<story><title>Facebook admits 18% of Research spyware users were teens, not 5%</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/28/facebook-research-teens/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>theNJR</author><text>Small groups are for sure becoming popular. I’m surprised that your daughter is doing that through Discord vs a messenger app. Is she a gamer?</text></item><item><author>moosey</author><text>Of course it was.  From a future revenue perspective, it absolutely makes sense that facebook would focus on young people, so any research done into the future of facebook and its revenue _must_ include a decent number of young people.  I imagine that they are having little success in getting young people to join and interact on facebook, especially because it is being heavily leveraged for international political pressure.&lt;p&gt;Given current social and political realities, though, and a series of deeply troubling news stories coming out of facebook, I think it might have lost a very large segment of young people that will never join or return.  I watch my 15 yo daughter interact with people online, and she has no interest at all in facebook, and her interest in instragram is waning.  Currently, her primary interaction space is discord.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve heard semi-private chat rooms are what is going to be popular, and I expect that we&amp;#x27;re going to see that kind of thing in facebook soon.  I wish them luck (not really) building a revenue model on it that matches what they currently expect.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Shish2k</author><text>I think at this point discord is the new IRC, a generic chat platform for communities, organised by interest - nearly all the same benefits of IRC vs Messenger apps, with the additional benefit that somebody cares enough to make it user-friendly. A shame that it&amp;#x27;s closed-source and centralised though :(</text></comment>
<story><title>Facebook admits 18% of Research spyware users were teens, not 5%</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/28/facebook-research-teens/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>theNJR</author><text>Small groups are for sure becoming popular. I’m surprised that your daughter is doing that through Discord vs a messenger app. Is she a gamer?</text></item><item><author>moosey</author><text>Of course it was.  From a future revenue perspective, it absolutely makes sense that facebook would focus on young people, so any research done into the future of facebook and its revenue _must_ include a decent number of young people.  I imagine that they are having little success in getting young people to join and interact on facebook, especially because it is being heavily leveraged for international political pressure.&lt;p&gt;Given current social and political realities, though, and a series of deeply troubling news stories coming out of facebook, I think it might have lost a very large segment of young people that will never join or return.  I watch my 15 yo daughter interact with people online, and she has no interest at all in facebook, and her interest in instragram is waning.  Currently, her primary interaction space is discord.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve heard semi-private chat rooms are what is going to be popular, and I expect that we&amp;#x27;re going to see that kind of thing in facebook soon.  I wish them luck (not really) building a revenue model on it that matches what they currently expect.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>setr</author><text>Discord has become a pretty standard messaging app for non-gaming communities for a while now. Its getting to the point where it can simply be thought of as big.</text></comment>