Mark Zuckerberg is a Harvard graduate who originally created Facebook with the intent that it would be a social networking site for students. Times have changed, and recent studies show that this isn’t truly the case. Statistics show that non-student adults and parents have found a way to sneak themselves into what once was a closed- off online social network. According to the facebook demographic and statistics report, There has been a staggering increase in the number of 55+ users- with total growth of 513% in the last six months alone.
The older generation has flooded facebook’s social scene. Facebook has recently experienced a decline in high school and college users. According to the Facebook-demographic and statistic report, There are 16.5% less high school users, and 21.7% less college users. It’s believed that parents joining faceook have alienated the younger facebook users.
I find that these statistics are incredibly interesting because they demonstrate a cultural shift on facebook. When I use my neocortex I realize that the younger generation is becoming sick and tired of being monitored and analyzed. I feel that by not having a facebook for personal use allows me to be less media judging. I also don’t want to get caught in any dumb photos that my future employer might be looking at. Facebooks 400 million active users upload about 3 billion photos to the site each month. In other words it seems that the Internets personal shift has exposed human nature in ways that has never been seen before.
Evidence shows that Facebook has managed to reach the top of the social world but has proven to have some grey areas that have yet to be brought in to focus. It went from being a way for students to communicate to a corporate marketing target, a parental concern and an overload of personal useless information. Twitter, Blogger, Myspace and Tumbler have risen to be competitors and show that facebook doesn’t hold a permanent space in the social networking world.
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