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Facebook Is No Longer the Most Popular Social Network for Teens

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Re: Facebook Is No Longer the Most Popular Social Network for Teens

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Post by chrisarriola »

kbenson wrote: post #19

The other night at dinner my eleven year old daughter asked me "What's instagam?" and then proceeded to ask if she could have an account because all her friends were on it. I told her no because I don't like the idea of her on a social network yet (and it's probably against their TOS anyway). Truthfully, I don't know why there isn't a K-12 social network that has schools and teachers, and kids were grouped by class,…

Edmodo is mainly for augmenting the classroom and isn't designed and used for student-to-student social networking outside of topics in the class. It's a great tool though for educating kids with what is considered appropriate/inappropriate behavior online.

Re: Facebook Is No Longer the Most Popular Social Network for Teens

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Post by amplification »

scopendo wrote: post #15
ra88it wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Teens represent the near future. They'll grow up and maybe carry their allegiances forward.

Maybe - though my guess is that they'll join a university population and/or workforce and start interacting with the wider world, that just happens to be significantly on Facebook. But at 40 mine is hardly a relevant opinion :)

My guess is they'll join university & the workforce, and then they'll join the world's most popular social network: email. ;)

Re: Facebook Is No Longer the Most Popular Social Network for Teens

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Post by kbenson »

ellumiakat wrote: post #30
kbenson wrote: post #19

The other night at dinner my eleven year old daughter asked me "What's instagam?" and then proceeded to ask if she could have an account because all her friends were on it. I told her no because I don't like the idea of her on a social network yet (and it's probably against their TOS anyway). Truthfully, I don't know why there isn't a K-12 social network that has schools and teachers, and kids were grouped by class,…

I'd be worried about the burden this places on teachers (if they are policing it). The normal age 15 cut off seems reasonable. Kids can just deal with it (or resourcefully sneak around if so inclined).

Well, by moderation I mean the teacher has full control, not that the teacher has to every response (but maybe every post). Read-only parent accounts could help with this.

Re: Facebook Is No Longer the Most Popular Social Network for Teens

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Post by [deleted] »

kbenson wrote: post #19

The other night at dinner my eleven year old daughter asked me "What's instagam?" and then proceeded to ask if she could have an account because all her friends were on it. I told her no because I don't like the idea of her on a social network yet (and it's probably against their TOS anyway). Truthfully, I don't know why there isn't a K-12 social network that has schools and teachers, and kids were grouped by class,…

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Re: Facebook Is No Longer the Most Popular Social Network for Teens

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Post by PeterisP »

kbenson wrote: post #28
alex_doom wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because kids would never use it. They like their hidden caves. It's similar to passing secret notes to each other in class. Except now they can do it from afar.

Oh, they would use it if it was a valuable resource for asking for help with homework, communicating with other students and teachers, the only way to contact some of their friends (which aren't allowed on other networks), or in any way mandated. Parents would like it for the control it offered, and kids aren't in total control of their choices. Kids might also want and indeed use other social networks, but I would f…

Chicken and egg problem - they wouldn't be really active ther because they don't want to, and because noone is really active, then it wouldn't be a valuable resource for homework and communicating with other students.

I've seen a large implementation (around 1/3 schools in my area) that technically could do all that, but you can only 'mandate' a horse to the water but can't make it drink - in the end, they were used for parents to look up grades communicate with teachers, while kids used only the absolutely practical things rarely, and since they couldn't be mandatory (as not 100% can afford a computer at home) it sort of died out. It would be fun to ask the developers what percent of kids sent even a single message to another kid... All at the same time, the ten year olds are extremely active online elsewhere.

Re: Facebook Is No Longer the Most Popular Social Network for Teens

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Post by nemothekid »

amplification wrote: post #6

I find Silicon Valley's obsession with teens fascinating. Why is teen usage a benchmark for the health of a startup? Do teenagers spend money online? Is there any research on that?

Are facebook and twitter still startups?

Re: Facebook Is No Longer the Most Popular Social Network for Teens

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Post by kunai »

Social networks: the best way to waste time ever invented in the history of history.

I never saw a need for any of them. Twitter had potential, but it got overrun by people who somehow felt the need to rant about their opinions on political decisions without being completely educated about any of them, by celebrities, by people who can't spell, and by people who think that @messages are the perfect way to privately communicate on the internet.

I really don't see Snapchat lasting for longer than a year. The others will stay around for a while, but then eventually fade into irrelevance... like all trends that don't provide palpable services, e.g. Google et des autres fournisseurs de recherches.

Re: Facebook Is No Longer the Most Popular Social Network for Teens

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Post by frostmatthew »

baddox wrote: post #23

> Twitter has overtaken Facebook as the social media network that is most important to teens, according to Piper Jaffray's semi-annual teen market research report. Twitter is the new king of teens, with 26 percent naming it as their "most important" social site. (emphasis mine)

> Only 23 percent said Facebook was most important

(emphasis mine)

A difference of ~3 points in a group as fickle as teenagers isn't very significant.

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