Teens abandoning Facebook; old people signing up

[Que enspastic]

3. Instagram which all the teens seem to flocking to is still owned by FB

In order for Facebook to teeter you need something big to come along that makes Instagram redundant in the teen segment.

 

[RockHard]

3. Instagram which all the teens seem to flocking to is still owned by FB

In order for Facebook to teeter you need something big to come along that makes Instagram redundant in the teen segment.

Yeah, so now you have Vine. Tumblr is also really big in the teen segment, though I think it lost some of its cool when Yahoo bought them. Back in the day, MySpace was the shit, but aside from the technical problems, parents got wise to MySpace. Before that there was Friendster, then hotornot. I don't think it's even a technical thing, I think that the kids just move around to stay ahead of their parents.

RioNomad's story reminds me of a friend who got a divorce because his wife cheated on him, and his ex-mother-in-law liked the post where her relationship status changed. The funny thing is the lady was really pissed at her daughter for fucking around on her husband... talk about clueless.

 

[Tuthmosis]

It was pretty much a stalker's paradise back then which is in stark contrast to how worried everyone these days is over FB privacy.

That'd be a bomb-ass song.

 

[puckerman]

I wonder if the so-called Steubenville rape case had anything to do with teens changing their social media habits. There are definitely less people on Facebook now, especially among the under-25 crowd.

 

[WestCoast]

(Delete).

 

[Excelsior]

All those pics Athlone post in the 10 thread, best believe Mama Athlone is gonna have something to say about it.

My mom knows all about the 10 thread. She knows I post dozens of photos a day of attractive and often scantily clad (or entirely unclad) women on this forum (not just in the 10 thread, but also the Black Hotness thread). She knows about the funny pictures I post in the Funny/Cool Pics and Funny Animal Pic threads as well (I send a lot of those to her on facebook - that's the main medium through which we communicate when I'm away at school aside from the occasional phone convo). She knows I write for ROK, and she knows my username here and there.

I don't hide a lot from my mom. Unlike most kids, I'm fortunate not to really have to. My mother is socially conservative in many ways (ex: doesn't drink, anti-abortion, anti-feminist), but raised me in a fairly liberal manner. I can be totally open with her and, generally, she puts a lot of faith in me not to abuse my freedom and go off track. I like to think I've rewarded her faith well as I've grown older.

Your point still stands, though. 99% of dudes would be in trouble with their mothers for doing what I do. Some of my other relatives would also likely be less cool with things (ex: I know my Grandparents wouldn't be that chill about it).

 

[Tuthmosis]

My mom knows all about the 10 thread. She knows I post dozens of photos a day of attractive and often scantily clad (or entirely unclad) women on this forum (not just in the 10 thread, but also the Black Hotness thread). She knows about the funny pictures I post in the Funny/Cool Pics and Funny Animal Pic threads as well (I send a lot of those to her on facebook - that's the main medium through which we communicate when I'm away at school aside from the occasional phone convo). She knows I write for ROK, and she knows my username here and there.

I don't hide a lot from my mom. Unlike most kids, I'm fortunate not to really have to. My mother is socially conservative in many ways (ex: doesn't drink, anti-abortion, anti-feminist), but raised me in a fairly liberal manner. I can be totally open with her and, generally, she puts a lot of faith in me not to abuse my freedom and go off track. I like to think I've rewarded her faith well as I've grown older.

Your point still stands, though. 99% of dudes would be in trouble with their mothers for doing what I do. Some of my other relatives would also likely be less cool with things (ex: I know my Grandparents wouldn't be that chill about it).

Athlone's mom sounds like the straight-up bomb. I imagine her like this--spitting red-pill wisdom and prognosticating the future--with a Jamaican accent.

Skip to @0:56 and see to how she obliterates the hamster on the short-haired fatty. Athlone makes an appearance @1:51. He's thinking about moving.

 

[Excelsior]

Athlone's mom sounds like the straight-up bomb. I imagine her like this--spitting red-pill wisdom and prognosticating the future--with a Jamaican accent.

Recently she gave me a long speech about how ridiculous marital rape laws were, explaining that though married women may not always be in the mood men "have needs" and a wife needs to consider it her duty to service them. She said I needed to find a woman to marry who understood this. We've had this conversation more than once.

