less user-friendly format. AIM was edged out by messaging features within Facebook, Gmail, and just general texting on the phone, and the advantage there was you were already doing something else within the interface, and it was more convenient to just send messages through the same interface. Thinking along those lines, there are a few options I can envision: (1) A phone interface. Facebook is an app you have to download, but imagine if by exchanging phone numbers with a person, you had the option to view their photos, see status updates, etc. just by highlighting the number in your phone. And if you could set the privacy settings right on your phone, without going to a website or downloading anything. Phones are so ubiquitous that I could see something specifically designed for a handheld device overtaking something designed for a computer. (2) A news site. Facebook used to be about people creating a profile explaining their interests, then became more about real-time photos and status updates, and I feel like right now it’s an awful lot about sharing news articles. If a news-based site could capitalize upon this, where the central feature is news (not just current events, but also really specific stuff, like new movie releases and award shows and sports and stuff) and communicating with friends is centered around that, I could see that succeeding. (3) A shopping site. This is where I feel like another website could capitalize on something Facebook isn’t doing. Facebook has tried to create a Marketplace, and from what I can tell, it’s flopped. If some other website can come in and create a much better place where people can buy and sell their own stuff, and then also offer birthday reminders and event invitations and all that jazz, I think that could fill a niche. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2018, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comes-after-facebook/815119/30 "2018-05-31T17:25:10Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > …Which means the next true replacement social medium will be urine stains… So as I march inexorably toward the second incontinent phase of my life, I will come into my own in the social hierarchy. Excellent. ---
**Author:** ![Ucha\_G](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e79b87/32.png) [@Ucha\_G](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ucha_G)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2018, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comes-after-facebook/815119/31 "2018-05-31T21:18:07Z")
Pretty sure Instagram will take over and is taking over. As older people get more tech savvy they will migrate from Facebook over to Instagram to keep in touch with family and friends because pictures and videos. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2018, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comes-after-facebook/815119/32 "2018-05-31T21:35:06Z")
The too-young-to-drive people in my house use Snapchat, Instagram and Music.ly ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2018, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comes-after-facebook/815119/33 "2018-05-31T23:47:02Z")
Dunno. Real Life, maybe? 😕 > [@markn\_1](#): > > I checked the dictionary. “Faced” comes after Facebook. I’m there, almost every night, Baby! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2018, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comes-after-facebook/815119/34 "2018-06-01T17:03:45Z")
> [@pool](#): > > You know what I miss? The days of AOL instant messenger, back in the high school days when all my friends would be on it every night, them were the days. Maybe there is some older generation out there that is wistful for the days of the carrier pigeon. I came across a review of a group of enterprising teenagers who set up a 24/7 party-line telegraph system beginning in 1903: [Amateur Number One: Party line telegraph](http://earlyradiohistory.us/1917tg.htm). ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2018, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comes-after-facebook/815119/35 "2018-06-01T19:03:11Z")
It’ll be an amalgam of Myspace, Twitter, and Facebook. MyTwitFace [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comes-after-facebook/815119.md?page=1)