Facebook itself is no longer an adolescent. At 8, it's getting long in the tooth for a social network. And for some teens, the novelty has worn off.
"Facebook is just not the big fad anymore," said Kim Franklin, a 15-year-old from Gaithersburg, Md., who does not have a Facebook account and prefers social media site Tumblr. "It was like everybody was constantly on there, but now not so much."
Franklin said her 13-year-old sister Nicole hasn't signed up for a Facebook account either.
Meanwhile, Laura Franklin, the girls' 37-year-old mother, always has Facebook open on her computer while working on her parenting blog, Better in Bulk. That, she said, has led her teen daughters to dub Facebook a "mom thing."
Jessica Guynn and Ryan Faughnder of the LA Times has the story: Link
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http://www.google.com/trends/?q=facebook,+twitter,+tumblr&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
And so I became a FaceBook user.
Years later 'Join this game' and 'Hey, I took my dog for a walk!' or some political rant seem abound on my page. I'm down to checking it once a quarter for no apparent reason.
Off to shoo kids off my lawn and yell at a cloud!
it's not a lambo but it will get you to the post office.
tumblr, twitter, and other sites are more ego driven in their social networking capacity.
(also buzzbo has made a good point with his non-anecdotal evidence)