Nothing stays still in cyberspace

Featured. Posting written by msweeks about 1 year ago.
Last comment about 1 year ago, 2 Comments.

Just read this from ReadWriteWeb:

How fickle are kids these days? Just when all the grown ups started figuring out Facebook, college and high school users have declined in absolute number by 20% and 15% respectively in a mere six months, according to estimates Facebook provides to advertisers that were archived for tracking by an outside firm. Facebook users aged 55 and over have skyrocketed from under 1 million to nearly six million in the same time period. There are more Facebook users over 55 years old today than there are high school students using the site.

Revenge of the wrinklies...great stuff

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Profile_pic_medium jgilliam

Wouldn't this be roughly the number of people who graduated from High School and College in the last couple months?

posted about 1 year ago

Wot__medium pnash

Does Facebook empower or does it just connect? Is the sense of a connected community of interest creating a comfort zone or is it seen as an empowering force. I suspect the former which is why the wrinkies revenge piece is taking over from the young. I'm not sure I class as a wrinkly yet. I suspect that jgilliam may have a point about graduates and I have no doubt that they will return in time but they don't need that particular community at the moment.

I don't use Facebook, I don't Twitter but I do seek communities that serve my interests - such as this one - and communities that give me a voice such as http://www.ePractice.eu or http://net.digitalengagement.org/. Where I need a voice then I create a community http://thesquareprees.ning.com/ and in time that community will move on or change or die.

What I'm trying to say is that the ability to participate in an on-line social sense is a step on the way to empowerment in a politicl sense. What is interesting is discovering the levers that we can pull to move people along this path.

posted about 1 year ago

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