[k_kelly]

I feel like teens are the stick used to beat Facebook because they've never really been the ones who fanatically used it.

This study seems to constantly come out saying teens are using x messenger app. Facebook isn't a messaging system like Snapchat or WhatsApp. It's a repo for social contacts and experiences, which is why it has a symbiotic relationship with messaging apps (people sent texts while Facebook was only on the web! Facebook is losing ground to texts!).

Of the four Twitter and Instagram are the competitors but both lack the walled garden that Facebook offers. Facebook for all it's privacy concerns makes these look like a safe-house.

Instagram treads the role of messaging app and social network best, and is owned by Facebook and is deeply integrated. That doesn't seem like a dead and buried social network.