Is Facebook getting boring? Join the debate

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Facebook has become a daily schedule or practice for a lot of people, especially teenagers, “kind of like brushing your teeth,” according to Daniel Singer, 13, who is an application designer.

Singer who has developed and application called “YouTell,” says that teenagers want more from Facebook these days. He says that it has become boring and they need to liven it up to keep the interest of the younger generation.

Rachel Fernandez, who joined Facebook about four years ago, tends to agree with Singer. She says that “When I first got Facebook I literally thought it was the coolest thing to have. If you had a Facebook you kind of fit in better, because other people had one.” Fernandez now says that it has become kind of boring.

According to a new study from the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project, most people seem to agree with these comments. They found that most of the younger generation stopped thinking of Facebook as being “cool” when their grandmother joined it.

The research shows that about 61 percent of those who used to use Facebook everyday have now stopped from using it so much. The reasons given vary from, boredom from the same routine to people using it to gossip or create drama too much. Some admitted the reason was because Facebook took up too much of their time.

Since Facebook makes most of its money from targeted advertising, approximately $5.1 billion last year, they could seriously lose out if people don’t use it as often.

However, Facebook doesn’t seem to be suffering, so far. An estimated 618 million of its over 1 billion users sign in to Facebook every day and there are more people signing up for the service than those who are leaving it.

Singer says that he enjoys “designing beautiful user interfaces and sitting down at my desk and creating great iOS apps,” according to his Facebook profile. YouTell, an application that Singer created, allows people to ask friends for anonymous feedback.

Singer went on to say that although he thinks Facebook’s graphical design is “brilliant,” teenagers want something more. He expanded on this by saying that such apps as Twitter, Instagram and Pheed seem to be offering more choices of what to do.

Facebook was started seven years ago by Mark Zuckerberg while he was at Harvard. It has since grown to such proportions that an estimated one-seventh of the world’s population log in at least once a month, from its small beginnings of a closed social-networking service around Zuckerberg’s college campus.

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