The end is near! Facebook will soon die out like 'the plague' FACEBOOK will eventually die out "like the bubonic plague" according to a team of American scientists.
FINISHED? A report argues that people are slowly becoming immune to Facebook [GETTY]
They predict the site will lose 80 per cent of its users by 2017 and have compared the site's growth with epidemics like the plague.
Mark Zuckerberg's revolutionary creation will celebrate its 10th birthday on February 4 and has already outlasted previous social monsters like MySpace and Bebo.
SKY HIGH: Despite the report Facebook's share value is still sky high [GETTY]
However John Cannarella and Joshua Spechler argue Facebook's days are numbered after discovering Google searches for the site peaked in December 2012 and have since tailed off.“Ideas are spread through communicative contact between different people who share ideas with each other”A report into Facebook's long-term future
"Ideas, like diseases, have been shown to spread infectiously between people before eventually dying out, and have been successfully described with epidemiological models," the pair report in a paper titled Epidemiological modelling of online social network dynamics.
"Ideas are spread through communicative contact between different people who share ideas with each other."
MOBILE BROWSING: Some argue the fall in Google searches for Facebook is due to the growth of smartphones [GETTY]
While the report predicts the rapid fall of the Internet giant, investors don't seem to agree.
Facebook's share price reached a record high this month, valuing the company at £85bn.
Optimists claim the reason for the fall in Google searches is that the vast majority of Facebook's users check the site on mobile devices and not desktop computers - meaning they do not search for the word on the Internet anymore.
