Posted on 12/29/2013 6:20:53 AM PST by canuck_conservative
“Leave those portals to the progressives to instruct the young!”
It never ceases to amaze me how people on our side willingly leave these places to liberal domination and then expect to somehow win against them.
Dont worry, we have AM radio. Twitter and Facebook are soooooo useless!
It must be the same loons that are proud of still using Windows XP and save everything on floppy disks.
“The dorks of today give us Facebook, Twitter, and other useless junk.”
Oddly enough there are plenty of people (like the left) that use it pretty well to kick our rears, coordinate, and spread their messages.
It’s a communication medium, no different than a webpage (like this one) which people in the 90s equally thought were useless junk.
I tried Twitter. I attracted a “follower” even though I had never posted a tweet. I also don’t care to be a “follower”. Sounds like being a sheep. The one thing it was handy for was finding out when the local high school football game was over and final score. Also, you might get early results of a marching band competition. I might participate again next fall for that. Otherwise, I don’t see the charm. I’ve already demonstrated that I’m too verbose to keep it down to a 140 character limit!
About 10 years ago, my kids asked me not to go on Facebook. “Dad, there comes a time when every parent asks to friend his kid to see what’s going on, and we don’t want to have to say ‘No’ to you.” I thought it was hilarious at the time.
As Facebook developed into the eternal log of all submitted personal information and activities, I became even more glad of the decision. My kids, who are pretty sensible, recognize this as well, and use it minimally now.
Never made it to the Facebook party. Just, darn.
When a company takes themselves public and has an IPO, it’s because they see it dying and want to cash out before too long.
When my daughter was in high school almost 10 years ago, I friended her on Facebook using an alias so I could find out what she was up to.
My (adult) children (who I’d bet are very typical) pretty much never see a printed newspaper or a television news broadcast.
All their info comes from the internet, and most of that via smartphones and tablets.
I have a friend with two teenaged girls. He said the other day, “Facebook, twitter? Forget it. Kids are getting so lazy that even that takes too much effort!”
Devious.
Well, I had boys, so I was less worried.
Once I googled one of them and a party pic showed up. I laughed and mentioned it, to which I got a “Thanks, I’ll update my security settings.”
The “good old days” of computing were when you had to be knowledgeable and intelligent in computing to be a member. Now, every ignorant and dull person on the planet uses them. That’s why software companies can produce crap, and stay in business.
When Facebook started taking off in 2007-8 my wife described it as “My Space” for grown ups. Very few kids were using it then. Kinda glad they are dropping it so we old people can get back to posting 20-year-old profile photos and impressing long-lost high school classmates with our cars, vacations and the exploits of our children.
wife who blogs about such said same .....4 or 5 years ago.
(maybe it couldn’t be proven until recently)
Teens are moving elsewhere in droves and they aren't telling us where either. Can't say that I blame them.
Facebook's multibillion dollar valuation based on the nebulous concept of selling "hot" merchandise to kids via their cell phones was nonsense, to begin with.
It's, like, all stuck to the 8 track tape player 'n junk. 'N stuff.
Guaranteed if parents like something, teens are required to hate it.
"Never invest in a company whose platform can be replaced by something that a bunch of people come up with over a single weekend."
You forgot to add recent weight loss to the list of accomplishments.
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