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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."
To Catch a Predator.
From the perspective of a typical Daily Telegraph reader, they're all "youngsters", so there's no point in making a distinction.
Will it take them less than 4 days to find the email addresses of old friends and then realise that the rest of the site is pointless crap, and that they can't remove their profiles?
My mom's on myspace and its really embarrassing. All my friends at school are saying how hot she is and its really disgusting. Can you please e-mail her and tell her to hop off because she's ruining her son's life? thx
Previously, my desires to flame the dean of students, trick him into clicking a goatse link, and infect his computer with gay porn had all been sadly unfulfilled due to his troglodytic eschewing of modern technology.
But now that the elder generation is seeking parity with the younger, we can at last unveil the full weaponry of the internet.
When things get complex, multiply by the complex conjugate.
Coincidentally my Dad just signed up for Facebook last week (he's 58). So having noted that, I can now definitively say, without having actually read the article (because, really who does that?) and having examined exactly one piece of anecdotal evidence: the over 50 crown is definitely joining social networking sites in droves.
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How long before we start seeing our parents posting embarrassing messages on our walls though?
"Hey son, those are some rad tunes on your interblog site! What's that? It's got a good beat!"
Thank god they can't dance online. (obligatory Mary Whitehouse experience reference)
In fact my mother just set up a facebook page, the horror.
It's My Tea and I'll Drink it if I Want To!
Anyone who is posting on Slashdot in their 20s has no life.
Anyone who is posting on Slashdot in their 50s has had no life.
Actually we are living well and posting on Slashdot. WE have the time now.
The rest of you have to go to school or WORK. Shudder. And a Beer and Slashdot,
what could be better?
Don't say Camming Nude, that is SOOO CUSEEME ! Circa 1995.
Just because you're older doesn't mean you're a techno-moron. I'm in that demographic, and I even hang out with the Slashdot crowd once in a while and I, ah, what was the question? Why am I downstairs?
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
You retired from reality? When did you join Facebook?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Also I am intermittently loading the dishwasher between sentences.
Oh. And here I was, thinking you just fell asleep between sentences. My bad, sorry.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
A 35 year old is not a baby boomer Anyone born in the 68-82 is generation X.
;-)
Which includes
Gwen Stefani
Cameron Diaz
Drew Barrymore
This is not your moms generation this is your younger hot stepmoms generation
WrinklyFaceBook? Shudder!
I have excellent Karma and I am not afraid to Troll it.
Well, let's see. Which ones have a Myspace account?
Information wants to be free.
Entertainment wants to be paid.
You just want to be cheap.
I never did go for this 'new-fangled htmlised' comment posting!
My ancient weathered fingers can't take the extra typing of the tags on the keyboard!
(ironically I am wearing a 'splint' on my left hand due to a RSI! a sure sign of old age - maybe I should stop typing from the bedroom window!)
Ahhh there's my sense of humour I wondered where it went to!
Joking aside...
This is the only forum I feel I truly belong - I very seldom post comments anywhere else.
There are people from many different backgrounds here which makes slashdot so interesting to read and sometimes even educational.
I am going for my afternoon nap now...
That's life.
Ironic isn't it?
We would have drown you all at birth, but we need someone to serve us our food.
I don't care why you're posting AC
IHBT
-mcgrew
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
No, the point of "Social Networking" is to find people JUST LIKE YOU, only in a much larger area than you can cover with traditional networking.
That was just Usenet (before it was dominated by binaries).