Poking, posting, sharing, friending. Facebook brought these actions into everyday life for people around the world. Is it possible that these words are losing their meaning as Facebook follows Myspace’s lead into the land of misfit media, as they switch to other social media?

“I had a Facebook for about a year and now I don’t even remember my password,” senior Taylor Robbins said. “Twitter seems to be taking over now. Facebook means nothing to me anymore because all I see when I scroll down my newsfeed is useless information.

Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, hit his prime when Facebook hit its prime in 2010-2012 during the most “Facebook active period”. Today, the website people once could not live without, has one billion users. Despite such a large number of accounts, the rate of usage continues declining day by day. Abandoned accounts remain forgotten in cyber space as people went from logging in every hour, to everyday, to every week, now maybe even once a month.

Twitter, Tumblr, Google+, Instagram, and Vine have taken over the world wide web, completely distracting users from their predecessor, Facebook. Now focusing on how many likes a person gets on a profile picture or status, is not nearly as imperative as the number of “retweets” on a tweet, their followers to following ratio, or the amount of hearts on an Instagram throwback.

The lack of innovation within the last few years may be driving the users away. Compared to other media, Facebook is not keeping up with the modernization required to help users feed their urge to “stay connected.” Personal security is also a major concern among users. The privacy settings go from one end of the spectrum where a photo is unable to be seen, to the other end where everyone can see photos, phone numbers, and even addresses without even “friending”, not giving users the freedom or protection they demand.

“I like Tumblr because I can create my own blog. I don’t have to be “friends” with people I don’t want to and my grandma won’t be offended if I delete her comment.” freshman Chelsea Schiffer said. “It is a way for me to scroll down and see things I actually care about, rather than nonsense.”

Even though mathematically, there are more users joining than deactivating, the fanatical craze is slowly diminishing and Facebook is becoming less and less of a big deal as it disappears into a world of forgotten websites.

“Facebook is completely dying. I went from obsessively keeping count of my friends and checking my phone whenever possible during class and now I deleted the app that I would never use.” Sophomore Garet Sokol-Weinstein said. “It is a shame, but that is usually how social media is. In and out within years.”