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Everyone seems concerned with teenagers fleeing facebook, but I've found that I have also been "fleeing" facebook. My time spent on the site has been diminishin

by adregan 13y ago

Everyone seems concerned with teenagers fleeing facebook, but I've found that I have also been "fleeing" facebook. My time spent on the site has been diminishing—partly due to the fact that in my late 20s, so many of my friends are posting picture after picture of their children—and as my time spent on the site diminishes, I notice that stories I'd probably care have been squeezed out of the news feed, making the site less interesting and feeding into my distance. I know I'll probably keep the account for reconnecting with old friends every few months or so, but I get the feeling that the way I use and think about facebook needs to shift for me to get any sort of value beyond occasionally checking in on people or requesting phone #'s when I happen to be in the same town.

larrys 13y ago
"in my late 20s, so many of my friends are posting picture after picture of their children" I'm older and I can't even imagine what it would be like if I had the amount of friends that younger people have and they all or even most posted pictures of their kids and every random event they attended. Even now with the amount that I do have (quite small by choice) it's to much. Wait to those children of your friends start playing sports or are in school plays (I'm assuming by your age the children are quite young I guess.)
- adregan 13y ago
  Posting videos of plays and soccer games probably recorded on a full size iPad. I hadn't thought of that, yet. It's terrifying.
- GFischer 13y ago
  Facebook does a great job of filtering what it shows you. I have lots of "friends" on Facebook, and once in a while I see a photo (usually of a major event) of a classmate I haven't seen in a long while and I didn't remember he was on my friends list. My Facebook use is mostly to keep in touch with my family abroad, and we have a closed group. I usually don't post much to my broader "friends" list.
enraged_camel 13y ago
As a 28-year old single male, browsing Facebook and seeing pictures of dating and married couples makes me feel like shit. It's ironic, because a tool that's supposed to keep people connected amplifies my feelings of loneliness. So I find myself checking it less and less often.

by adregan 13y ago

larrys 13y ago

"in my late 20s, so many of my friends are posting picture after picture of their children" I'm older and I can't even imagine what it would be like if I had the amount of friends that younger people have and they all or even most posted pictures of their kids and every random event they attended. Even now with the amount that I do have (quite small by choice) it's to much. Wait to those children of your friends start playing sports or are in school plays (I'm assuming by your age the children are quite young I guess.)

adregan 13y ago
Posting videos of plays and soccer games probably recorded on a full size iPad. I hadn't thought of that, yet. It's terrifying.
GFischer 13y ago
Facebook does a great job of filtering what it shows you. I have lots of "friends" on Facebook, and once in a while I see a photo (usually of a major event) of a classmate I haven't seen in a long while and I didn't remember he was on my friends list. My Facebook use is mostly to keep in touch with my family abroad, and we have a closed group. I usually don't post much to my broader "friends" list.

enraged_camel 13y ago

As a 28-year old single male, browsing Facebook and seeing pictures of dating and married couples makes me feel like shit. It's ironic, because a tool that's supposed to keep people connected amplifies my feelings of loneliness. So I find myself checking it less and less often.