Comments on: Why Are Baby Boomers Coming Back to Facebook Less?

By: DSM

DSM — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:10:34 +0000

Facebook used to have value for people you met EACH day. It was not intended for what it’s being used as now, to “reconnect”. They opened it up, and it took a dive into the childs crapper. Now it’s a spam filled waste hole that obviously isn’t going to attract sophisticated adults or even anyone with a brain. It’s become the 2nd version of MySpace. And you see who used that site and how idiotic it is.

But those of us who were on there in the BEGINNING and are in college networks; find it hard to leave. We didn’t need super pokes, super walls, hickville, or fraudulent fan pages made by spammers with yahoo accounts and 12 yr olds who can’t read. But it seems the rest of society does. And that’s now who FB caters to. The uneducated and simple minded.

The lst bastion of intellect is LinkedIn. But that’s not a social site. It’s for business. But any port in a storm until the next college only site takes hold and re-establishes some sanity.

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By: Amitav Chak

Amitav Chak — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 06:48:42 +0000

You are away from facebook or not based on age,I see the benefit out of this. With Facebook connect you can bring your friends every where and get opinions about anything. http://www.shopnics.com, they have beautifully used this concept while shopping. Now you do not goto social shopping sites, you can bring your friends there and get opinions while you are accessing the site. I think this is the fun of facebook.

By: Nancy Hopp

Nancy Hopp — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:29:01 +0000

Yes, I’m 55, and I deactivated my FB account a number of months ago.

Let me address the author’s contentions:

Reason 1: Dependent on email? Nope. Most of my friends are on FB, and I also tweet and text.

Reason 2: Overwhelming? Hardly. The UI is a no-brainer. And, besides, I work in the software industry.

Reason 3: Seasonality? Not in my experience.

Reason 4: A one-time thing? Nope. I explored it in depth and regularly logged on; also had the FB app installed on my BlackBerry.

“Are there other reasons people over 55 have been coming back to Facebook less in recent months?”

There sure are, and thanks for asking! Aside from the poking, quasi-stalking and other annoyances, the #1 reason — for me, at least — is that it’s simply a worthless waste of time.

Sure, it’s great keeping in touch with friends –up to a point. But learning that you took the bus home today or that you had eggs for breakfast is just way more info than I need to know. Hell, I don’t even care what ~I~ had for breakfast today!

People waaaaay overshare on FB. It all seems so personal, but even with restrictive settings, it’s really not. That’s why I deactivated my account.

Then again, maybe the last straw was the ingominy of having a sewage treatment plant named after me.

By: Cindy Bruce

Cindy Bruce — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:26:14 +0000

I find fb a slow, computer locking, annoying social media site. The apps with the poking, drinks and such very annoying and even slower to get rid of all the requests.

My friends and children are even moving away from it and some back to MySpace due to these issues. Twitter is more for business and MySpace for family connections in our circle.

By: Sharyn

Sharyn — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:38:31 +0000

It’s not because of the 4 reasons mentioned.It’s because the new Facebook screen is horrible and filled with extraneous junk. And slow. I’ve been a user of the Internet since 1991. The “old” Facebook was great. The new, ad-driven FB is not.

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