Think before you tweet ...

[BrandNewGuy]

"Professor Daniel Miller of University College London, one of the researchers working on the project, said in a blog post: ?Mostly they feel embarrassed even to be associated with it.

?This year marked the start of what looks likely to be a sustained decline of what had been the most pervasive of all social networking sites. Young people are turning away in their droves and adopting other social networks instead, while the worst people of all, their parents, continue to use the service.""

Good. I find Facebook a very useful way of keeping in touch with friends. The last thing I want is a bunch of teenagers getting hysterical, suicidal or just plain dumb all over my feed. I say let 'em bugger off.

[LadyDeliah]

My kids and their friends are all into Instagram and most people they know use WhatsApp.

Quite a few seem to be into Kik and WeChat too.

Facebook messenger is pants in comparison and I am an old fogey who has just gone back onto Facebook, purely to keep in touch with my family and close freinds, so seems the Torygraph is on point on this one.

[red devil]

I use WhatsApp for Android user friends, in lieu of iMessage...get with it BNG ;-) http://www.whatsapp.com/

[northlondoner]

Yeah wattsapp is really good for keeping in touch .

Did viber die the death ?

[Otta]

I very occasionally use WhatsApp for a couple if mates. Necer use the messenger on Facebook and think it's crap. But enjoy Facebook for keeping up.

[????]

The last place teenagers were all over and grown ups avoided was My Space...and we all know what happened with that.

We have an ageing population in the west with the highest share of wealth, I suspect the fact that a few spotty hormonal selfie obsessed teenagers don't think it's cool bothers Zuckenberg Zilch. Are you back Lady D? Did you miss us all?

I like Facebook for the fact that I vaguely keep up with old friends/ and remoter family that i just wouldn't without, Plus face-stalking a few exes is always fun.

I am never contraversial and avoid politics/religon etc on there.

[StraferJack]

moooooostly

[northlondoner]

???? Wrote:

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> The last place teenagers were all over and grown

> ups avoided was My Space...and we all know what

> happened with that.

>

> We have an ageing population in the west with

> the highest share of wealth, I suspect the fact

> that a few spotty hormonal selfie obsessed

> teenagers don't think it's cool bothers Zuckenberg

> Zilch. Are you back Lady D? Did you miss us all?

>

> I like Facebook for the fact that I vaguely keep

> up with old friends/ and remoter family that i

> just wouldn't without, Plus face-stalking a few

> exes is always fun.

>

> I am never contraversial and avoid

> politics/religon etc on there.

For me if I'm interested in keeping up

with someone , i will

do it via wattsapp etc . Very few of my FB friends are actual friends.

But yes the virtual stalking possibilities are a plus !

[LadyDeliah]

Yes and yes course Quids :-)

[maxxi]

northlondoner Wrote:

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> Yeah wattsapp is really good for keeping in touch

> .

> Did viber die the death ?

The last person to recommend viber to me was my dentist - so maybe...

I use FB for (mostly distant yet extant) friends/family and don't have any FB friends that I have never personally met - just don't go in for that side of it ("I have 6,000 FB friends!! etc.").

Find the whole 'Friend or Offend' thing - invites from those you don't want to keep up with OR snub - tricky sometimes.

[unlurked]

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> Putting the Farcebook/Twit debate aside. The fact

> is that if that is what she wrote she is a fecking

> stupid ignorant racist cow and deserves to be

> sacked.

Completly agree

[Kailyn]

Considering her job this does make me think that she was hacked, whatever, she should have been given a cghance to explain herself and apologise. It's in interesting debate though, who decides what is and isn't appropriate? We all know that what she said was unacceptable but what about freedom of speech?

I use twitter for networking and facebook for more personal stuff, I wouldn't be 'friends' with someone n fb unless I knew them in real life. And people should remember that their children are like dreams: fascinating to themselves but crashingly dull to everyone else :)

[????]

..and whilst we are on it, do you know how interested I am in seeing what you're just about to eat in a restaurant? Yup, NOT A-FOOKING-TALL

[Kailyn]

It always amazes me the things people post. They seem to go straight to facebook as soon as someone dies, that's just awful.

[StraferJack]

You've seen the RIP thread on here then?

[northlondoner]

FB is a product of our accursed solipsistic age.

[altessefitness]

I was once called an idiot on twitter for my views on the Carl Froch & George Groves boxing match lol.

On a serious note we are held accountable for the things we say, especially when our views have the capacity to create division and potentially create enmity between groups of people. I had no idea about this incident until now. Has there been any further development in this case? An explanation maybe?

[numbers]

I love love love twitter. I like Facebook. Each for very different reasons.

[Sue]

Kailyn Wrote:

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> It always amazes me the things people post. They

> seem to go straight to facebook as soon as someone

> dies, that's just awful.

xxxxxx

I recently found out about a tragic (51 year old) Christmas Eve death via Facebook.

My initial reaction too was to find it strange that someone would choose to let people know about it in that way, but then on reflection I thought that everybody deals with things differently.

In this case the bereaved person apparently gained a lot of comfort from people's posts of condolences. And Facebook is probably the easiest way to let friends know, especially if you have a lot of friends (real friends I mean, not "Facebook only friends").

Though half past one in the morning on Boxing Day wouldn't have been my personal chosen time to do it ......

[paulipedia]

The thing about Twitter and Facebook is they are only as interesting as the person using them

[unlurked]

I can't think of a profession that isn't open to abuse if you hold extreme racist views . .

[Alan Medic]

A 'friend' of mine (ex work colleague) posted two pictures of herself on FB on NYE. She asked which dress should she wear out? She had her hair arranged differently in each too. I decided to impart my view about the dress and the hair. This opinion soon got two 'likes' from her multitude of 'friends'. I was somewhat surprised to find she had hidden my post soon after.Should I unfriend her?

[????]

I've found twitter a bit more useful this Christmas as I've been able to tweet West Ham regularly asking them if they've sacked our useless twat of a manager.I've found this vaguely comforting. Still awaiting any response.....either to me personnally or him being sacked.

[Sue]

Alan Medic Wrote:

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> A 'friend' of mine (ex work colleague) posted two

> pictures of herself on FB on NYE. She asked which

> dress should she wear out? She had her hair

> arranged differently in each too. I decided to

> impart my view about the dress and the hair. This

> opinion soon got two 'likes' from her multitude of

> 'friends'. I was somewhat surprised to find she

> had hidden my post soon after.Should I unfriend

> her?

xxxxx

:))

[northlondoner]

Alan : what exactly did you say ? Post here please !!