<p>From the FB help center under Common Facebook Myths:</p>
<p>“Can people tell that I’ve looked at their timeline?
No, Facebook doesn’t let people track who views their timeline. Third party apps also can’t provide this functionality. If you come across an app that claims to offer this ability, please report the app.”</p>
<p>I still have a facebook account and check occasionally but I never really used it that much.</p>
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<p>That one is called snapchat.</p>
<p>I forgot to mention that D’s college friends also use Twitter.</p>
<p>I used to spend a couple of hours a day actively on Facebook. I never decided it was stupid and just quit; I just have gradually gone on it less and less. Most of my friends don’t post much anymore that isn’t about social events, memes are getting boring, and there seem to be a lot more “like if you love Jesus; ignore for Satan”-esque posts floating around. The only reasons I check Facebook at all are for a few pages that still post funny stuff and to see if anyone’s trying to contact me.</p>
<p>Once the adults started taking over Facebook, it was only a matter of time.</p>
<p>I do notice a lot of my students mentioning pinterest lately. And reddit. We’ve had several class discussions involving cats on the internet.</p>
<p>My daughter just told me yesterday she only uses fb to chat, and she has a private page for her activity. She uses twitter and instagram.</p>
<p>I have some private groups where we chat, I rarely if ever post anything on fb, but I’m still amazed at how some friends still post their every thought and opinion. </p>
<p>Once parents joined it was only a matter of time.</p>
<p>Reading over this thread confirms my suspition that Facebook going public was a last desperate grab for cash. How could it possibly stay ‘cool’ when your parents, grandparents, and every business on the planet climbed on board?</p>
<p>The vast majority of kids use facebook to “stay in touch with” the kid they sit next to in math. It was bound to be a fleeting fad for that group. But its functionality and core benefits haven’t changed for many users.</p>
<p>My older son was on facebook for about a year in high school - even then he never checked it. He’s totally addicted to some chat board that is only Carnegie Mellon alumni and students. It’s basically always on as a tab when he’s on line. Kind of like CC is for me.</p>
<p>Younger son is still on - his friends use it a lot to arrange meet ups. He hardly ever posts status updates. He lets us see his albums of pictures of Jordan, but it’s conceivable that there are albums we can’t see. He’s said he thinks that what it does best. A number of his friends use pseudonyms. I don’t think he uses twitter. He once set a pretty funny tumblr about learning Arabic.</p>
<p>Yeah everyone I know uses twitter now. All I use Facebook for now is group messaging.</p>
<p>I don’t know very many people who use twitter. Everyone around here still uses FB. Maybe it’s on its way out with hs kids but I don’t know any college kids giving it up <em>shrug</em></p>
<p>FaceBook is becoming slowly obsolete, while Twitter is reaching its heyday, along with Instagram, Snapchat, and Tumblr.</p>
<p>As a high school senior, I can say that Facebook is still wildly popular with most students around where I live. I am a proud Facebook addict, and it offers several features that many social networking sites just can’t offer. It allows me to keep in touch with friends, run various campaigns (I basically ran my ASB Pres. campaign through a Facebook page), form convenient online study groups with peers, and organize group activities with others. With that said, other social networking sites – notably tumblr, pinterest, and snapchat (none of which I use) – are gaining popularity, but generally those gains have not come at the expense of Facebook.</p>
<p>Most students I know still refuse to use Twitter and are pretty much are creeped out by its entire concept. It’s definitely not popular around here.</p>
<p>Snapchat and Twitter are more popular and are taking on the role of Facebook (as Facebook did to MySpace and MySpace to AIM). Once Facebook was used by parents and people were getting in trouble for posting on it, kids stopped using. This happened even more when organizations and people started using it for an actual functional use. Unfortuant that a website can’t really have both.</p>
<p>And CC I guess is kind of addicting too. ;)</p>
<p>mathmom, is he on misc.market? If so, I probably read some of his posts while I was there (and I imagine he read some of mine). ;)</p>
<p>My kids never really got in to Facebook. I am tired of it, but still there I guess. I feel like I know too much about others now though. We had a family reunion this past summer. It has been six years. But, there was nothing to update. And the elections! I think a lot of people ended up not liking each because of too much opinions on Facebook.</p>
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<p>I actually don’t mind my family being there (I’m friends with them and the parents of some of my friends - by choice). It’s nice to know what adults are thinking about, though a lot of it’s numbingly mundane and monotonous. The pages that really annoy me, though, are the commercial/business ones, including colleges. There’s no real sense of humor whatsoever; just marketing.</p>
<p>As a student, I still see my friends, both in high school and college, online, but not posting much. People will chat, talk in groups, and other related things, but not just post random things about what’s happening in their lives (which was boring to begin with). I think it’s a great tool for talking to people, organizing events, etc. and it will probably continue to be used that way.</p>
<p>Its pretty accurate that rockstars use twitter.
I follow a couple locals, one just posted whats backstage @ the music festival.
Waffle cones, syrups, ice creams & lots of sprinkles.
Rofl.</p>
<p>I’m a grad student in my mid-twenties. I have a Facebook and a tumblr. Never had much interest in Pinterest, Instagram, or Twitter. For most of my friends, instagram seems to auto post to FB anyway. IMO, the most useful part of FB is the messenger function, although I enjoy pagesurfing to see what people are up to these days. I agree that the memes and Like If graphics are very stale. Most of my friends still use FB at least semi-regularly. I use tumblr to post a bunch of fandom stuff that few of my friends IRL care about. I think a major difference between FB and twitter, Pinterest,and tumblr is that FB requires you to know people and for them to be active while other social media sites are much more about common interests than RL relationships</p>