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It isn't like a bunch of old people are now trying to hang out with the young cool kids causing the entire system to be less cool.
One middle aged woman I spoke to on the plane noted that there is a need to be able to "compartmentalize" one's online social networking, much as one does this for work. Her country club employees (where she works) have Facebook profiles which she uses to try and make contacts for new sales, and she finds that some of her fellow early 20's employees have Spring Break pictures only a few clicks away from hers. Not the best thing for her. I suggested LinkedIn, but this doesn't quite work for what she has in mind.
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The trouble is it is not only you that has to follow those guidelines. Friends can put up pictures of you and tag you. Not all content about you is placed there by you.
And you can also un-tag those pictures of yourself.
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The trouble is it is not only you that has to follow those guidelines. Friends can put up pictures of you and tag you. Not all content about you is placed there by you.
And you can set who can search for tagged pictures of you...
Calculating the aggregate age of all facebook users is irrelevant since the only people who matter to you on the site are your "friends". So my 15 year old cousin's friends are mostly her real world peers and her 45 year old dad's friends are mostly her peers. While there is a tiny overlap, it wouldn't be considered significant. It isn't like a bunch of old people are now trying to hang out with the young cool kids c…
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And you can also un-tag those pictures of yourself.
But the damage may be done by the time you get around to it.
The difference between 25 and 45 is much much less than the difference between "hit up my wall" and "whats 'the facebook'?" Age as a signifier in itself is slipping.
My own use of facebook is probably a-typical, but I have used it to reconnect with a bunch of people that I'd lost touch with over the years, now that that has happened I'm no longer an active user, we communicate using different media now. No need for me to visit facebook to keep in touch, email, the phone and so on work just fine.
I hope I'm not the only one who doesn't care how old anyone else is. So what if your parents (or your kids, or your teachers, or your employer, or anyone else is on Facebook). The guidelines of Facebook oughta be the same as the guidelines of hn which oughta be the same as the guidelines of kindergarden. Don't post anything you'd be embarassed if anyone else saw and don't say anything online you wouldn't say in perso…
Those crazy kids are a fickle bunch, and throughout history they've wanted to not be where their parents hang out. But it looks like Facebook is trying to grow past it's original niche into the online identity provider for all. Which means someone else will have to fill the void to give kids a chance to discuss sex, drugs, and whatever other startling discoveries they seem to make on a daily basis.
Those crazy kids are a fickle bunch, and throughout history they've wanted to not be where their parents hang out.
But with Facebook the two groups are separate. Think of it as a house: It's all one place, but each group has their privacy. The parents can have a dinner party upstairs while the kids get drunk and party in the basement.