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

[William Dutton]

In the UK, social media adoption has reached somewhat of a plateau at about 60% of Internet users in 2013. Not a decline, but the examples we use are Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter. My guess is that use of FB is growing among middle aged and older users, while younger users are shifting to some degree to newer social media, such as Pinterest, Tumblr, and WhatsApp. For figures on this trend, see: http://www.slideshare.net/WHDutton/cultures-socitm2013 

On 30 Dec 2013, at 15:23, Alejandro Tortolini <alemtor at gmail.com> wrote:

> IMHO, teens are being very selective when they interact in Facebook: they
> use the chat and share photos; but when they need to talk things outside
> the "older people" radar, they choose tools like Ask, forums, things that
> parents usually don´t know. And this makes these sites specially good for
> bad practices like cyberbulling, unfortunately...
> Best,
> 
> Alejandro Tortolini.
> 
> 
> 2013/12/30 Shulman, Stu <stu at texifter.com>
> 
>> 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
>>> 
>>> --
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>>> Journalism & Communications, University of Bedfordshire
>>> http://www.beds.ac.uk/departments/jc
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