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Teens leaving Facebook?

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Mr.Bishop
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Just read this article -

http://venturebeat.com/2014/01/16/teens-abandoning-facebook-yet-the-world-survives/

I'm curious to hear from the under 25 crowd around here... do you see evidence of this in your world? Do you not give a shit about facebook and actually not check it that much?

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oil.
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surveys in threads?! what is this black magic?!!!?
11 years ago
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Ski_Alot
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As a high schooler, everyone always says that they want to delete their facebook and the hate it, but i only know of 3 or 4 kids who have actually gone through with it. It kinda reminds me of cigarettes, everyone knows that they should quit, but its a big part of your life, so its so hard to quit.
11 years ago
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UncleGerry
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I know you're asking for the under 25 crowd, but I'm 26 and just recently got off the book. It was fun in the beginning stages, but then it just got wayyyy too commercialized/populated and with that, dropped it's privacy borders.

Once the parents and old people started hopping on, I was super weary of it. But then you could see how Facebook started to slowly but surely take away any sort of privacy you could have and the ads started to invade, so it was time to go.

Do I miss it? Fuck no.
11 years ago
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UncleGerry
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Not to mention that its completely numbing the younger generations to any sort of personal interaction, which is the most terrifying aspect of it all, in my opinion. Kids communicate through "likes."
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Mr.Bishop
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I loved this photo titled "Phones are killing social interaction in public"

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11 years ago
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Stainr
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.its all about instagram over here now, teens are getting smarter.. no one really bitches/ complains about there life on intargram.
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UncleGerry
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That does put some perspective into it....I dunno, it's a pretty complicated topic that I'm not sure how I feel about.

A good example that I like to use is how when you were younger, and you liked a girl in class, you'd give her a call and talk to her on the phone for hours or go out for ice cream after school or some shit. Nowadays, kids will just communicate via Facebook/Instagram comments..."TBH I think you're cute" "LOL thanks for the like" "Follow me back?" "Notice/recognize me??" Meanwhile, these kids don't even speak to each other in the halls the next day because they are so numb to actually speaking on a personal level and they have that awkward connection via social media.

It kinda fuckin scares me. Not to mention that it just emphasizes the whole "look at me" idea and further causes insecurities among younger people because everyone wants to be the pretty girl/handsome guy with the most "likes." The girl with the instagram account that has bikini pics is the one with 500k followers, most of which are shady social media lurkers or people who jump at the chance to hate on whoever they can. The whole internet hate situation is another reason why I think social media isn't good for people, but that's a whole other discussion.

I saw a pretty good Tyler Durden-type quote somewhere once:
"You are not how many likes you get."
Thought that was pretty good.
11 years ago
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.Rybak.
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The only thing I use Facebook for is contests and to message Fagnus and others every once in a while. Idk I guess I've just grown away from it. Most people in my town use twitter now though which isn't any better really. Also as soon as I started to come on here a lot I started to not go on Facebook as much.
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theBearJew
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Right now I'm unemployed. I will probably delete mine when I get a job and have something to do with my time. Now I just check it every so often, comment on some funny posts, watch a few videos. But I really don't do much with it in terms of posting my own content.
11 years ago
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seward
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"twitters killing facebook"....
"parents joining facebook is killing facebook"....
"facebook being publicly traded is killing facebook"....
"teens leaving facebook is killing facebook"....

... facebook is still here.
and the people that talk about deleting it are the people that use it the most.
11 years ago
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WPoch
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I know someone who deleted their account, only to reactivate it the next day.
11 years ago
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El_Barto.
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I aint got no facebook bitches
11 years ago
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Ski_Alot
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k poch
11 years ago
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Mr.Bishop
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The vocal minority as we like to call them. Very common in social networks. The market data in the original article was a bit interesting, and often its a slow exodus before the big rush.

I lived through that happening on MySpace, so it definitely can happen. MySpace went from being the absolute sickest shit in the universe where everyone was on it to dead as a fucking doornail in about a year. It was totally wild, and gives some wild perspective.

11 years ago
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t_rob
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I wasn't posted anything on my own wall in months and probably have left less than ten posts on other things in the last six months. Yeah, I'm using Facebook the least amount since I joined in 05/06.

I see the data points, they make sense but the first sentence of the link you shared annoys me. I honestly don't think some "social marketers" even know how to understand and use that data. Websites have always came and gone. Remember Myspace? Why are some people surprised Facebook is losing the most coveted demographic? Get with the times has always been the answer to online marketing when you're trying to attract teens. I wouldn't say Facebook is dead but I don't think it is or ever was the savior.
11 years ago
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joshua
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I read an article in my university's campus news publication where the author compared quitting Facebook to quitting cigarettes and alcoholism, even saying that quitting Facebook was a bigger feat. People who take a stance like that are clearly blowing things out proportion. If you don't want to use Facebook b/c you feel it consumes too much of your time, cool, don't use it. But don't compare it to more "real" addictions, that is just absurd IMO.

