Facebook 'Parents killed it': why Facebook is losing its teenage users This year more than 3 million under-25s in the UK and US are expected to leave the site About 44% of Snapchat’s users are aged 18 to 24, compared with 20% of Facebook’s. “I don’t know if I should say this, but I think Facebook might shut down one day,” she says. The youth exodus is being balanced by older users joining, and the first users of Facebook are moving into their 30s and 40s. Alina says she uses Snapchat rather than Facebook but doesn’t think Facebook is full of old people, just “more middle-aged people, like in their 30s and 40s”. Twitter is not as bad.” Emily also uses Twitter, and that’s where she gets most of her news.

Source: The Guardian February 16, 2018 16:08 UTC