[Air-L] Impending end of Facebook use among teens debunked

[Shulman, Stu]

Anecdote: I was driving an 11-year old friend of my son to soccer and he
told me that all the kids in his school get on Google+ right after school.
I asked my son later and he concurred. The 6th graders like it in part
because Facebook "is for old people" but also because they are 12-18 months
away from a legal Facebook account. It would be interesting to see if this
adoption of G+ and use of Gmail/YouTube is related to future (dis)adoption
of Facebook by youngsters.


On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 8:45 AM, David Brake <davidbrake at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I don't know whether you have seen the stories going around about Facebook
> being "dead" to teens? It's based on an exaggerated misreading of Daniel
> Miller's ethnographic research - if you want to follow it up or
> people/students ask about it I have written a piece in The Conversation
> http://buff.ly/JECYuf giving some background information and statistics
> to put the story into perspective. TL;DR version - Facebook use might
> decline somewhat in the coming months and years but given the amount it's
> being used by teens it has a long way to fall before it's anything close to
> dead.
>
> If you've got better stats than the Pew and OxIS data I was able to
> source, let me know and I will try to add them in.
>
> Regards,
>
> David
>
> --
> Dr David Brake, FHEA (@drbrake http://davidbrake.org/) Senior Lecturer,
> Journalism & Communications, University of Bedfordshire
> http://www.beds.ac.uk/departments/jc
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