Mark Zuckerberg is about to ruin Facebook for the last group of people who don’t hate it yet

[Andy Meek]

The document dump that Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen supplied to a consortium of news publishers, which began publishing a flurry of stories derived from the documents on Monday, revealed, among other things, that Facebook's leadership has identified a new existential threat to the social networking giant: Old people.

More specifically, the users who remain -- now that Facebook usage among young people continues its inexorable decline.

That, in and of itself, is not news. Everyone has kind of snickered for a while now about how your parents and grandparents are the only ones still hanging around Facebook. You know, while the cool kids have all moved on. Having too many old people comprising the core user base, however, is another way of saying that the number of Facebook-Nevers is also growing. Because, yes, there are the young people who've left. But there are also the young people who will never try the service at all, bypassing it completely. So it was perhaps with those people in mind that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday shared a huge operational shift in the works at Facebook. One that will see the company "retooling" itself and chasing the approval -- and, thus, more usage -- from younger adults.

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