The other day my sister and I went to dinner and she relayed this bit of information to me: Mom has a facebook. My sister then expressed her dilemma whether or not to accept our mother's friendship on the very popular social networking site. Honestly, I knew it would all come in time. It's kind of like when my mom began texting. I personally don't have a problem with my mom becoming tech-savvy mom - my mom and I are pretty cool. Now my dad joining social networking would be a different story...
Recent research shows that social networking logins are actually down from recent years, particularly among teens. Could this be because their parents (not to mention employers and school administrators) have invaded their technological space? Check out this relevant and comedic video from The Onion:
Facebook, Twitter Revolutionizing How Parents Stalk Their College-Aged Kids
That and maybe some parents are figuring out what social networking sites are and are trying to prevent their kids from doing so. And besides, teens have no reason to social network. They see each other every day. Those of us who graduated college and high school keep in contact by these sites.
ReplyDeleteBogie, I have two sets of parents, so that's four parents altogether, and they are all on Facebook. It's really weird for me. I agree with Bobby about teens having no reason to social network. It really is just a way to stay up on the juicy gossip (the relationship status is like gold to some of them). When I was in high school we just used AIM and would play online games. What ever happened to AIM?
ReplyDeleteI still use AIM! A lot. Probably more than I did in high school.
ReplyDeleteSame here. I'm on AIM 24/7. I don't think kids today (what am I, 52 years-old?) use AIM b/c they just text.
ReplyDeleteoooooohhhh that's true. I never thought of that!
ReplyDeleteI haven't used AIM since text and social networking became huge...does that make me a kid/high school teenager?
ReplyDeleteI use AIM through Gmail.
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