How Instagram and Snapchat Are Benefiting From Facebook’s Declining Teen and Tween Numbers

Young adults are drifting away from the social network

We’ve heard this before, and eMarketer is forecasting it yet again: Teens and young adults are drifting away from Facebook.

Emarketer released its latest forecast on U.S. mobile and internet usage, and the research company sees double-digit gains for Instagram and Snapchat in 2017, while the opposite is true for the parent company of the former.

According to eMarketer, although monthly Facebook users will rise 2.4 percent in 2017, the 12-17 age group will slide by 3.4 percent, marking the second consecutive year of decline for that age group (it fell 1.2

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