Facebook Admits Teens Are Bored With It

[GasaiYuno]

Facebook has officially acknowledged that teens have become bored of facebook lately and are looking for other social media to interact with people.

In its its annual 10-K report facebook said that :

"We believe that some of our users, particularly our younger users, are aware of and actively engaging with other products and services similar to, or as a substitute for, Facebook. For example, we believe that some of our users have reduced their engagement with Facebook in favor of increased engagement with other products and services such as Instagram. In the event that our users increasingly engage with other products and services, we may experience a decline in user engagement and our business could be harmed."

A week ago, Facebook Director of Product Blake Ross announced that he’d leave the company in a goodbye letter he posted on his profile page. Ross had written:

"I’m leaving because a Forbes writer asked his son’s best friend Todd if Facebook was still cool and the friend said no, and plus none of HIS friends think so either, even Leila who used to love it, and this journalism made me reconsider the long-term viability of the company.
Ross later retracted the letter saying that it was not meant to be taken seriously.

According to a report on the Verge:

At some point, adding these details, like hundreds of photos from a recent vacation and status updates about your new job amounted to bragging — force-feeding Facebook friends information they didn’t ask for. What was once cool was now uncool. Worse yet, it started to feel like work. Maybe the burden of constantly constructing immaculate digital profiles of ourselves is tiring. "I find it boring, and I don’t really care about knowing all my friends’ details anymore," my fifteen-year-old cousin Neah Bois wrote to me. "I think it’s stupid when people post a lot of pictures about their lives and all that stuff… I go on to talk to family and connect, but really I only go on once a week or so."​

sources - http://www.businessinsider.com/its-offi ... ook-2013-3 and http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/1/404959 ... sing-teens

 

[Fergal]

That's interesting, I wonder will we see any exciting developments coming out of FaceBook to counteract this. FaceBook has been a strong competitor to forums, perhaps people will spend more time on forums, as they become bored with FaceBook.

 

[jdab]

The new timeline is being shown today, so we'll see what they do about it 🙂

 

[AndroidOS]

I've always found Facebook boring, to be honest. I've just never seen the point of using a website to communicate with people that I know live down the street. 😛 Also, called my old fashioned, but I prefer to use a phone for those family/friends who don't live near me. It makes it feel more personal.

 

[SheepishWolf]

It'll probably be the same as Facebook soon. That's bad news for Facebook, but good news for webmasters who are creating or looking to create the next big social networking site.

 

[VirusZero]

Personally I'm glad to see people stepping away from facebook. (Even if it's only because they think facebook is boring, so long as they leave facebook. Eventually, hopefully, not having or using facebook will be the norm again.)

I've always drawn issue with how facebook has done business...
From:
- it's verified apps scheme
- to how someone can buy 1 million facebook accounts (and how facebook tries to lie about how those accounts were acquired.)
- and that "Sponsored Ads" nonsense where they used real people's accounts to promote things without their consent... mentioned here.

To many other things (like how much data they collect about users both with and without user's consent or knowledge and how they use that data).

I've also found it a bit insidious that this site has pretty much invaded and taken over how people communicate. That site is so pervasive that if you don't have a facebook account you end up being rather left behind for social events.

 

[Rick Ace]

If you read the article carefully, I think Facebook is trying to save itself by trying to insist that users are just moving to instagram, which is owned by the same company. It's funny that they didn't mention websites like pininterest. They also forgot to mention that Twitter is making gains in younger adults.

 

[Fergal]

There are many concerns regarding privacy on FaceBook. As with all things on the Internet you should be very careful as to what information you post on FaceBook. If you add info on your FaceBook account, Facebook will obviously have access to that information and when you post something on FaceBook you should assume that the world may be able to see it. Even if you have strict privacy settings, someone in your Friends list may decide to share or tag whatever it is you post.

Personally I don't have a problem with FaceBook, I use it to connect with friends I know in the real world and I enjoy it as a way of keeping in touch with those friends, many of whom live overseas.

 

[Jimmy]

I personally have lost interest in Facebook over the past year or so. I don't really care to be on there all the time and all that, i just get on check my stuff and get on for the most part. I also don't trust Facebook one bit honestly, even though i don't put much on there that could get me in trouble i still don't trust them.

 

[GasaiYuno]

I also lost interest in FAcebook too, and I've always found it boring even if I am not a teenager.

 

[froggyboy604]

I still use Facebook to keep in touch with family members, and friends.

Facebook being boring could also mean a lot of people are picking friends who are not really friends, so they are bored, but they hang out on Facebook and reality to be cool, not be a loner, or fit in with a certain crowd like the jocks, geeks, and stoners.

I mainly use Facebook as a feed by reading new posts on video games, music, movies, and other pages which I like since Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are the best websites for finding news about less popular music, movies, games, and books since a lot of independant and Asian music, movies, games, and books don't really update their website, send out e-mail newsletters, or have a website at all, so they usually post their news on their Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter, or their fans post it for them on non-offical fan pages for a music artist.

I feel Facebook would be more of a place to find current/real-time information on concerts, movies, games, and music instead of hanging out with friends since there isn't really many popular websites for current information about concerts, movie tickets, and other info since Wikipedia can take a long time for someone to edit less popular articles, and people need more than 140 characters like on Twitter to post concert times, and locations for a music festival.

 

[GasaiYuno]

I still use Facebook to keep in touch with family members, and friends.

Facebook being boring could also mean a lot of people are picking friends who are not really friends, so they are bored, but they hang out on Facebook and reality to be cool, not be a loner, or fit in with a certain crowd like the jocks, geeks, and stoners.

I mainly use Facebook as a feed by reading new posts on video games, music, movies, and other pages which I like since Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are the best websites for finding news about less popular music, movies, games, and books since a lot of independant and Asian music, movies, games, and books don't really update their website, send out e-mail newsletters, or have a website at all, so they usually post their news on their Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter, or their fans post it for them on non-offical fan pages for a music artist.

I feel Facebook would be more of a place to find current/real-time information on concerts, movies, games, and music instead of hanging out with friends since there isn't really many popular websites for current information about concerts, movie tickets, and other info since Wikipedia can take a long time for someone to edit less popular articles, and people need more than 140 characters like on Twitter to post concert times, and locations for a music festival.

Yep, I agree with that. Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube both pretty much bring in a lot of underrated things.

 

[Pebbles]

like i always say
i dont book my faces
:shrug: 😉​