NEW YORK: Facebook is like an infectious disease, experiencing a spike before its decline, according to United States (US) researchers who claim the social network will lose 80 percent of users by 2017.

Two doctoral candidates in mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton University made their astonishing claims in a paper published online at a scientific research archive, but not yet peer-reviewed.

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