Teenagers are ditching their Facebook accounts in droves, according to newly-published research into social networking habits across Europe by Global Social Media Impact study.

Instead of Facebook, youngsters are gravitating to the likes of Snapchat, WhatsApp, Twitter and Facebook-owned Instagram, where their parents are less likely to be monitoring their activity or asking them what time they’re going to be home for tea.

According to Daniel Miller, a professor at University College London and lead anthropologist on the research team, “Facebook is not just on the slide – it is basically dead and buried.”

Social networks are sometimes just a fashion that ties and fall to the next new social network. But there are too many people on Facebook for it to be dead and buried.