Is it really a surprise? Facebook started off as a site for college students. Then they slowly opened up to everyone. Then college students got older but stayed on facebook.
They went from that site for college students to coordinate events and talk shit with your friends (that you would never want your parents to find out about) to "that site my parents are on" and we're almost hitting the point of becoming "that site for seniors"
Kids will always want a way to communicate without their parents knowing. By it's very nature any site like it has a timer. Young kids use it, older people find it (or those younger people age out and become the older people), it dies. Usenet, mIRC, AOL Chat rooms, Xanga, Blogspot, Live Journal. Myspace. Facebook. Instagram. TikTok.
Facebook just happened to be around at the exact perfect time (and be funded by the CIA) for it to blow up and hit critical mass so that it's still around.
Personally, I haven't used facebook in almost a decade.
Is it really a surprise? Facebook started off as a site for college students. Then they slowly opened up to everyone. Then college students got older but stayed on facebook.
They went from that site for college students to coordinate events and talk shit with your friends (that you would never want your parents to find out about) to "that site my parents are on" and we're almost hitting the point of becoming "that site for seniors"
Kids will always want a way to communicate without their parents knowing. By it's very nature any site like it has a timer. Young kids use it, older people find it (or those younger people age out and become the older people), it dies. Usenet, mIRC, AOL Chat rooms, Xanga, Blogspot, Live Journal. Myspace. Facebook. Instagram. TikTok.
Facebook just happened to be around at the exact perfect time (and be funded by the CIA) for it to blow up and hit critical mass so that it's still around.
Personally, I haven't used facebook in almost a decade.