It is known fact that major social networking site, Facebook is losing its visitors from last one year and according to US scientists it will lose 80 percent of users within the next three years. This once king of social networking sites has spread like an infectious disease and will die like a zoonotic plague, said by the researchers at Princeton University.
They predict that the site will be abandoned by large number of users by the year 2017 because of the other competitors in the same category. Facebook is going to celebrate its tenth birthday on February 4 and has survived competitors such as Bebo and MySpace but it will lose 80 per cent of its users in next three years by experts claim.
A prediction, by researchers John Cannarella and Joshua Spechler, based on the number of search terms for Facebook into Google; it peaked in December 2012 and has begun to slide off since then. The corporation is yet to update investors on its updated traffic numbers at the end of the month. Its last October report showed 1.2 billion monthly active users.
Despite the high competition in the market and growing popularity of the other social networking sites such as Snapchat, Twitter and new comer Cooler Facebook Company is releasing its new features to enhance the application to be friendlier with users. Web experts saying that Facebook might have lost desktop visitors as the mobile phone usage is increasing highly in daily life.
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