Comments on: Study: Kids No Longer Into Social Networking

By: seba

seba — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:53:22 +0000

I think the reason for this to happen is that teenagers spend more and more time on the internet.
And the current social networks are you just not entertaining enough.
Go for a 3 hour period on myspace and you’ll be bored to hell, it’s nothing more than waiting for anything to happen.
Facebook has the advantage of the applications that bring some extra ‘fun’ in.
But the things that are already working for years are things where you don’t need to wait for interaction.
So you need to find something that can be interesting for hours and hours (like some popular online (text-based) games).

By: SSJ

SSJ — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:27:58 +0000

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By: arkinstall

arkinstall — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 11:08:34 +0000

The most common reason for why they’ve canceled their MySpace and Facebook accounts: social networking is a time sink.

On top of that, prestigious universities (Cambridge & Oxford) have been known to research people who apply (Why I cancelled my bEbo, but not facebook).

On the internet your personality is amplified many times over for one simple reason. We have to express ourselves using just images and text, make a profile of ourselves.

As a teen myself, I know that image is VITAL in today’s world. People are associated with groups – Chavs + Gangsters, Emos, Goths + Greebos, Geeks + Nerds, and tyical intellegent people. I’m in the latter, and it offers more freedom over who we are – I dress in a shirt and jeans, others may dress completely different. In other social groups, you need to dress to suit.

So, that’s what happens on Social Networking sites – people have their personallity portrayed at an amplified volume, to please their social group.

Of course, this doesn’t really portray the person themselves, and looking back on them you’d think ‘What the hell was I thinking?’. That’s what the unis think too – this person is obviously immature, depressed, violent etc.

That’s the big flaw with social networking. People make a false image of themselves to show to the rest of the world.

By: arkinstall

arkinstall — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 10:58:05 +0000

I only use Facebook now and then to post photos and accept friend requests.

I never really got the hype of it at all – and, let’s face it, if you want a life then you should live it properly.

Want to keep up with friends and family? Yeah mr A.G.Bell and mr K.Benz invented your solutions a long time ago.

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 09:29:55 +0000

I don’t think its a question of kids liking social networks or not, I think they just hear about all these sites, try them out (and so they appear in the statistics) but then they get bored and move onto the next fad because 11/10 social network sites are piles of poop.

18-30 year-olds on the other hand pick one service which they like the best, and stick with it and actually use it.

By: Josh Catone

Josh Catone — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:56:41 +0000

@ruby-land and SP360: I think the point, though, is that the study implies that these kids used to be more avid users of social networking and have since stopped.

Anecdotally, I have also noticed many of my friends in my age group (I’m 25 years old) begin to shy away from online social networks and rely more on phone, email, face-to-face and even snail mail for communication. The most common reason for why they’ve canceled their MySpace and Facebook accounts: social networking is a time sink.

By: ruby-lang

ruby-lang — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:39:46 +0000

I think kids don’t see much use because it’s easy to meet their friends face to face or at least call them. After all, most are neighbors, relatives, or schoolmates. As they get older and their social networks become more complex, they will join a site.

By: BlakeAnthony

BlakeAnthony — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 06:46:23 +0000

Thats funny. Yeah every kid has either gone on myspace or facebook or some type of social networking website before in their life.I have been doing social networking for about 2 years or more and i can tell that alot of my friends aren’t doing myspace, or facebook anymore. Kids just got sick of it you know? There were to many users that got addicted to it and didnt do anything else beside myspace or facebook. And after while the kids were like omg this sucks its so boring waiting for ur new Information to pop up saying you have a new message or you have a new wall to wall Message.But this is a good post Im intrested in what is going to be next. Hm, i wander if someone is gonna come out with something new that attracts the younger crowd to make them want to use their service. Its intresting to see what .com website is gonna be big in the next years. WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF new age programming. :)

By: Fernando

Fernando — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 06:08:42 +0000

If using Facebook or Myspace to define social media, then I can agree there is a decline. Both services are a mess of widgets and gadgets disguised as applications. They serve no purpose to a younger, more tech savvy audience.

By: SP360

SP360 — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:54:20 +0000

Who cares about 13-17 year olds. Those kids are useless and dont convert any cash for webmasters. When they get older, they eventually get back to Social Networking sites to see pictures of parties they missed etc. or chat with class mates and so on, so in my opinion, its a good thing these 13-17 year olds are off of social networks.