Facebook ‘basically dead and buried’ among teens, as their parents increasingly embrace it: study

National Post [Canada] / The Telegraph ^ | December 27, 2013 | Matthew Sparkes

[Tax-chick]

the European Union-funded research

Meh.

[FrdmLvr]

Ikr. My own son blocked me.

[Sirius Lee]

FB is soooo 2008. It’s, like, all old people and, like, “Where’s my marmalade?”

[cripplecreek]

They’ll have the same problem with twitter which already has a sizable adult population. I prefer twitter because it doesn’t come with all the crap of Facebook. Plus twitter has a sizable conservative community.

[AppyPappy]

My kids friended me. I don’t have a smart phone so I don’t do Snapchat or Instagram. I do twitter just to follow Michelle Malkin, David Burge, Drudge and The North Korean news agency

Eagles perch at statue of Kim Il-Sung, on anniversary of Great Leader’s “Commentaries on Application of Juche to Thermodynamics”.

[ottbmare]

Zuckerberg doesn’t care. We have more money and data mining us is more interesting and lucrative.

[SunkenCiv]

> ... is being replaced by simpler social networks such as Twitter and Snapchat... Prof Daniel Miller of University College London, an anthropologist who worked on the European Union-funded research, wrote in an article for the academic news website The Conversation.

The simpler sites work better by comparison on the limited mobile phone interfaces, and fit the short attention span lifestyle of the young. Thanks canuck_conservative.

[fwdude]

The new My Space?

[kearnyirish2]

“Facebook ‘basically dead and buried’ among teens, as their parents increasingly embrace it: study”

This is no surprise; a growing number of products (movies, video games, TV shows) are focused on the increasing number of adult Americans that have discretionary income and often have no children. Some video game releases are earning similar returns as movie releases, and it isn’t because kids are buying them. Marketing to kids worked when 1) people had kids, and 2) the kids had discretionary income. Heck, didn’t FaceBook have an app that would block images of people’s children?

When Spanish news networks have higher ratings than “American” ones, it is simply highlighting this demographic trend.

[CaptainK]

I also prefer twitter for all the reasons you mentioned. Facebook is akin to getting that dreaded four page Christmas letter from a relative every day of the week.

[cripplecreek]

I think conservatives are far more effective at getting a message across within the limits of twitter space.

[oh8eleven]

Facebook ... Twitter
Never have, never will.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Ditto.

[nascarnation]

Leave those portals to the progressives to instruct the young!

[mosaicwolf]

"Facebook ... Twitter Never have, never will."

I agree. Maybe the facebook fools are figuring out that "Big Brother" is watching you.

[Lazamataz]

FB is soooo 2008. It’s, like, all old people and, like, “Where’s my marmalade?”

So where is it.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Facebook is akin to getting that dreaded four page Christmas letter from a relative every day of the week.

Sooooo true.

OTOH, Facebook put the four-page-Christmas-letter people out of business. Howie Carr used to read them on WRKO, every Christmas. It was one of the best shows of the year. This year he only received one entry.

Curse you, Facebook!

[socal_parrot]

Agree. I follow a couple thousand mostly conservative people on Twitter. It pretty much reads like a newsfeed, with very few “my life is better than yours” or food and pet pics. Dana Perino does post pictures of her dog though.

[Da Coyote]

The geniuses of earlier generations gave us transistors, communications theory, computers, space travel, quantum physics, etc.

The dorks of today give us Facebook, Twitter, and other useless junk.

If Zukerdork was the answer, the question wasn’t worth the bandwidth.