Facebook is facing a full blown crisis after several stories have dropped showing this may be the beginning of the end for the company. It was recently reported the platform. Fifteen million users in the past couple years and well, that's not a whole lot. Towards total user base, its mostly millennials young people don't find the platform valley, anymore and are leaving were now learning that several deals, Facebook made are being criminally investigated and agree. The jury, has supported some of the companies that are working with Facebook and on top of that, two of Facebook top executives have just left. The company mark Zuckerberg is desperately trying to restructure the product. They offer to make it more valuable, but it would seem like it's working today. Let's take a look at the various new stories that show Facebook, maybe on the way out Will we get started? Make sure you're subscribes to our new? You, too, gentle Youtube outcome Slash sub, verse, videos, the goal,

but this channel is to produce straight lace, news, export interviews and on the ground reporting, so we can try and but out as much of the buys in Spain as possible, but we're not perfect so we're doing our best. But we want to support these videos just share them on social media top spread the message our first story from just last week: Facebook is, rapidly losing millennials. U S! User base down fifteen million, since twenty seventeen older users are taken up. A larger percentage of the platform than ever according to a recent study by Edison Research, Facebook is hemorrhaging uses in the US, losing my fifteen million people since two thousand and seventeen, the largest drop, is among millennials as of February two thousand and nineteen at sixty two percent of twelve to thirty four year olds, in the U Dot S login to Facebook. This is down,

seventy nine percent and twenty seventeen and represents about eleven million of the overall decrease. The thirty five to fifty four age group has also seen a three percent decline of the last two years, with sixty nine percent of people using Facebook now versus seventy two and twenty seventeen, while the? U S, population on Facebook, continues to shrink. Facebook is reporting overall growth globally. This news helps quantify report from February twenty eighteen that showed Facebook was losing younger users to newer hyper platforms, such a snapshot and instagram, interestingly, or perhaps strategically

The majority of the users leaving Facebook in twenty nineteen are going to end surround, which is a facebook owned entity, but a Klein in the millennial science may be a result of younger folks being more tech, savvy and aware of the consequences of facebooks data and privacy policies. Now here's this is important in the coming years. Young people will start obviously getting older, and if there is on the platform and people younger than the current younger generation, doc on the platform than the trend is clear. Going into the future, people will not be using. Facebook is going to be an old tool. Kind of like a well was at a certain point. Young people stopped using a Well to log onto the internet and just got cable and were permanently on the internet, and that's where we are now back. In the day when I was growing up, you had to sign into a well to connect to the internet. It seems like Facebook is going this route as young people use it less. Ten or fifteen years go by there's going to be substantially less people on the platform, but the fur

story mentions how younger people may be aware of the privacy issues when using facebook, and maybe that's why they're leaving amid this mark Zuckerberg is looking at a new privacy focused vision. However, this story from the daily mail Facebook loses two top execs as C p. O Chris Cox what's up Vp Chris Daniel step down. On the same day, a week after Mark Zuckerberg unveiled new privacy focused vision. A source, familiar situation, told Buzzfeed NEWS that Cox's departure may have been tied to a disagreement over Zuckerberg new privacy. Focused strategy for faced The firm is also losing what's at Vice President Chris Daniels Zuckerberg, who announced departures and a blog posts on Thursday, explain them. Those com, as Facebook has settled, on a strategy for the future of its family of apps centred around enabling encryption and inter operability between the APS. It isn't entirely clear why they're losing his exit

jobs. But these string of stories spell bad news. Many people feel that Mark Zuckerberg is trying to shift into privacy focused apps because he's losing young people. Young people like snapchat Snapchat, is where you post a message, and then it's gone later, and perhaps this is why young people don't want to be on Facebook. They know they can get in trouble later. There are tons of stories of people digging up old posts and getting people in trouble for it. So young people, probably looking for something more privacy or encryption, focused mark Zuckerberg. Is chasing after this, and in response were hearing, many people are leaving the company and while those stories paint a negative trend for facebooks future, it gets worse than your times report. Just a few days ago, facebooks data deals are under criminal investigation. Federal prosecutors are conducting a criminal investigation into data deals. Facebook struck with some of the world's largest technology companies, intensifying scrutiny of the social media giants. Business practices as its

takes two rebound from a year of scandal and setbacks. A grand jury in New York has subpoenaed records from at least two prominent makers of smartphones and other devices. According to two people who are familiar with the requests and who insisted on anonymity to discuss confidential legal matters, both companies had entered into partnerships with Facebook gaining broad access to the personal information of hundreds of millions of its users. The companies were among more than one hundred and fifty, including Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and Sony that had cut sharing deals with the world's dominant social media platform. The agreements previously reported in the New York Times let the company c users, friends, contact information and other data, sometimes without consent, where cooperate with investigators and take those probe seriously. A Facebook spokesman said in a statement

