Teens tiring of Facebook

Parents Forum
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<p>I crack up when my kids say things about the Internet like their generation invented it. I was on the Internet before they were born, before the World Wide Web existed and when you connected over a phone line with an 800 baud modem. But, we don’t know how to use the Internet? </p>

<p>What is boring to you in your 20s and 30s is not boring to the people posting it or their peers. A lot of what younger folks post is boring to us too. If you don’t want to be “friends” with older folks, then don’t be. It’s pretty easy.</p>

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<p>I barely ever get on FB these days. </p>

<p>Twitter and Instagram are the new popular social networks, and i’ve also been hearing a lot about this thing called Pheed. I’m not on it but some of my friends have it!</p>

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<p>LOL. People now over 50 CREATED the internet.</p>

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<p>Saying I’m bored of facebook would be an understatement xD</p>

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<p>I beg your pardon!</p>

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<p>Hahaha it’s funny how teenagers often assume adults are incapable of accessing the Internet just because it was not as prominent when they were young; the Internet is a VERY easy thing to learn to navigate</p>

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<p>My kids, ages 16 to 20, still have pages, but tired of it some time ago. Rarely, if ever, post, seldom even look at it. It was big for them sort of freshman (we didn’t let them on until freshman year in HS–they thought we were ogres then, but thank us now) and sophomore year, lost its appeal after that.</p>

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<p>Twitter for the high schoolers and Instagram for the jr. high kids around here…</p>

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<p>CC>Facebook</p>

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<p>I’m in my 50’s and it seems popular for my age group, but I never set up a page myself!</p>

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<p>“Trendy” websites like Facebook come and go. Remember myspace??? The novelty wears off and people move on to the next big thing.</p>

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<p>Very true! ^</p>

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<p>I’m personally bored with it but my page was never really that active in the first place. I mostly use it to keep up with school events and some older relatives.</p>

<p>I’ve heard about twitter but I’m not interested in using it.</p>

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<p>Facebook is still “in” at my high school (though I don’t have one).</p>

<p>I don’t see the point of Twitter, lol.</p>

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<p>Venting here. Facebook now charges $5 to message someone in their inbox unless they are already your friend. Or FB will send the pm to a person’s “other” folder BUT they will not notify the recipient that they have a message. </p>

<p>Can you imagine spending $5 dollars to message someone. I’d snail mail them a letter first for 46 cents. </p>

<p>I just checked my “other” box and had a message there from someone from June 2012. Had no idea it was there. </p>

<p>Nice job FB, not.</p>

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<p>No it doesn’t…</p>

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<p>I’m actually quite glad. I don’t want to be getting messages from people that aren’t my friend. If you want to message me, friend me. Leaving it open makes it way to easy to get spam messages from companies.</p>

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<p>Guys, I repeat, IT DOESN’T CHARGE YOU, lol I just sent a message to a non-friend to prove it</p>

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<p>I’m not seeing the need to message someone who isn’t a friended in the first place. That sounds remarkably creepy. And the $5 fee sounds too nonprofitable to be believable at all.</p>

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<p>Exactly ^ its pointless</p>