MySpace is dead and buried, and back to the status it was in the 1990s, and AOL is just...so not cool anymore, but I can see that Facebook is starting to have a downfall. It is a depressing site and I am at the original target age of Facebook; college students and now I am finding out it is turning stupid. There has been signs that Facebook has been having a downfall.
Facebook was good in high school when you have friends, but when your friends leave, it gets more and more depressing. Now Facebook has turned into this stodgy adult site that has more baby photos of cohabitated people mistakes than actually some good pictures with your friends.
I can see the first downfall when the Farmvilles and the Mafia Wars were starting to come out in late 2009 - that is when people are worried more about "virtual agriculture" which is probably propaganda for "real agriculture" that is really needed in this country. Then we have the ability to like everything on the internet and certain people had took advantage of it and annoyed people with their political and religious propanganda.
I can't put my finger on it, but it looks like Facebook has attracted more adults than teenagers. My theory is that many of the pioneers of Facebook who are in college are starting to get to be in their 30s and 40s, which is the stodgy adult age and they also started to rope in their relatives. Now it is every adult on the internet is on Facebook and it seems like you are seeing a lot of 45-50 year olds on Facebook. A lot of them are overprotecting family members and they are 3rd or 4th cousins that want to suck on you worse than your parents. This is pretty embarrasing and it seems like whenever you make progress, you have your 3rd cousin like about some thing that shows that you are growing up. It is good to have praise for growing up but it doesa get embarrassing. I would like to have more support from peers, not older people.
Unless my peers are in their own world and they are not interested in me "growing up" - they probably want me to do some frat boy thing or something like that. Getting a job is too "adult" and "mature", and it looks like it's pretty hard to grow up.
The advertisements is another thing that has been causing a problem - Facebook has starting to have more advertisement than to see what your friends are up to. Maybe it is the idea that I don't have many friends.
That's the bad thing about Facebook and it seems to be happening to me - adults are caring for me more than my peers unless I might be too conservative for my peers or they don't know me that well, or they simply don't care for me. It looks like I am in this transitional time and I hope someone will care for me.
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