Over-50s Invade the Social Networking Scene

An anonymous reader writes "The Telegraph newspaper reports that over-50s are invading sites like Facebook and MySpace in massive numbers. A recent study showed that nearly one third of Facebook users are aged between 35 and 54, and that this group also made up 41 percent of MySpace users. "Because the mind of an over-50 is likely superior to that of a drink-addled undergrad, at first there was uncertainty about whether older users would find the Facebook-led social-networking phenomena attractive." Looks like dad just turned up to the party."

Comments

Re:I wish the Baby Boomers would just die

[Antiocheian]

And again, you limit yourself to what happened in your youth failing to understand that your useful lives were not limited in your twenties; but the problem is that you refuse to see how sick we are of listening to your pompous pontification and your refusal to see yourselves in the mirror.

My grandad was a much more interesting guy that you will ever be because he accepted his old age and he was a respected old man and also because his stories about the 2nd World War were always much more interesting to the endless "We stopped the Vietnam War, gave women and minorities the same rights as everyone else [and outsourced the economy so that you will never have the opportunity to live in the economic stability we enjoyed from our fathers]"

Asshole.

Re:I wish the Baby Boomers would just die

[CoonAss56]

I've NEVER voted for a Republican in my life, so you can't blame the Bushies or Reagans on me. When the Iran-Contra scandal came out that we were trading arms to terrorists in lieu of hostages I knew right then that the right-wingers had taken the Constitution and wiped their ass with it. It has been downhill since then.

Since your rant left out what has your generation done and only criticized mine, I'll give you another shot
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Could it be the Media's-(all staffed by younger folks than me) love affair with all things trivial and not one bit news-worthy be the bane of so-called news? Look at all the talking heads-Ann Coulter ring a bell?

You tell me that we have the biggest slice of the pie-(and maybe we do) but we worked for it at those menial jobs also. Your generation seems to think that they should go right to the top with little on no work experience or life experience. And being young gives you no more insight and clear thinking. Remember we were ALL young once and thought the exact same things, nothing new there, Sparky.

As for Marilyn Manson, et al. we had Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath who our parents hated just as much, and they blamed all the terrible things on them also.

Please tell me who "the powers that be" that stopped the Vietnam War? Evidently it isn't you or you would have named them. Ever heard about the 1968 Democratic Chicago mess?

As for the paleolithic 60's in music will any of your fly-by-night wannabe bands ever last as long? Not a snowball's chance in hell. They are retreading the same stuff over and over trying to create something new-here's a news flash-it ain't happening Britney.

So take your thumb out of your mouth, and shut your mouth and DO SOMETHING with your life! Because actions speak louder than words. Buh-Bye young whippersnappers.