I like that picture of everyone reading the paper on the train. Every generation says that the next generation is hopelessly deficient in one way or another, but sometimes it's just a change from one thing to another. Although I see that it can breed a bit of negative social atmosphere, especially with younger kids.
11 years ago
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CaptainObvious.
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I've come to despise facebook. Everyone sees it as an opportunity to get on a soapbox and venomously spit their opinions at all their "friends." Then it evolves into stupid ass arguments about religion, politics, abortion, pulling out, god knows what else.

I got rid of mine because it was making me fucking hate my so-called friends because everyone wants attention, thinks they're van Gogh, or an aspiring politician.
11 years ago
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please
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The difference between facebook and myspace is that facebook has 1.1 billion users where myspace had around 75 million at its peak. Facebook is worldwide, 1/7 people on the whole planet have facebook accounts and only roughly 4 billion have access to the internet that is insane market penetration. Facebook is also ingrained in our lives it is how we record memories, store pictures and log on to websites(including newschoolers).

That said teens definitely don't use facebook as much as they used to(including myself) but that is not necessarily a bad thing, jumping to services like instagram-which facebook owns-and then jumping to something else is what teens do they are fickle.

I think the middle aged folks and the grandparents who have gotten on facebook have figured out how to use it and they use it even more than teens do. It is a much better tool for keeping track of people that have spread out, which is what happens with adults than say twitter. Teens however are usually restricted to a specific geographic area(a high school or a college) where that is unnecessary.

facebook is not going to go away very soon
11 years ago
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Byron_tha_gr8
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I use it a lot less, in fact ive taken almost all my pictures off and have them on other shit. I feel like a lot of my friends who used to post 3-5 statuses a day do it more like once a month. That being said, i still used it to message people whose phone numbers I don't have, and my phone has numbers it automatically ads from facebook. Some of my closest friends and I have never actually given each other phone numbers since facebook already did it. I think facebook is still a pretty big part of lives, as stupid as that sounds, but i think its being used a lot differently. Twitter took over the attention status whores, instagram the sorwhoreity girls and swag fags, tumblr the hipsters and horny girls with daddy issues, but facebook still connects them all and helps them get laid. Which is what it was always for.
11 years ago
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EternalJens
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I can honestly say that the only reason I use Facebook is for the chat. Really nice to be able to easily get ahold of anyone at anytime. The news feed however is just clogged with shitty videos and the only people who post statuses are people who don't know better than to blog about whatever they do even though nobody cares. I certainly think Facebook has lost a lot of it's appeal, and a lot of people just have it, because that's the norm.
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JStrathern
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I tend to use it much less than I used to. If I want to hear about what people are doing I'll use Twitter, and if I want to see what people are doing I'll use Instagram. Facebook is no longer that useful for me other than chat, which I also rarely use because of texting.
11 years ago
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DrunkRandy
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I only use facebook really to communicate with people. Groups are convinient for school and organizing things and the same goes for the chat and being able to connect with family, friends etc without having to text or call.
11 years ago
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.AR6rider.
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I'm 25, so I'm right at the edge of your survey sample. I have never been much of a big Facebook user. I like that it makes it easy to plan events, see pictures of your friends who live far away, and send quick messages to people who you may not be able to contact by phone at the moment. I think I have posted like 4-5 "status updates" since Facebook came out with that feature. I'll occasionally post something funny on someone else's wall, but other than that, I'm pretty much a lurker. The people who talk about how much they hate Facebook are using it "wrong," if that's even possible. Just because you met your friend's brother's ex-girlfriend's cat's previous owner at a party doesn't mean you have to add them as a friend. I realize that this mostly applies to people who have already graduated high school and college, but if you use Facebook as a means to keep in touch with old friends instead of just adding every person possible, it's much more tolerable. If someone constantly posts obnoxious bs, just delete them. It's not hard. If you're not good enough friends with them in "real life" to say something, they're not really your friend and probably won't even notice that you removed them. I don't even really know what I'm babbling on about anymore, but whatever. Facebook is a pretty cool tool if you don't get sucked into the drama and bullshit of people you don't actually care about.
11 years ago
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Brian_Peppers
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Pretty much nobody but the extremely weird/creepy people in my school still uses facebook. I was really surprised when I started hanging out with kids from other schools and they were still avid users of facebook
11 years ago
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Brian_Peppers
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Im a senior in highschool by the way
11 years ago
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cope+
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I would like to go without facebook but i'm in certian groups where facebook is the main form of information on events and such...
11 years ago
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seward
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bingo.

