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Are Social Networks for Children?

Started by Nick O'Neill · 10 months ago

Fred Wilson seems to think so. According to him, “The blogging revolution is the adult social network whereas Facebook style social networking is for teens and college kids.” This is just a generalized assertion with no statistical backing. Do adults comprise the majorit ... Continue reading »

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  • Marc Dierens

    1 year ago

    Currently I am a heavy user, and log into Twitter, Facebook and other social media/software tools and sites at least once a day, and sometimes more than once a day. At work I am working on collaboration and social networking for the enterprise, so need to be up to date (although this seems impossible).

    Teen blogging is something that I have not encountered yet, I think the younger users are more on IM and MySpace.

    Cheers, Marc
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  • Vitak

    1 year ago

    Pew Internet does monitor the usage levels of both teen and adult bloggers, and their data show there is a teen blogging presence, albeit much smaller than the adult population. I believe most social networks are for the under 30s, and research shows more than half of 12-17 year olds have accounts with at least one social network.

    In my research on college students' Facebook use, I found the vast majority of respondents log into the site multiple times a day. Personally, I tend to keep Facebook and Twitter open in tabs all day so I can check for updates at my leisure, but I am kind of obsessive about it.
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