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For a few years now, alarms have been sounded in various quarters about Facebook's teen problem. In 2013, one author explored why teens are tiring of Facebook, and according to Time, more than 11 million young people have fled Facebook since 2011. But many of these articles theorized that teens were moving instead to Instagram (a Facebook-owned property) and other social media platforms. In other words, teen flight was a Facebook problem, not a social media problem.
Today, however, the newest data increasingly support the idea that young people are actually transitioning out of using what we might term broadcast social media – like Facebook and Twitter – and switching instead to using narrowcast tools – like Messenger or Snapchat. Instead of posting generic and sanitized updates for all to see, they are sharing their transient goofy selfies and blow-by-blow descriptions of class with only their closest friends. [...]
- As social media usage has spread beyond the young, social media have become less attractive to young people.
- Many of the students I've spoken with avoid posting on sites like Facebook because, to quote one student, "Those pics are there forever!" Having grown up with these platforms, college students are well aware that nothing posted on Facebook is ever truly forgotten, and they are increasingly wary of the implications.
- Increasingly, young people are being warned that future employers, college admissions departments and even banks will use their social media profiles to form assessments. In response, many of them seem to be using social media more strategically.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by zugedneb on Tuesday February 09 2016, @12:56AM
They, as in teens, are going where people/society is not present...
Friend people for strategic reasons, not accepting friends, unfriending others has price.
Employers track you, school tracks you...
Well, you all know this already.
Facebook have become reality. And living in a "reality" has a price.
old saying: "a troll is a window into the soul of humanity" + also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax
(Score: 2, Interesting) by zugedneb on Tuesday February 09 2016, @01:02AM
By mistake I posted, before finishing...
The point would have been that one of the prices of reality is a loss of identity. The other of the prices is being associated with "the wrong" identity...
For many years now, just by reading about it, I thought that FaceBook is becoming a more than a bit like Japanese society.
The schools/employers only made it worse, it was sinking before that.
old saying: "a troll is a window into the soul of humanity" + also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Gravis on Tuesday February 09 2016, @01:21AM
The point would have been that one of the prices of reality is a loss of identity.
no, it's a loss of virtual identity, your avatar. you still get to be you no matter what. people don't need a page that has lots of personal information about them which is what they are discovering by deleting their accounts.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 09 2016, @06:52PM
Your identity is what people think you are. There is no "real me" and "virtual me", as if they're two entirely separate, unconnected entities, there's just "me". "Oh its just the internet, nothing on there counts, that's why its ok to make death threats and harass people until they kill themselves" is the road your thinking quickly goes to.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 09 2016, @06:55PM
inb4 the inevitable "grow thicker skin"-style victim blaming and "its just words".
(Score: 3, Funny) by mhajicek on Tuesday February 09 2016, @04:21AM
You blocked me on Facebook, and now you're going to die.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 09 2016, @10:04AM
Facebook have become reality. And living in a "reality" has a price.
If you die on Facebook, you die in real life!!
(Score: 1) by CHK6 on Tuesday February 09 2016, @03:31PM
Well said and agreed.
(Score: 0, Troll) by zugedneb on Tuesday February 09 2016, @05:55PM
just whoring for karma u stupid fuck...
just by saying stupid shit and agreeing with stupid crowd I am always at max...
still, I have not sunken so low as to praise the Snowden...
bwahahahahah
shitfuk
old saying: "a troll is a window into the soul of humanity" + also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax