Facebook's market share has declined by 7.2% in the last six months

[mkbkn]

http://gs.statcounter.com/social-media-stats

[junkcollector]

Given how undiversified Facebook's revenue is; I wonder if they would have a short violent death or a long drawn out one when market share slips.

[zaarn → junkcollector]

Observing that would indeed be interesting, not to mention the amount of quality popcorn to be consumed!

[acidburnNSA]

At least on my account friends don't seem to be engaging nearly as much as they used to. There are like 3 people who are driving conversations but it's pretty dead otherwise. I have tried to stop visiting the site after a recent article here said it was a DoS on the brain.

[hkmurakami → acidburnNSA]

I uncolored anyone who'd post anything political on either side of the direction, and now my timeline is a smattering of humor and travel posts.

I'll get my news elsewhere.

[whatyoucantsay]

Either my experience and that of my social circle is unrepresentative or YouTube is far more successful than these statistics indicate. Facebook may be larger, but it's not 40 times larger.

[LeeHwang]

Is this the beginning of a myspace death spiral ?

I've noticed a lot of younger people moving away from facebook to trendier platforms. Instagram and Periscope? seems to be huge.

[hkmurakami → LeeHwang]

Well FB owns IG so perhaps FB the company will become a holding company for all social products worth anything in the future.

[coldtea]

Karma!

[gourou]

From the FAQ:

> Our tracking code is installed on more than 2 million sites globally. [...] For our social media stats, we analyze every page view referred by a social media site.

Explains why Instagram, Youtube and Pinterest are scoring so low and why Snapchat is absent.

[maltalex]

Any theories as to why?

[ENGNR → maltalex]

My pet theory is they've optimized hard into local maxima for engagement and profitability, at the expense of long term retention

[eurticket → maltalex]

People are ready to move on, Myspace lasted about 6ish? years before becoming overshadowed by Facebook in 2008, and I would consider Facebook becoming the default Social media site by 2010. Users desire a new platform.

[bigleagueposter]

great