Is Face book Fading Or Evolving

I recently read an article about that social meeting place darling of the internet, Face book. It seems that Face book is getting too old and stodgy for many of its younger users. and they are leaving or using it less. Use among the Face book crowd has dropped dramatically and those who do log on are using it mostly for what E mail used to be, a way to easily communicate and then leave. Anyway,  according to 'Inside Face book', a web site that studies and analyzes all of those crazy social networks  in the United States, Face book loses about 6 million users each month (of course, world wide it picks up millions of new users as it loses the older ones). It has about 700 million users world wide.

Well, everything has a life span. And when people who log on every day realizes that their life is really not going to change much when using Face book, the appeal of it will wane. Also, many of those leaving Face book say it is too cluttered with junk, all that "like me" nonsense, the photos and  the endless  and mindless postings of what someone is thinking or doing every minute of their lives outside of sitting on the toilet, the ads that are always along side the pages the user navigates, and that (mostly teen users) have reduced their use of Face book in favor of other services and apps (I hate that word!) that avoid the presence of....say... granny... that Face book allows has made it less appealing.

I think Face book has lost it's cool somewhat. It is a normal thing for electronic applications to come and go. Other applications have begun to replace it for many people. Like people, electronic devices and programs get old fast. Remember "MySpace", once also the rage of teens and now hardly a footnote among them and used by few people of any age?  The youngest users are the ones who set the trends in electronics today. Because they have a short attention span and little loyalty to what they have used in the past they like changes. Maybe this will mean that Face book will become more of a program that oldies use as their own, surely not as profitable a platform for the Face book of today but manageable financially for them.

I doubt Face book will disappear as a relevant program any time soon. Older users like me who still embrace original technologies like E mail also need something to use for communication. We don't like the cutsie aspects of today's Face book and will see a more conservative Face book as a better one. I suspect an older and leaner Face book will be amore appealing one for those who will stick with it, because they already know it and are less adventurous electronically. Much of the silly applications in Face book will vanish and the platform may evolve into a simpler basic platform. That's good enough for me, maybe even a big improvement. Thank God someone won't ask me any longer to farm animals on line....