Facebook lost users, leaving 6 million

In the U.S. and Canada, Facebook, the prince of social networks, began to falter. In May, the number of users reduced by 6 million people in the United States, from 155,200,000 at the beginning of the month to 1,489,400,000  at the end. And the trend is similar in neighboring Canada, according to Inside Facebook, the specialized blog that follows step by step the social network of Mark Zuckerberg.
Overall, things continue to go well for Facebook, with nearly 700 million users worldwide, while there are more voices than one about a new entry in the stock exchange next year, with an IPO that could generate revenues of up to 100 billion dollars. On Zuckerberg is still pending a large uncertainty, because the action of the rowers, Winklevoss twins, Cameron and Tyler, could end up in the coming months in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. As the movie The Social Network tells, the two claim to have been cheated by Zuckerberg who offered them $ 65 million in 2008.
But it's also true that Cameron and Tyler had accepted the sum at the time, only to realize that it was a really low amount of money, just seen the value of Facebook. While Facebook started to hear the first tunes of crisis, social network like Twitter and LinkedIn continue to pull, even in the United States. Twitter, in particular, became number two in the U.S., Britain, Germany, France and Australia. According to industry experts, Facebook is starting to saturate the U.S. market, where opportunities for growth now appear to be very low: for this reason it is suggested to Zuckerberg to turn more and more to European and Asian markets, with ample room for growth potential . Part of the phenomenon of slowing U.S. and Canada, however, is considered seasonal. In early summer many students are erased from the social network, embarrassing to leave no traces on the web (booze and parties, for example), which could compromise the search for a first job. So there are pressures of the parents of underage students, worried about the protection of privacy or for bullying, more and more common in the U.S., linked to social networks.