The company is having essentially an exestential crisis with young people. They think that if they can't get young people to care about facebook and actually keep engaging with instogram, that they'll go into this self-sustaining decay,. Internally, they map their user base to united nations population estimates demographics. And so what is happening is that the audience is getting older, and fewer and fewer young people are coming on.
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