Facebook users aging fast. "A parlor for the middle-aged?" • Hacker News Board

Re: Facebook users aging fast. "A parlor for the middle-aged?"

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Post by zimbabwe » Thu, Jul 09, 2009, 2:46 PM UTC

Agent101 wrote: post #14

gaius wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And you can set who can search for tagged pictures of you...

I think the average person will find it easier to socialise on two different sites or possibly have two different facebook identities, rather than altering the settings so that they can make sure that relatives can't see pictures of them looking silly or doing things that they wouldn't approve of.

Because it's a lot easier to create two separate IDs and log in and out between the two of them, or to bookmark two separate sites in the hopes that the same friends use both of them and that the interface is just as easy to use on both of them or that the features are equally good on both. Come on.

Re: Facebook users aging fast. "A parlor for the middle-aged?"

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Post by xuhu » Thu, Jul 09, 2009, 2:46 PM UTC

mattmaroon wrote: post #19

Anyone know of a decent firefox extension for sending print articles back to the regular web page? I keep my browser maxed on a 1920x1200 monitor, so these are unreadable (though they're great on my Pre). I'd rather have ads and pictures than a giant wall of text, especially since I have adblock, but is there anyone else who shares that need?

Maybe remove the "&type=printable" at the end of the URL ?

Re: Facebook users aging fast. "A parlor for the middle-aged?"

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Post by tokenadult » Thu, Jul 09, 2009, 2:57 PM UTC

I'm one of those middle-aged users of Facebook. What I find appalling about Facebook is how much its context changes users' online behavior. Many of the people on my friends list of Facebook are people I also know from specialized, topical email lists. On the email lists, the people are serious and thoughtful, but on Facebook some of the same people let loose with a bajillion "What grocery produce section vegetable are you?" quizzes and endless flair and bling and mafia wars. My friends are less my friends, and more of an annoyance, on the Facebook platform. Facebook turns adults into kids.

So although I appreciate Facebook for linking me up to a few former classmates from childhood (my first Facebook friend was one such), if I want to do what I really enjoy, as a grown-up adult, I look for those same friends in other contexts. And that, I think, is why Facebook is extremely unlikely to build a business model through which it can gain more revenue per user than it has expenses per user to serve up cute photographs and videos.

Re: Facebook users aging fast. "A parlor for the middle-aged?"

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Post by Agent101 » Thu, Jul 09, 2009, 3:26 PM UTC

zimbabwe wrote: post #21

Agent101 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the average person will find it easier to socialise on two different sites or possibly have two different facebook identities, rather than altering the settings so that they can make sure that relatives can't see pictures of them looking silly or doing things that they wouldn't approve of.

Because it's a lot easier to create two separate IDs and log in and out between the two of them, or to bookmark two separate sites in the hopes that the same friends use both of them and that the interface is just as easy to use on both of them or that the features are equally good on both. Come on .

I'm not suggesting that the same friends use both of them, I'm suggesting that the youth will partition their social lives like they already do.

You have your friends and you have your family. You want your granny to be able to see the pictures your mum took, but you don't want your mum to know you are friends with bobby that she disapproves of.