<p>@DeskPotato: I’m a prime example. I have ~780 friends and rarely if ever see most of them. I prefer it this way, though; I’m not seeing posts from the same 30-50 people (my main groups of friends) all the time.</p>
<p>Tumblr and texting and email is my shiz- I deactivated my facebook account months ago because of the lack of privacy.</p>
<p>I haven’t read this whole thread, but my 19 year old daughter told me that “old people have ruined Facebook.” And by old she means me and my ilk. :)</p>
<p>^^</p>
<p>Hey, don’t look at me me! I don’t have a FB account so I haven’t ruined it for the younger folks.</p>
<p>I gave FB 2 years ago. I need to to make it any easier for the gov to intrude on my privacy. Frankly I am happy more people are starting to tire of FB. It’s really disgusting how eager people are to share copious amount of info to people they’ve never met.</p>
<p>My D has a very good friend and naturally they became facebook friends. Then every 10 min. the girl posted something about how much she loved her boyfriend and tagged her bf. then the bf would have to say something about how she was cute. and so on and so forth. D. complained and unfriended her. After several months that girl invited D. to be her fb friend. D. forgot why they were not fb friends so she accepted her invitation. After 10 min. she unfriended her again for the same reason. :D</p>
<p>^ Sounds extreme when you can easily block notifications. I get bored with FB, but at the same time when your family iives all over the country it’s an awesome postcard.</p>
<p>@csmathstudent: Why is it disgusting? Isn’t it just a way of being friendly and meeting new people? Also, they usually aren’t actively sharing tons of info with people (correct me if your experience is different), only having it there to be seen; that’s not so different from real life.</p>
<p>I like fb to communicate with my kids. They are active users, and it looks like most of their friends are too. In fact, they have noted when so-and-so doesn’t have a facebook so that must be unusual in their worlds.
I like twitter but just for keeping up on news and such. I do use instagram but not for social networking. Some coworkers convinced me to join Pinterest but I couldn’t get into it. My highschooler loves tumblr. I don’t have one of my own but some of them are quite amusing.</p>
<p>This thread should be moved to a different place…</p>
<p>While it’s fun to see some comments. </p>
<p>I like to look at pictures on facebook. D. doesn’t use facebook, except for times like today - she forgot to write down the problem numbers in one of her classes. texted several friends, didn’t get reply. went to fb, tagged a bunch of classmates, got instant information.</p>
<p>I think that facebook kind of takes the meaning out of internet, once your daily "
check" is over</p>
<p>Very tired of facebook. I have about 500 friends and there are hardly ever new posts! </p>
<p>Twitter and Instagram are more lively these days.</p>
<p>Yes, I find that girls in particular use Instagram - girls of all ages. Not sure the boys like it as much. I do think that my daughter does like the group discussion function of private FB groups after she gets into a college or a new show she is cast in. Great for that function.</p>
<p>I’m my high school class secretary, so I can’t defriend my classmates, but one got demoted to “Aquaintance” after she posted something I thought was truly offensive. I never see her stuff any more.</p>
<p>^I’m so the opposite, haha. I can’t go a couple of days without seeing some joke or funny picture about 9/11, James Holmes, the Holocaust, etc., and they’re usually from my best friends or favorite pages.</p>
<p>Also, I don’t think you have to set the person to “Acquaintance” for her posts not to show up on your News Feed; you can just change it manually, without some other side effects.</p>
<p>I still enjoy Facebook, but it has become more a personalized newsfeed and less a connection between friends lately. My friends and I post personal updates less and less. I have “liked” news sites, interest groups and blogs through the years, and those sites post links regularly. Thus, I have less personal interaction and more news, opinions and slideshows of retro livingroom design on my wall.</p>
<p>I knew Facebook had peaked and was a downward trajectory when:</p>
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<li><p>My kids’ grandmother started commenting on their updates. They didn’t mind her seeing anything or reading anything, but by commenting she was sort of breaking unwritten rules. It was too much work to make adjustments to which “friends” could see which posts. They moved on to Twitter.</p></li>
<li><p>Facebook continued to shift its rules on privacy. The parameters seem to shift frequently enough and to an extent that I’m never quite sure what the rules are, and I’m tired of having to check and reset. While Zuckerberg wants the default to be openness, I don’t know anyone of any age who wants anything but full privacy to be the default setting. People leave the site out of frustration.</p></li>
<li><p>The first stories hit the news about employers using facebook as a pre-employment tool. Older teens and young adults cleaned up their albums and tags, and stopped posting.</p></li>
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<p>Teens, college students and young adults who I know are almost completely off Facebook. They have accounts, but use them only for private messaging, group announcements and group planning.</p>
<p>I hardly use facebook anymore besides the casual “check” in the morning.</p>
<p>I don’t see how anyone under 18 would have any use for facebook. It’s for college students and graduates, which, after all, are the ones that can pay for things. So I think facebook will benefit from this change. </p>
<p>I also don’t see how facebook would be interesting to anyone over 50, either because they can’t use the internet, have privacy concerns (not being used to the technology era) or simply don’t have enough friends on facebook that make it useful (people in their 20s and 30s use it for what it’s FOR, keeping in touch with their friends, creating parties, etc.). People over 50 that I’m friends with of facebook update statuses with things other people don’t care about, like, “having more wine today” or “my daughter for home from college!” boring. In short, I believe facebook will continue to thrive within people in their 20s and 30s presently and in the future, as those people grow and keep facebook as an integral part of their relationships with their friends. </p>
<p>Wow. I am SO bored at work right now.</p>
<p>I was never really ‘into’ facebook; I saw it as a way to occasionally chat with friends and/or to catch up.</p>
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<p>Really? Is there actually anyone in their 50’s who doesn’t use the Internet? You make us sound like dinosaurs!</p>