If you view Facebook as a plague on social dynamic , you might not be far wrong . Researchers from Princeton University claimthat the social web ’s popularity has spread like an infective disease — but , as we slowly become resistant to its magic spell , it will snuff it out .
By comparing theuptake of Facebook to growth bender of epidemics , the scientists take that — just like the bubonic plague — Facebook will bit by bit begin to fade away . They go further than that , too , exact that Facebook will fall back 80 percentage of its peak user root within the next three years . The researchers write in a papercurrently published on the arXiv waiter :
“ idea , like disease , have been shown to propagate contagiously between people before finally dying out , and have been successfully describe with epidemiologic models … Ideas are spread out through communicative inter-group communication between different the great unwashed who share estimation with each other . estimation manifesters in the end lose interest with the idea and no longer evidence the idea , which can be recall of as the gain of ‘ granting immunity ’ to the idea . ”
John Cannarella and Joshua Spechler , both from Princeton , modelled societal web using equation usually used to map the spread and convalescence of epidemics . They then tested them on data cumulate from MySpace to check they accurately pose boom and crash , and then applied them to Facebook . In turn , they bring forth the prognostication that the site ’s substance abuser count will drop by 80 percent before 2017 .
Of course , it ’s not clean-cut that par used to model epidemics will accurately predict Facebook ’s decline — there are so many factors in the potential achiever or failure of the web site that such par are always bind to simplify the problem . But with Facebook ’s chief fiscal policeman David Ebersman admitting lately that the site “ did see a decrease in daily users , specifically among young adolescent ” in the last three calendar month , you never know . [ arXivviaGuardian ]
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