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Researchers Claim Facebook Is 'Dead and Buried' To Many Young Users
JoeyRox writes "The recent decline in Facebook's popularity with teenagers appears to be worsening. A Global Social Media Impact study of 16 to 18 year olds found that many considered the site 'uncool' and keep their profiles alive only to keep in touch with older relatives, for whom the site remains popular. Researches say teens have switched to using WhatsApp, Snapchat, and Twitter in place of Facebook."
All I've ever seen contributed by teens is slang and whining and posts of crap they claim is music.
Now get off my lawn!
All I've ever seen contributed on Facebook is utterly pointless drivel, of which 95% no one has use for.
The kids have a point, and it's about damn time the de facto authentication mechanism of the Internet gets a reality check. I'm rather tired of trying to visit (any random) site to sign up for their services only to find a fucking Facebook login box. Get out of my face with that shit already.
Happy mowing.
My wife and I have set down some simple but effective rules.
1) They get 1 hr per day to use the computer for playing World of Warcraft or other various on-line games.
2) If they have homework that requires internet research, which seems to be all they get from their teachers these days, one of us must be around.
3) They are not allowed to have any email, facebook, twitter, etc. If they want to communicate or hang out with friends and family they can use the phone or ride their bikes over to the other person's house.
They actually get out of the house and socialize with their peers and learn how to interact and communicate.
We have our moments where they try to be sneaky and create an account. We catch them and then sit down and actually talk to them and ask why they needed to do such actions in the first place, and after the conversation every time we find a solution without having to create any on-line identity for our children.
They do not even have their own cell phone/smart phone/tablet. But main reason is they don't need it, whenever they go out of house they have either my cell phone or my wife's cell phone. And I have the phones set up where all you can do is use the text messenger or phone dialer unless you enter specific override password.
Will there come a day when they must have an account? The answer is yes. We already know my son will have to setup an e-mail account next year for a few of his high school classes but that is next year. But even then we will have restrictions and will be monitoring it like we do now.
But the only reason this works for us is because we take the time and effort to raise our children.