Teens are moving elsewhere in droves and they aren't telling us where either. Can't say that I blame them.
Meh.
Ikr. My own son blocked me.
FB is soooo 2008. It’s, like, all old people and, like, “Where’s my marmalade?”
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.
Zuckerberg doesn’t care. We have more money and data mining us is more interesting and lucrative.
The new My Space?
“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.
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.
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!
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.
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!”
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.
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."