Stats from Inside Facebook:
In the last 60 days alone, the number of people over 35 has nearly doubled.
The fastest growing demographic on Facebook is still women over 55.
Over 4 million more US women 35-44 and nearly 3 million more US men 35-44 used Facebook in March 2009 compared to September 2008.
The majority of US Facebook users are now over 25."
I guess I'm one of the lucky ones who doesn't have older family members on it. It's not like you can reject their friend requests.
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- Mista_G
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That's all well and good, but would you accept a friend request from your parents?
Personally, I don't think i would, there's stuff on Facebook that just ain't suitable for parental viewing.
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Both my parents are one facebook. I have to monitor what I say which gets annoying but I can't really reject there friend requests.
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- super_ally
- 8 months ago
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Both my parents are on massively Limited Profile for me - they can't see my wall and have only got access to certain photographs. Easy peasy. As long as I play a few games of online Scrabble with them, they're pretty happy...
Why should social networking be restricted to certain age groups anyway? We've got a top-heavy population now because of the baby-boomers reaching their 60s. They have the time to piss about on the web.
Additionally, making a whole issue about it is ageist - our society is very youth-focused, whereas equal weight should be given to the wisdom and life experience of the older generations - teenagers know bugger all about life (I think the teenage pregnancy rates in this country are a case in point) and it would be good to actually consult those who have a bit of life experience as opposed to just shoving them to the corners of society and assuming they're all doolally and past it, when the majority of them are still compus mentus.
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- cyberpixie
- 8 months ago
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I set my mum to my private profile.
There are some photos she should not see.
