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It's a familiar cycle: early adopters flock to a new band (The Strokes), technology (Palm Pilots), or fashion (trucker hats), and as soon as it becomes mainstream they bail. A recent New York Times piece raises worries that this is happening to Facebook, with users quitting because they've become obsessed, or feel their social lives have become degraded and cheapened. On the other side, as we covered last week, business analysts fret that Twitter is likewise about to hit a wall, since teens are famously less interested than older users in the medium.