She's been warning me about false rape accusations since I was old enough to know what an erection was. Grandmother does the same thing - they both insist I need to go back to the islands to find a woman who won't throw me in jail for no reason or do some otherwise shady shit we tend to associate with feminism (they have little good to say about western feminists). This is another conversation I have all the time with them - "leave these American girls alone, go find a good Caribbean girl!" My grandmother is especially paranoid about it, you'd think she was an MRA.

It's an interesting family dynamic. It makes dialogue with haters on ROK/elsewhere quite interesting since the first thing they usually do is imply that my mother "would be ashamed". They have no idea.

 

[Tuthmosis]

Recently she gave me a long speech about how ridiculous marital rape laws were, explaining that though married women may not always be in the mood men "have needs" and a wife needs to consider it her duty to service them. She said I needed to find a woman to marry who understood this. We've had this conversation more than once.

Truth be told, my mother isn't much different. She's always lamenting how women are so easy these days, how they don't know how to take care of a man or raise children, and warning me to be careful around them. We always talk about the scarcity of quality women, which invariably makes her bring up an ex-girlfriend of mine she particularly liked.

This kind schooling used to be standard practice. The old women--who are honest--can see the writing on the wall and know all of the tricks these bitches are pulling.

 

[username]

I doubt there is going to be a Facebook replacement. It's like when Standard Oil broke up into over a dozen companies. This is how it will probably go with social networking.

I agree, it seems like this is the natural path for things to progress. Facebook to me and now many others is just a fancy email system and photo gallery. When I want to email my uncle who I never talk to about something I head to Facebook. Other than that and occasionally looking at a photo someone posted there really is no use for me anymore.

This is the path of every "cool thing" that has ever existed. Teens/college aged people discover/make something cool, it remains cool for a few years and then their parents show up and make it uncool or something better comes along.

What's great is that means there are opportunities to create the next cool things. A potential next cool thing will be like a private social network where friends determine who exist within that network. Exclusivity = cool.

 

[Handsome Creepy Eel]

It's an interesting family dynamic. It makes dialogue with haters on ROK/elsewhere quite interesting since the first thing they usually do is imply that my mother "would be ashamed". They have no idea.

Now that you've demolished their claims that you are somehow in conflict with your mother, they'll do a 180-degree turn and start claiming that "you're only this way because your family is bigoted" or that "you have an Oedipus complex". There's no end with these people.

 

[funkyzeit]

I use facebook only to talk with friends and to set up dates with girls who either couldn't give me their numbers in front of everybody when we met or are unable to be frequent on any other mean of communication.

If you are a dude there are some facebook rules if you want to maintain your alphaness:
-don't be online on chat at all time
-don't post every single shit you see, hear, feel. don't check in at every single place you go. reduce your posts to twice a week or less
-try to make your posts stand out (post pictures only when you're doing something interesting with that interesting being visible, don't be a guy who just takes a selfie)
-try as much as possible to have pro photos of you on your profile, nothing says "quality man" online as a high quality photo of him. drop $50 bucks on a photoshoot or drop $300 for entry level dslr that will do the trick more than good after you master the basics.

 

[Nonpareil]

As someone who only had Facebook because all of his friends did, the writing on the wall about its (upcoming) demise has been there for a few years.


- Your parents and family can add you, as a way to keep tabs on you. Not only that, but old people (as has been highlighted several times in this thread) tend not to have any Facebook etiquette (I actually deleted my own mother from Facebook because she kept posting on my wall telling me to call her - get the fuck out, email, PM or, I don't know...call me and leave a message? I don't need chicks seeing a wall post from my mom).

- Everyone has at least one friend who always blows up your spot by tagging you in bad pictures or posting about 'what you did last night'. I hope none of you are that friend.

- Girls you've been banging for 3-4 months leaning on you to 'update your relationship status'.

- People trying hard to make their lives look as interesting and cool as possible. Sure, there are ways to 'alpha up' your profile to maximize the potential amount of pussy you can get from it, but is it really worth it? I think the days of the 'Facebook player' have been over for 3-4 years.

