Thursday, January 2, 2014

Facebook's 'Teen Problem' Is More of a Media Problem

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Facebook may have a teen problem. Maybe


Facebook does, however, have a media problem around the now widely adopted perception that teens are abandoning the site, or using it less. Or something. Nobody seems quite sure


On top of that, a good chunk of Facebook's media coverage is happy to operate under the assumption that if Facebook did have a teen problem, it should be regarded as a serious issue for the site.


The newest round of hand wringing started after The Guardian published a story quoting Daniel Miller, an anthropologist in the UK, who declared Facebook "dead and buried" among teens


Media outlets across the globe piled on, thought many pointed to the quite limited scale of the studyMiller has since written that the blog post, which was the basis for The Guardian's story, was meant to be a small piece of a study about teens in the UK and not a reflection of wider trends. Read more...


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