<p>Heck, Facebook was so boring I didnt create an account</p>
<p>D has a few male friends who no longer use FB. I wonder if this is more common with guys?</p>
<p>19 year-old S hates FB, hardly ever uses it for anything other than the chat feature. He’s never had a Twitter account and don’t think he’s planning on starting on.</p>
<p>But he does send a MINIMUM of 3000 text messages a month. How is that even possible? that’s more than 100 per day.</p>
<p>jrcsmom, thinking back to when I was using AOL Instant Messenger and had to be sitting in front of a computer to use it (and how many chat windows I could have open at a time), I can’t imagine how many texts I’d have sent if they were available at the time.</p>
<p>In the past year all three of mine 18-24 have more or less given up FB. The oldes is enamored with Instagram and the youngest just showed me this photo sharing app the “deletes” the photo after a certain amount of time.</p>
<p>My kids rarely post on FB anymore and are more about twitter and tumbler. </p>
<p>I enjoy Facebook, though.</p>
<p>IDK
Instagram
Twitter
etc are all linked.</p>
<p>College age student has thinned “friends” and almost never posts etc.</p>
<p>HS student keeps adding “friends” though I suspect it will fall off after graduation etc and real life…</p>
<p>Using settings properly…there is no reason why young and old can’t use FB side by side. It is a tool. Not an “exclusive” club.</p>
<p>I think tumblr is becoming much more popular. Most of us who’ve been there for a while are relatively dismayed by this XD</p>
<p>Oh yeah, there’s definitely a move away from Facebook among the students I teach, and as more of my older relatives join (to my students I am old, but I am not actually old), the more I have started using privacy filters or just plain old Twitter. </p>
<p>I still use FB for hosting large albums of pictures and videos, as I stay off SnapChat and Instagram–those apps haven’t really caught on with a lot of my friends, and my students are generally using those apps to share things that are NOT intended for faculty! Twitter is definitely the thing with most of my students (there are some tumblr fanatics, but they are in the minority).</p>
<p>The one other thing I use FB for is the chat application–my students are terrible with email, and some of my students are not mature enough to handle texting privileges, so that’s a very important way for me to interact with them.</p>
<p>Momofthreeboys, WARNING! WARNING!</p>
<p>Kids think that photos are deleted after x number of seconds on snapchat, but there’s nothing to stop the receiver from doing a screenshot. It’s the new sexting, and kids are getting in trouble.</p>
<p>Maybe I’m just getting old (27), but when you really look at it, all of these social networking sites are just plain goofy.</p>
<p>You’re sitting there, making a page all about yourself, so what?.. Other people can look at it and say “Whoa this guy is cool!”? I just don’t get it…</p>
<p>I understand the whole “personal expression” thing, and to some extent, I see the appeal. I just think the actual practice of continually updating a page all about yourself for others to see is just slightly weird, and completely self-absorbed. [I know, ‘duh!’, right?]</p>
<p>Maybe kids are now realizing how silly all of it is? I don’t know. I know I was in to the whole facebooking thing in college, but since then, I, as well as my friends, have all moved on… nobody really cares any more. We all have busy lives now.</p>
<p>I am getting bored with FB. It seems like more and more businesses with status updates and special sales than personal stuff…also a lot of politically charged things appearing now too. There are some " likes " of mine that I have stopped following because of the nasty tone from the posters. I think Today Show updates is a perfect example of that. It’s like they are intentionally baiting people into fighting with each other. Who needs that ?</p>
<p>My 15 year old daughter tells me it’s " out " with her age group</p>
<p>FB has been over for a while at our house, too. College sophomore almost never uses it, doesn’t have twitter. Does occasionally snap chat. Still. A pretty rabid texter. Second d has a twitter, but uses it about as often as she texts, so rarely. I think she just might not care if she knows what her friends are up to every minute, or hour, or day . . .</p>
<p>I’m noticing more and more, my FB newsfeed is full of my friends (adults) sharing pictures with sappy quotes (stuff like…<strong>Your son will hold your hand for a moment but your heart for a lifetime, Click share if you LOVE YOUR SON</strong>*). I wish there was a Hide just for those. I mean, I would HOPE that people know I love my kids even if I don’t share that sappy thing…</p>
<p>Sorry. Maybe I should have put that on the Get it Off Your Chest thread! :rolleyes:</p>
<p>I think the most positive aspect of social networking sites is the ability to stay networked with others from throughout your life. It’s going to be interesting to see if the upcoming generation actually uses that to their advantage.</p>
<p>In my parents (baby boomer) gen, once you went through a stage in life, you didn’t stay in touch with anyone but your very closest friends. When they go off to high school reunions they wonder, “what ever happened to…”. They were the generation of, “I’ll put you on my Christmas card list” and contacted ‘old friends’ once each year.</p>
<p>In my gen X generation, email came along, so it was much easier to stay in touch, but you still didn’t tend to keep in touch with any but your closest friends. But it was much easier to stay in touch with that core group and know what they were up to and what was going on in their lives because it was relatively easy to stay in touch via email.</p>
<p>But with the millenials and the availabiltiy of social networking sites you can stay in touch with so many people from so many different phases of your life so easily. Although my S is a FB hater, he is friends with a few foreign exchange students that attended his HS, friends he briefly made on a couple cruise vacations we took, friends with a group he travelled abroad with a few summers ago, as well as those he met while abroad, not to mention his HS and college friends. He litterally has an established network of people all over the country and in a few foreign countries that he knows and who know him. That could come in really handy some day when travelling, looking for job opportunities, relocating… It’s going to be interesting to see how this generation takes advantage of this as they move into the next phase of their lives.</p>
<p>Our daughters have moved away from Facebook and onto Twitter. I like facebook to keep in touch with relatives who live far away, and to rekindle high school relationships.</p>
<p>The minute facebook allowed kids to see who was looking at their page and how many times their page was looked at by each friend was the beginning of the end.</p>
<p>Susie doesn’t want Jonny to know she is checking him out… :)</p>
<p>The end of stalking in secret…</p>
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<p>That assumes that the masses want to…and I’m just not convinced it is so.</p>
<p>I am reliving my teens. I am off facebook after a few years on!</p>
<p>I think people certainly use CC as social media.</p>
<p>Sax, how do they see who checks their pages? I was under the impression fb wasn’t offering that data. Or?</p>