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and that charts from 2009...
what do you think facebook has 5 years later??

facebook is huge, so huge that i dont think alot of people can completely comprehend how big.
and i think we are at time where social media has kind of been perfected.
im convinced that myspace only had that many users because it was the only sort of thing that existed at the time.
if facebook was out at the same time, you sure as shit wouldnt have had a myspace account.
and hence when facebook came out, myspace had such a rapid downfall.
i dont think that will happen with facebook. theyre too big and too good at constantly updating and staying fresh with the latest and greatest.
11 years ago
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ABalls
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I deleted mine but re activated it because my family is on it. I'll pretty much only check it after family events for the pictures.
11 years ago
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WPoch
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His name is Flanigan. He lives in the Home of the Flanigans.
11 years ago
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Stadtski
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PETE!
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7-11_Slurpee
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I'm 19 almost 20 and I still check it a few times per day. If you do just about anything online its super nice to be able to "login with Facebook." So even if I wasn't an avid checker, I'd still keep it. It's also really nice to contact people you don't have the number of and just general keeping in touch with people. A lot of of my friends have moved across the country, and I get to see some of what they're doing. If not for Facebook, I probably would never have planned trips to go see them just because you can only text/call someone so much before you just lose touch. But with Facebook it's kind of a constant reminder that they still exist. In high school I friended everything that moved. Now that i'm in college, I have more "real" friends than I have ever had before. I have cleared out hundreds of the people I will never talk to again or never have talked to. This keeps my feed cleared out and relevant which is nice and keeps it a bit more intimate. So all in all, it really can be a good tool for any age.
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FuckAllOfYou
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Yep, except this is city/statewide for me (rochester mn). Only the creepy/weird/scrubs use it, and parents. Sadly i get a lot of skiing and biking info from facebook, so i can't readily abandon it, but i would if I could. I haven't made a status in years.

I use twitter and instagram mostly, plusNS and Reddit. Facebook sucks.
11 years ago
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chicken
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chicken
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content creators should really check out this video ^
11 years ago
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DIPED_IN_SAUCE
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I have friends that don't have smartphones so we use facebook to groupchat so we can give each other shit 24/7. I don't post pictures often and only have about 100 friends so it doesn't get annoying.
11 years ago
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stickski
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Traffic is definitely declining, but no one's really getting rid of their accounts altogether.
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Heart
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That video really made me dislike facebook. inb4 it dies in the next five years.
11 years ago
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dela
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Been Facebook clean for a little over 8 months.  So glad I made the choice to better myself.
11 years ago
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homestar
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I check it a lot. I only post stuff every few months though. I definitely prefer Instagram and the other alternatives.
11 years ago
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Peachbutt
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I'll go on to IM with friends sometimes, but other than that most of the teenagers here use twitter
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LiquorLanch
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I mostly use it to keep up with snowboarding and other things i like as a lot of edits get posted to fecesbook. It also helps keeping in contact, but most of my social networking is done via twitter and IG as my friends and I interact that way, when not hanging out which is a lot (at least at Uni)
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Wallisch_pl
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MNS
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why are you spamming morgan freeman?


11 years ago
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McFellon
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I use Facebook to
1. Make plans. The groups function is really helpful for making plans with a bunch of people.
2. Share my videos. Whenever I drop a new edit I post it on Facebook, which is just about the only time I make status
3. Keep up with what's going on in the ski world. Most of my news feed is ski industry related.
4. Send messages. I prefer Facebook messaging to texting.

For what I use it for, it's great.
11 years ago
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Turkelton
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because Instagram is owned by Fuckerberg
11 years ago
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Cambrewski
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Im 17 and I deleted my facebook over a year and haven't regretted it one bit
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zwiefel12
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Im 25, When I was in College I was on it all the time chatting with friends posting pitures of events/parties. But now that im out of school and in the workforce I just check it about once a day. Just to stay in touch with people a little easier. But im Def not on it nearly as much as I used to be. I prob wont delete it.

11 years ago
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dvx100
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i never checked mine, recently ive looked at it a lot more just because i joined my Facebook group for college to meet people.
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Willgum
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Facebook used to be huge in my school, with everyone posting pics constantly and making statuses and lots of drama going on. Now the only people who update stuff anymore are the burnouts and weirdos. Everyone seems to have moved on to twitter
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