--- title: "Social Media Marketing: Facebook is Boring? | Headjam" description: Social media marketing is super important these days, and changing fast. Facebook has lost its cool factor with teen audiences who now Snapchat or WhatsApp screen-grabs of friend requests from their parents with the caption image: https://spreadable.headjam.com.au/hubfs/Headjam%20May2018/Images/headjam_seo.png --- [Headjam logo](https://www.headjam.com.au) [+61 2 4929 1154](tel:+61249291154) [Work](https://www.headjam.com.au/portfolio) [About](https://www.headjam.com.au/what-we-do) [What we do](https://www.headjam.com.au/what-we-do)[Meet the team](https://www.headjam.com.au/meet-the-team)[Awards](https://www.headjam.com.au/awards) [Spreadable](https://spreadable.headjam.com.au/spreadable) [Contact](https://www.headjam.com.au/contact-us) # Social Media Marketing: Facebook is Boring? [![Luke Kellett](https://spreadable.headjam.com.au/hs-fs/hubfs/luke-kellett-avatar.png?width=400&height=400&upsize=true&upscale=true&name=luke-kellett-avatar.png)](https://spreadable.headjam.com.au/spreadable/author/luke-kellett)[Luke Kellett](https://spreadable.headjam.com.au/spreadable/author/luke-kellett) 20 Nov 2014 · [E-commerce](https://spreadable.headjam.com.au/spreadable/tag/e-commerce)· [Social media](https://spreadable.headjam.com.au/spreadable/tag/social-media) ![headjam_seo](https://spreadable.headjam.com.au/hs-fs/hubfs/Headjam%20May2018/Images/headjam_seo.png?width=1200&name=headjam_seo.png) Social media marketing is super important these days, and changing fast. The latest data indicates Facebook has lost its cool factor with teen audiences who now Snapchat or WhatsApp screen-grabs of friend requests from their parents with the caption "Ugh!" scrawled across it. YouTube is now more of a habit than Facebook, and people mostly catch up on a bit of FB-ing while they're on the move or waiting in line for a latte. Image based social networking has really taken off, especially with the youngsters, meaning social media marketing on Pintrest and Instagram are going to the next level and we are starting to see predictions of the next big thing: [social commerce](http://www.adnews.com.au/news/opinion-social-commerce-is-coming-are-you-ready). Despite all this [Facebook](http://investor.fb.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=878726) are reporting record profits and if things are changing social media marketing spend is not, so the industry is probably lagging behind demand. Here's a list of recent social media marketing trends that tell us its only a matter of time before industry catches up: - Teens are bored of [Facebook](http://www.slideshare.net/globalwebindex/gwi-social-summary-q3-2014). - YouTube now has more monthly visitors than [Facebook](http://blog.globalwebindex.net/youtube-visitors-vs-facebook). - A third of [Facebook's](http://venturebeat.com/2014/10/28/facebook-passes-1-35b-monthly-active-users-and-864m-daily-active-users-with-a-third-now-mobile-only/) users are now mobile only. - Tumblr, Pinterest and Instagram have the fastest growing and youngest audiences. - Snapchat keeps on kicking goals, and is the fastest growing app. - 16-18 year olds now use a combination of Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and WhatsApp rather than [Facebook](http://theconversation.com/facebooks-so-uncool-but-its-morphing-into-a-different-beast-21548). 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