We ve provided public testimony, answered questions and pledge that we will continue to do so. It is not clear when the grand jury inquiry, overseen by prosecutors with the United States attorney's office for the Eastern District of New York began or exactly what it is focusing on. Facebook was already facing scrutiny by the Federal Trade Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department. Securities fraud unit began investigating after a ports at Cambridge Analytical, a political, consulting firm had improperly obtained the facebook date of eighty seven million people and use it to build tools that helped president trumps election campaign, the Justice Department and the eastern district lines to comment for the article aside from the criminal investigation, the scrutiny from federal regulators, the loss of executives and the bleeding of users. There are

other reasons why many people probably dont, want to be on the platform. It was recently announced that Facebook was going to de rank certain content and that that inadvertently, given access to your private messages to major tech giants, the story from the New York Post in December Facebook reportedly gave tech giants access to users. Private messages. Facebook gave Netflix an Spotify. The ability to read users, private messages; they allowed Microsoft, search engine being to see the names of facebook, users, friends without permission, and they let Amazon FF can you search names and contact information at through their friends on the platform? According to the report, in a statement to the post on Netflix spokesperson said at no time did we access people's private messages on Facebook or ask for the ability to do so, but times report raises concerns about Facebook's, two thousand and eleven agreement with the Federal Trade Commission, which states

cannot share user data without explicit permission. This is just giving third parties permission to harvest data without you being informed of it or giving consent to it. David Vladic, who ran the empty seats Consumer Protection Bureau told the times. I don't understand how this unconnected to data harvesting at all be justified under the consent decree- and this is one of the stories alluded to in the New York Times, but I want to make sure I clarified it wasn't just access to your friends, information or your contact information, but literally the private messages you sent to people and, as Netflix pointed out, didn't even ask for it without even asking for this information. Facebook was giving it away and it wasn't that long ago,

that Facebook de ranked brand pages on Facebook, so that you would see more posts from your friends and family, but this led to a significant traffic decrease for many news outlets and a loss of revenue, meaning Facebook has not only becomes scary for the average user because they're giving away your information, but major brands are using less because Facebook has stripped them of their ability to reach an audience. Facebook is just becoming less and less useful for everybody, and there are still more news. It's not just these stories. There was a massive facebook and Instagram outage just the other day. This from sky NEWS, Facebook and Instagram back up after massive global outage users across the globe are venting their frustration at the outages which hit faced services since Thursday evening users across the world, including the? U S, Japan, New Zealand and parts of europe- were affected by the outage and face difficulties accessing the social network giant and its up. What's up and Instagram

several hours in a statement to sky news. On Thursday evening, a Facebook spokesperson said yesterday we made a server configuration change that triggered a cascading series of issues. As a result, many people had difficulty accessing our absence services. We have resolved the issues and our systems have been recovering over the last few hours. We are very sorry for it can mean and we appreciate everyone's patients. Another reason I feel at stories important in this context is not only our people getting frustrate with crappy service, but it seems like they made server changes following mark soccer, bergs new vision. After a wave of controversy, privacy issues scandal. After scanned author scandal, they started bleeding users mark Zuckerberg announced you want to privacy focused series of apps. They make some server changes and it just screwed everything up. I'd have to imagine many people, just I'll write abandoned the platforms as soon as the outer happened, because it's just too burdensome to deal with, although I'm sure most people are still using the APS, they are bleeding users and I'm sure this only

made things worse in a story from the seventh from Rico. They say this could be the beginning of the end for facebooks social network. So it's not just my opinion. Many people feel this way. Facebook is pushing more deeply into private encrypted communication. What does that mean for your news feet? Unfortunately, all of this news to me seems too little too late. People wanted these functions when Snapchat came out for those are not familiar with Snapchat. You can share messages, post photos and video. And they eventually disappear. People wanted that feature. Facebook didn't offer it, and now it's several years later and they're talking about privacy, you, we have already lost fifteen plus million users you're already, leading millennials, I dont think anything you can do will save you from the problems that you didn't see and I don't blame facebook they couldn't recognizes. There are massive company, the changes are happening and they couldn't move quickly enough. But now, where we at Facebook losing users, they lost two of their top exacts there under criminal invested.

And they keep getting pulled into these scandals around leaking people's private information. The negative press can't be good for the platform and, unfortunately I don't think this is going to solve the problem there too late. Admittedly, they are gaining users for Instagram, with which they own and what's up as well as messenger, are still useful. I gotta say it's been years since I've actually used Facebook. The way a regular person would mostly because too many people have added me and I just dont, really communicate with very many people anymore. I kind of just use messenger and I think, Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook can see that. But all this really means face Look as we know, it is probably already dead and again, not just my opinion, but many people are talking about it. Is this a good thing? I mean honestly, I don't know because I dont really use Facebook anymore, but let me what you think in the comments below will keep the conversation going. How do you feel about this news? Is it good,

People are finally moving away from Facebook. It's now mostly a thirty year old and of platform as young people flee and one more privacy and more intimate messaging pocketbook sees that he's chasing it. Is that a good thing, and do you think you'll be to recapture those people you lost and other platforms, but, like I said, Instagram is growing at below give the conversation going you can follow. The on mines add minds that comes lifetime, cast stay tuned, new videos every day at four p m, I have more videos on my second channel Youtube outcomes. Lashed Timcast news had six pm eastern time. Thanks bring it up, we'll see you all next time.