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

Alejandro Tortolini alemtor at gmail.com
Mon Dec 30 07:23:45 PST 2013


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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