Facebook is dead … but maybe not

Teenagers stopped using Facebook as soon as their parents signed on, right? That's what the recent news reports said, but Victoria Turk says they're all wet: "To get to the truth behind these sensational claims, you have to work through a mess of qualitative versus quantitative research, artificially 'sexed-up' academic writing, and lazy journalism with loose headlines." Turk traces the viral story to an anthropologist's blog post and gets his views on his research.

January 13, 2014

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