I found the following clip that seems to indicate the growing popularity of Facebook. I did not know for certain, but I had a feeling that Facebook was growing by leaps and bounds. Read on and share your thoughts.
As the social networking site gets the boot, there are lessons to be learned |
The kids are ditching MySpace for Facebook. According to the latest numbers from comScore Media Metrix, U.S. MySpace visitors under 18 dropped 30 percent over the past year, while Facebook’s nearly tripled. |
Is it simply the fickle nature of teens? Is it because Facebook, with its ties to real-world school affiliations, seems safer? Or could it be that average American teenagers don’t want to be labeled like this: |
| Latino/Hispanic teens, immigrant teens, “burnouts,” “alternative kids,” “art fags,” punks, emos, goths, gangstas, queer kids, and other kids who didn’t play into the dominant high school popularity paradigm. (sic) |
| That’s how UC Berkeley researcher danah boyd (lowercase is how she legally spells it) described teen MySpace users in her “blog essay” Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace, which exploded all over the Internet last month |
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I’ve never been one for myspace. My sister-in-law is always telling me to get a myspace page. My nephew also wants me and my brother to get one. I told my brother if he wanted to join a social network, he should join facebook. To me, myspace is for kids and I wouldn’t want to be linked to a myspace page. Facebook has a lot to offer. My sister-in-law says it’s good because you can put up photos and videos and share them, but I already have a flickr account and I prefer my flickr accoun t for sharing photos that all of my family can get to without going to a website that may rash their browser or start playing music or video instantly. There are a lot of others options out there for photo and video, and I think they do a much better job.
You’re right about myspace, especially about profile pages. I am less likely to visit my friends pages because I don’t want to deal with crashing my browser.
Surprisingly, the average age for myspace users is around 35. Makes you wonder how that happened.
i just joined Facebook in late May after my 4 month stint on Semester at Sea. All the (college age) students said it was the best way to keep up with them without 700 emails. I was skeptical, don’t like the myspace layout (yeah, i’m 34 and those pages make me feel like I’m trying to be 14 w/ all the crap crammed on them and decorations and all that stuff…blech). Facebook is just “classier” in my opinion. It is starting to get crowded with all of the “fun” plug-ins, but its manage-able chaos. And those 35 y/o on my space are probably trolling for 14 year olds!
I’ll look for you and add you as a friend. Be on the lookout.
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