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@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@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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