Notations From the Grid (Weekly Edition): On the Life of Social Networks

As we picked this up during our daily curation over the "Grid" on Twitter , sometimes a picture is worth a billion words especially as the controversy over Facebook and Cambridge Analytica continues to mushroom:

This google trends screenshot shows the relative importance of various social networks over time. Even Facebook could die a quick death and end in obscurity. People care about their privacy even if they are lazy creatures of habit. Source: https://t.co/egojmxTbyY pic.twitter.com/yCgYzFKWQY

— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) March 29, 2018