{"id":3167,"date":"2021-10-08T14:37:50","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T12:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/08\/i-might-delete-it-facebooks-problem-with-younger-users\/"},"modified":"2021-10-08T14:37:50","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T12:37:50","slug":"i-might-delete-it-facebooks-problem-with-younger-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/08\/i-might-delete-it-facebooks-problem-with-younger-users\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I might delete it\u2019: Facebook\u2019s problem with younger users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to leaked research, the firm has found engagement among a key demographic is in decline<\/p>\n<p>Oliver Coughlan embodies Facebook\u2019s problems with teen and young adult audiences \u2013 a growing number of them don\u2019t like it. The 23-year-old says he stopped using Facebook regularly three years ago and he is considering deleting the app. His sole use for it now is to check people\u2019s birthdays.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI haven\u2019t deleted it yet, but I might do soon \u2013 I really don\u2019t like the company\u2019s monopolistic behaviour,\u201d said Oliver, a British student based in the Netherlands. He added that the Brexit referendum and the 2016 US presidential election, and the online anger that accompanied those polls, convinced him that he wanted to spend less time on Facebook\u2019s main platform.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/oct\/08\/i-might-delete-it-facebooks-problem-with-younger-users\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e680344a1c85fca62ad4b5b1132d7561b367a420\/0_6_2545_1528\/master\/2545.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=c1ffda6c9a4e1c1f19c00e5f237e2b37\" title=\"\u2018I might delete it\u2019: Facebook\u2019s problem with younger users\" \/>According to leaked research, the firm has found engagement among a key demographic is in decline<br \/>\nOliver Coughlan embodies Facebook\u2019s problems with teen and young adult audiences \u2013 a growing number of them don\u2019t like it. The 23-year-old says he stopped using Facebook regularly three years ago and he is considering deleting the app. His sole use for it now is to check people\u2019s birthdays.<br \/>\n\u201cI haven\u2019t deleted it yet, but I might do soon \u2013 I really don\u2019t like the company\u2019s monopolistic behaviour,\u201d said Oliver, a British student based in the Netherlands. He added that the Brexit referendum and the 2016 US presidential election, and the online anger that accompanied those polls, convinced him that he wanted to spend less time on Facebook\u2019s main platform. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to leaked research, the firm has found engagement among a key demographic is in decline Oliver Coughlan embodies Facebook\u2019s problems with teen and young adult audiences \u2013 a growing number of them don\u2019t like it. The 23-year-old says he stopped using Facebook regularly three years ago and he is considering deleting the app. His &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/08\/i-might-delete-it-facebooks-problem-with-younger-users\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018I might delete it\u2019: Facebook\u2019s problem with younger users<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}