Impending end of Facebook use among teens debunked
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
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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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
-- Dr David Brake, FHEA (@drbrake http://davidbrake.org/) Senior Lecturer, Journalism & Communications, University of Bedfordshire http://www.beds.ac.uk/departments/jc _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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Founder and CEO, Texifterhttp://texifter.com
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-- Alejandro Tortolini http://dooid.me/aletor
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@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@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
-- Dr David Brake, FHEA (@drbrake http://davidbrake.org/) Senior Lecturer, Journalism & Communications, University of Bedfordshire http://www.beds.ac.uk/departments/jc _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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William H. Dutton Professor of Internet Studies Professorial Fellow, Balliol College CITI Fellow, Columbia University Oxford Martin Fellow Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford 1 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3JS UNITED KINGDOM Tel +44 (0)1865 287 210 Fax +44 (0)1865 287 211 Cell +44 (0)7768 823906 Web: http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/dutton/about/ You can access my papers on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) at: http://ssrn.com/author=478025 Latest Books: The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies (2013): http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199589074.do Politics and the Internet (2014): http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415561501/
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