Is Facebook Dead? what is your favourite Social media platofrm

Instagram is the new big thing. Get onto that. Seriously - why do you think all the celebrities are now setting up Instagram accounts instead of Twitter? More exposure!

Facebook is useful only to promote some items. Not all

Facebook is not useful if you don't know how to use it or how to engage fans...

I hate Facebook 'cause it's greedy, there's no decent way to get free traffic from it. Though it's great as a PPC platform. My favorite social networks are YouTube and Google Plus. To communicate with close friends and for dating - VK.

Dead? are you dreaming or is just another way of "link baiting" or hits? does your favorite social network come anywhere closer to visitor count of facebook? if not then do you think it will in the near future (1-2 years?). Have you COMPLETELY stopped using FB? When you say "deserting in droves" .... can you backup your claim that FB country wise data has been hit badly?

c'mon ... don't post for the sake of posting or getting hits. Need some clear and well researched stats from comscore etc

Facebook is not dead or dying.............each social network has its Pro's & Con's.

All depends who and what you marketing and where you find the best traffic etc

Have a great weekend and like I keep saying do your research, more research, planning then implement with patience. Things won't happen overnight !!!!!

Facebook certainly has the numbers, I will give them that, but it has reached it's peak and is in decline. I mean seriously, they have the world in their hands and what are they doing with it - 200m profit in one quarter? really. And shares that dived by 50% since IPO. Look at LinkedIn. That is taking off - still.

Numbers from Com Score. Well numbers are numbers, I am just talking about a trend.
teens don't take it seriously anymore - and they are the next wave of users.
Adults never really got over the openness of it all.

Sure for now it's a great place to spam people's timelines with ads, but how long will it last.

Each Social medias has their own advantages and disadvantages... Most probably many will move on their like to Facebook. Facebook gives many information and mostly help to increase the traffic for whatever links you post because most of them are nowadays hanging over in Facebook only

I don't see facebook dying soon. Each day people are advertising and making quite a few bucks on it. Facebook will keep inventing new stuff to keep their customers happy.

In case Facebook is dead they still have lots of money to what they've earned everyday.

It's clear Facebook isn't dead and I'd consider that a rhetorical question. Show me something that will replace it like Facebook did with MySpace that will magically be the big competitor which appeals to especially the younger generation(s). Google Plus doesn't cut it (yet).

If your not using FaceBook something is seriously wrong. You can use Free or Paid methods to generate well over a full time income on FaceBook.

The #1 rule to sales is to create relationships, Know/Like/Trust and FaceBook socially does that on auto-pilot for you. If you know how to engage your audience, provide value and grow your audience, FaceBook is a gold mine.

Facebook is fine. I'm sure overtime it will lose traffic but seems stable right now.

facebook is not deat but yes it has lost the charm it had couple of year back,
Google plus seems to be overtaking it, Instagram has also increased it users very fast and provided good opportunities for businesses.

Twitter is my favorite. If you take the time to become an authority in a niche it can pay huge dividends.

As far as PPC goes facebook can be a great resource. You have the ability of ultra targeting your customer base and retargeting as well.

Just need to understand facebook properly ... you will gain whatever you want :p

Facebook is best way to promoting your business as well as getting more traffic and leads..

Facebook is not dead. Just depends on your market and how you connect with them/use Facebook to connect with them. Some industries other social sites are probably a lot better than Facebook but definitely is not dead

I would suggest Social Bookmarking sites rather than Social Media. Sites like Reddit and Technorati gives you fast and easy traffic.

If traffic is the only thing there are still better options available than Reddit etc, but what is important is that target audience is mostly on Facebook, you can't see any better insights of your campaigns like you do in Facebook, so it's always a better option to market your product where the traffic is actually buying anything from you.

Definitely not! I'm still getting great numbers from Facebook and it currently is one of my primary sources of traffic. Plus, it is a great platform to get solid social backlinks

Well, Facebook is dying to me.

My page http://facebook.com/glutenfreeworks (remove link if improper) with 115,000 likes saw it's organic reach divebomb the day after I finished my first test ad campaign on March 12. I had over 200,000 people engaged. It was 117,000 yesterday. Now you can see it is just 85,000. 4,000,000 weekly reach is now 600,000 and dropping every day. After a week of testing, I am 100% positive the trigger was advertising. It seems once they think you're a business, it doesn't matter how much your fans like your content. Facebook won't show it to them. I'm a blogger who makes part of my money through Adsense so traffic is key.

