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Who else should join ? Don't they have 99% market penetration in the US?


New people being born and becoming of age.


Ah, but younglings flock to the IM platform-de-jour instead of Facebook. Right now that's SnapChat and WhatsApp. Most 13 year olds have no interest in Facebook as it's considered uncool[1]. This attitude has been in place for a few years now. Couple that with more and more established users leaving the platform, and you start to see the decline that's being reported.

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[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/02...


I know a lot of people that created Facebook accounts for their kids.




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