- Everyone wanting you to play stupid games like Farmville, Candy Crush and Bejeweled. Wasn't unusual to get 5-10 requests per day for this shit.

- Seeing people you knew in high school posting pictures...of them doing the same things, with the same people, of the things they did in high school. Depressing.

- Prospective employers searching your profile for any 'questionable conduct'. When you want to start paying me for what I do when I'm not at work, then I'll do what you want me to do when I'm not at work.

- Fake celebrity pages, pages for companies, the apps themselves...increased corporate atmosphere.

- Scandals like the NSA information harvest making people wary.

- Biggest of all; the fact that everything cool does tend to have a shelf life, before moving on into obsolescence or being replaced by the next new thing. Everything stops being cool eventually; and usually the point of this happening is when the over-50 crowd gets into it (for example, Green Day was no longer cool after I learned that both my mother and my aunt had copies of American Idiot - also everything they've done since blows, but there was something funny about my mom liking a band that she hated when I was 14 and blasting Insomniac in my room).


Facebook certainly was cool once; I remember back around 06-07, when it was perfectly fine to add that hottie from class, even if you didn't know her well, and use the data there to run the appropriate game and make your own bounces ('Oh...we're both going to see that band at that pub on Wednesday'). Now, though? With your parents, your friends and the government watching for your every status update? Facebook is officially 'corporate' now, and not many young people find corporate culture to be cool.

 

[rhino]

I never understood why men didn't embrace dual (multiple) FB accounts. One for your peers, one for your family/old people. Internet is a perfect medium to juggle multiple identities, so it really speaks of lack of our own imagination if we use one account for all purposes. You don't wear same clothes in school as you do in church, so why do it on FB?

Many of you don't realize how popular FB is in other parts of the world. In vast majority of the countries it is still only social network.

Sure the honeymoon period is over and the malaise is setting in, but once upon a time a properly maintained FB profile in a hands of a skilled storyteller/ image maker would have/could have increase your attraction level a thousand fold.

Instagram is owned by FB, look for them to fuck that up shortly as well.

 

[amity]

I'm more direct on Facebook then I was in my blue pill days and this has had an interesting effect. Some guys have tried (unsuccessfully) to subtly criticise me, but other guys really like me telling it like it is, equally some women like the realtalk, but some (particularly the more Westernised brainwashed of my female friends) have reacted badly and sometimes try to call me out, it's almost disturbing to witness, they're so soaked in the politically correct 'female narrative' of Western society
Interestingly though, the woman who I think I have pissed off the most is a german ex of mine who has some 'gender studies' background and who is full of and I mean absolutely full of leftist claptrap, she's quite the hypocrite too.
Thing is I was busting my balls to impress the woman for so long and now I could give a fuck, but I'm past the point of caring what she thinks of me, she sure as hell ain't worth it

 

[Handsome Creepy Eel]

I never understood why men didn't embrace dual (multiple) FB accounts.

Wouldn't Facebook ban you upon discovering that these accounts share an IP address?

 

[Truth Teller]

Facebook is officially 'corporate' now, and not many young people find corporate culture to be cool.

Unless it involves buying the latest Apple product or being somehow involved with Apple.

 

[Hotwheels]

Facebook is officially 'corporate' now, and not many young people find corporate culture to be cool.

Unless it involves buying the latest Apple product or being somehow involved with Apple.

Something else even cooler will come along and Apple will implode as well.

The hot thing never stays hot forever.

 

[Suits]

Maybe there is a market for a social network site that promises to never let people join who don't have a college email address.

Facebook got its start this way and it was still growing. It would have continued to grow at a healthy rate because there are new college students enrolling every year and the graduated ones would take a while to get old enough to be uncool.

I think that time should have been invested into finding clean ways to sell advertising space on Facebook, rather than enabling Farmville applets.

If someone creates that again, but keeps it just for an exclusive crowd (with exception, college students and graduates represent the above average part of society), it could be very cool.

Unfortunately, the goal will always be money in the end, not cool.

 

[travolta]

I see more older people on FB as good thing. Older people are easier to sell to and are less tech savvy. Easier money for me. If it weren't for Facebook I would be poor.