With the continuing advent of social media networking and popular social media apps, Facebook is seeing a significant decline in popularity. New apps such as Instagram, Pinterest, Vine, Twitter and others, are rivaling Facebook in the social media market, as Facebook now finds itself dropping in popularity and losing users due to the increase in competition.

1991: AMERICA ONLINE (AOL): 30 Million users at peak 1994: WARCRAFT: 9.6 Million users currently 1995: CLASSMATES.COM: 50 Million users at peak 1997: SIX DEGREES: 3.5 Million users at peak 2000: PANDORA: 200 Million users currently, HABBO: 240 Million users currently 2001: STUMBLEUPON: 25 Million users currently 2002: FRIENDSTER: 115 Million users currently, LAST.FM: 40 Million users currently 2003: LINKEDIN: 115 Million users currently, MYSPACE: 115 Million users currently 2004: FACEBOOK: 1.11 Billion users currently 2005: REDDIT & YOUTUBE 2006: TWITTER: 550 Million users currently 2007: TUMBLR & SONGKICK 2009: FOURSQUARE & CHARTROULETTE 2010: INSTAGRAM: 150 Million users currently 2011: GOOGLE: 300 Million users currently 2012: PINTEREST: 70 Million users currently 2013: VINE & SNAPCHAT

With the advent of the latest mainstream app, Vine, short videos can go viral as fast as ever, giving the chance for anyone to get their “15 minutes of fame.”

Twitter has become a breaking news source to users as news channels like CNN, CNBC, USA Today, and ABC News all have Twitter accounts to update people with the latest news stories.

Snapchat, an app that allows users to send pictures, videos, and add text and drawings, is considered one of the most popular and widely used apps in today’s social market.

The LDS Church has embraced social media and is using different avenues to reach out to both members and investigators. Church leaders encourage members to use social media as a way to share the gospel. President Dieter F. Uchtdorf said, “Perhaps the Lord’s encouragement to ‘open [your] mouths’ might today include ‘use your hands’ to blog and text message the gospel to all the world!”

Full-time LDS missionaries’ traditional way of knocking on doors to preach the gospel has evolved to include the use of Facebook and other social media in the mission field, reports LDS Church news.

After a long baseball season without a razor in sight, the Boston Red Sox conquered the St. Louis Cardinals in Game six of the World Series on Oct. 30, to win its third title in the past 10 years. The team decided to stop shaving after the Boston Marathon Massacre, which was at the beginning of the season, to help unify its players. The beards grew long and bushy until the very end, when they won the Fall Classic.

Research has shown that more aggressive people are more prone to be more aggressive after playing violent video games. However, researchers have also found even some exposure changes people's behavior.