More popular than ever with young people in the U.S.

Facebook has no fucks to give to the 16-18 year old British demographic.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

Check with your teen relatives. MOst of mine only use it to thank Grandma for birthday and Christmas gifts.

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You cannot make me care about the WNBA.

My kids still use it but do other things like insta chat or whatever.

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Done. Still popular.

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Like they're gonna tell their old uncle IMU what's really up.

"dude, your grandmother sent me a friend request."
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Thanksgiving dinner:

"What hasn't your new girlfriend Madison accepted my friend request? I'm still facebook friends with your ex-gf's Kaylie and Vermont. Kaylie has a nice new bf, wasn't he your best friend in 10th grade? And Vermont just had a baby, could it be yours?"
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"Facebook friends?! I thought I was your only facebook friend on your fb profile under your nickname because you said you'd never have a better friend than your own mother."
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"Way to go son, you've managed to piss off 3 generations of women with that not-so-smart phone. In my day, the only way we knew what the neighbors were up to was gossiping down at the corner tavern and listening in on the party line.:"
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They've been pretty horrible at just about everything they've done in the past few years. This could be a General Motors style collapse in hyper speed.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

They also have the issue--exacerbated by the attempt to force everyone to use their real name--of individuals having blow-ups/issues on facebook logging off and never going back. People really need at least 3 different ID's on facebook: family, work, social. Going back to allowing folks to have aliases is probably in facebook's future. they already are being more lenient about what usernames they allow to skate.

The people I know who use facebook the most are part of a facebook group with whom they have some common interest/connection and they have many members posting regularly; which is a bbs with slightly better notifications but a far worse layout. Trying to catch up on a thread with a lot of posts on facebook is impossible.

Why?

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and work often changes up for folks. Having a professional FB profile page is sorta what linkedin is trying to be.

I think having a separate FB group for family only is one way folks deal with keeping their social lives and family lives from overlapping. Maybe for older folks their social lives are so calcified (married or divorced with children) that they've no need to keep family from mixing with their social lives.

aren't next-gen social media apps basically responses to the relative permanence of the FB profile? SnapChat

If FB wants to survive, they need a concept other than a single profile with folks from every aspect of your life all jumbled up in one place. Maybe moving away from friending everyone and having 1 all-encompassing timeline to joining groups and having a few iterations of your profile and friends for different groups is some part of that answer.

Whatever they are going to do, they need to do it soon while they still have the largest footprint in the social media landscape, lest they join Friendster and MySpace in the social media history museum.

You pretty much describe Google+...which blows...

There's way more older people on facebook than there ever were on myspace. I think t will last but not as big as it was five years ago obviously. Kids are already abandoning twitter for Instagram (which I believe is owned by facebook). Two years from now it will be something else thats not even around yet.

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He doesn't want his worlds colliding.

For what reason it does not matter. Facebook is now entrenched (particularly with older folks) as a connection tool standard. While the stock may not stay good (I don't care) it will be around a long time regardless of kids.

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yeah, facebook bought instagram and then proceeded to change the TOS to one that basically said "all your photos are belong to us. we can do whatever the fuck we want with them, we can monetize them, and we owe you absolutely nothing because you're dumb and desperate enough to upload them to us as opposed to sharing them via your own webspace/devices" and many predicted it would be the death of instagram because countless people stopped using it.

but then a funny thing happened, the old media started referencing countless celebrities/athletes instagrams and showed you that they had a giant comments wall next to their pictures, so then the ~1week media cycle on the evil "fuck you" TOS rules vanished and suddenly every stupid kid wanted to comment on a bieber/kardashian/athlete photo because for a few fleeting minutes their comments with @stupidnameX will be next to the celeb's picture, and now instagram is en masse spammed by everyone and everything because even if other media companies don't directly profit from instagram, they do eventually profit from conditioning people to do all of the creative/legwork for them and then hand over the media to their bandwith-oligarchs because ever since the internet has leveled the communication/distribution/publishing-medium playing fields, welp, now the whole game is basically getting people to the point where you're "weird" if you don't use these services which basically own all of your works just like they tell you if you read the TOS (you don't. and it's not like i do either) which means that over time the concept of people owning anything online is going to be completely gone. upload all your stuff to the cloud, btw.... this laptop i got for x-mas '12 won't stop bugging me about the dell cloud asking why don't i use it?

fuck you and your cloud. the forecast is sunny over here.

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