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Mashable / Ruby Karp / Sep 23, 2015

All those anecdotes about the kidz abandoning Facebook en masse had an element of wish fulfillment. —JB

Tags: Facebook, Millennials, teens

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Benton, Joshua. "“I’m 15 and all of my friends use Facebook”." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 23 Sep. 2015. Web. 26 Mar. 2025.

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Benton, J. (2015, Sep. 23). “I’m 15 and all of my friends use Facebook”. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved March 26, 2025, from https://www.niemanlab.org/reading/im-15-and-all-of-my-friends-use-facebook/

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Benton, Joshua. "“I’m 15 and all of my friends use Facebook”." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified September 23, 2015. Accessed March 26, 2025. https://www.niemanlab.org/reading/im-15-and-all-of-my-friends-use-facebook/.

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