I just called Facebook advertising to inquire about advertising programs - $1,500 for a month campaign to reach 200,000 to 250,000. I read that Facebook execs are saying organic reach could hit zero eventually. It's a shame, but now I only plan to advertise individual products and not worry so much about growing the page. Why grow likes if your people can't see your posts? There's no point in wasting the time. I'm putting together info products to sell and that is what I plan to advertise on Facebook. That and growing my e-mail list.

To anyone reading this post who grew their page organically - DO NOT ADVERTISE ON FACEBOOK.

facebook is still alive but nowadays people are into instagram.

You can have user engagement on Facebook once you are only familiar with it.

It's not dead, but public opinion about it is falling. They now basically require people to pay in order to ensure that all of their friends see their important updates. People don't like that.

Lots of people use AdBlock anyway.

I much prefer Twitter. (unless and until they go public too = get greedy)

With 1 Billion users around the world, Face Book will never die.

Facebook is far from dead. It's a matter of paying attention to what their strategies and TOS are and constantly modifying what you're doing to match them.

Look at Facebook as a big billboard the size of the Moon. Everyone everywhere can see it and can't avoid it. Sometimes it's a half Moon, sometimes it's a full Moon. Putting your ad or promo on it and keeping it there means people will see it and reach for it.

The problem is people abusing the system as people will ordinarily do and that pisses off Facebook as it makes them liable for their crap.

Do the honest job and you'll gain from Facebook.

Facebook is anything but dead.

Think of Facebook as being a billboard as big as the Moon.

Sometimes it's a half Moon and sometimes a full Moon. Your presence is going to be
seen no matter what but that calls for an ethical presence. So many scammers
and hucksters all over FB now that you can't keep things stable as FB is up against
legal problems because of the people who abuse their services.

Best thing is to do is keep on top of their TOS and strategies and be honest
business people.

My SM money maker is Pinterest. It suits best to my strategy. I made a book about it. PM me if you want to know more...

I think each social media platform has it's positives and negatives. How you use each platform is determined by the type of business you are. For my business, I currently use Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook, Google+, and LinkedIn for social media.

face is my fav social network. I am still trying to understand how it works.

No way, facebook is still growing, it is just there is proper way to leverage it's potential, only those how know can get best from it

Facebook and Twitter, still works well for me. I don't think its dead, some people just don't know how to use it haha! *peace*

Facebook is far from dead... in fact, it's a great traffic source for my business and we use it for different monetization methods.

Your friends might be leaving it in droves, but there's more and more people hopping on... and it's only getting bigger.

Your audience is out there... have you tried different targeting options/audiences?

My advice, ride it while it's good... because it's good right now!

Facebook work really good. I am still working on Fb.

Facebook is still leading it is not going to dead
Pinterest is my favorite social media platform

facebook is not dead but its even growing There is no other platform that drives traffic it it in such a large number. And in my opinion the second is Twitter.
It completely depends on you how you use facebook for your ourpose. Believe me if you use facebook in a right way for your business it can really turn your destiny and you gonna rock the world. Thanks ! Best of luck

I think so facebook is getting bored for more peoples....

First of all facebook can't be dead,since it is used by lot of users and has establish it's own popularity,one can easily drive traffic by using social activities as well as gain the popularity of their site or brand by using the promotion activities through the use of social media activities

I gotta agree with JamesLeeOnline, Instagram (which is owned by Facebook) is smoking hot right now.

I can update my Facebook Page, Twitter, LinkedIn (via Twitter) Tumblr, Flicker and Foursquare with one post. I can also reach a larger audience by using many #hashtags and not have to pay Facebook PPC.

Boom !!!

James is right.

Social media is not dead, lots of stuff still happening you need to learn to work smarter and not spam in this enviroment that is al.

Facebook and Instagram are my favorite when it comes to generating business and new leads, they've both proven to make a significant positive impact.

I would be wary of Facebook in respect to results; I've read too many articles now - search Adweek - where marketers are complaining about the ctr and overall performance of FB ads.