Baby Boomers Quitting Facebook

I quit going because it's so annoying to see those STUPID tests. My name should really be...Mercedes or I'm 95% Beautiful or Ranch style homes fit my personality. blah blah blah. I really hate the - be my top girl requests. Dumb Stuff.

Social networking is beyond stupid

As a 60 something, I love Facebook because it has changed the way I interact with my friends, children and political parties. I especially appreciate the topical international news, music updates and instant photo/utube updates that friends post that I otherwise might have missed...and they didn't ask me or my "boomer" friends...although most of my friends are in the 20 - 30 age group.

95% of my communication is now fb, twiter, etc., and often I have no voicemail in a day...interesting.

Parents in the declining age group do not have to resort to facebook to keep tabs on their college age children, since they began home from college two months ago.

I never even entertained the thought of using Facebook or MySpace. They're for kids. Boomers are grownups. A new social-networking site for BBs is supposed to be starting up very shortly. I won't join that one either. I'm not Internet-sociable.

Hey #3 Arb, you one of them college students? --snicker-- Voc, I'll bet. :-) For your enlightment, a site can't keep anyone out based on age, if it's a public domaine. The "gold oldies," as you so quaintly called them, are smart enough to TRY anything, and then smart enough to be bored by the inane blather and stupid tests that passes for communication on Facebook. The problem is that we "gold oldies" allow people like you in as friends, and then have to watch the site fill up with things like "I want a beer," or "I got 98% on the 'Which Munchkin are you like' test!!" --shiver-- You're welcome to it, Arb. You fit right in. hahahaha

Facebook forces you to join to find other members. I joined because I received an invitation from my kids; however, I stopped using it because it's not set up for anything I want to do. I get on every couple of months to ensure my children don't have anything negative on their sites. In addition, I kept getting messages from scam artists and pervs. Facebook also has a very bad rep among legitimate businesses. It should have stayed as it was--for college students. Facebook forced people who have no use for it to join. Blame Facebook.

it's about time, too. it's kinda creepy being added by your dad's friends on facebook and having to explain to your high school friends who the old people adding you are. o_O I mean, come ON, give us teens some internet privacy, PLEASE!

I am in the "generation Y" age range, but I left facebook a few months ago. I always thought it was obnoxious. I don't need to know every detail of the lives of all my friends and acquaintances. I've deactivated my profile before, but I think this time it will be permanent.

does facebook really infect your computer when you sign on?
this thing keeps popping up that says it's trying to scan my computer,
but my sister told me it was just trying to hack it. it won't let me click out of the screen whenever it comes up, so i have to shut down my computer by the button on the tower and restart it that way.

but is that really what's happening?

Good! Bye bye, fare thee well, don't let the door hit you.

Now, if we can just get rid of your little retarded-ass ADHD children, get them back to Myspace or bebo or something like that, maybe facebook will return to its prior glory. With no 12 year-olds dolled up like freaking porn stars, and with no idiotic second step-cousin wanting to add you to his friends list when you haven't even thought about him in ten years.

Apps and quizzes and all the crap you idiots are complaining about came RIGHT THROUGH THE DOOR WITH YOU. So did the viruses I've never caught but that you all seem to struggle with. Before facebook became available to any jerkoff smart enough to create an email account, it was a very useful networking tool for college students. It was respectable, and you would be amazed at how "mature" it seemed with nothing but A) a pic (it used to just be ONE pic per friend) on a list of friends that comprise your real-life network, and B) groups and walls to message those friends. You complain about the lack of civility and how it has become a new myspace; well you all are to blame for that. And now you realize why we complained and moaned so much, and didn't want facebook available to you or your children, nor to your creepy 43 year old molester cousin, who now stalks your children on fb as we speak.

Please keep in mind (and people who used it before will tell you this) that the "14 year-old mentality" came with all the 14 year-olds. When it was only used by college students, it was so blissfully free from the trash that has ruined it now.

Do you want to know why boomers are rushing away from facebook as quickly as they rushed toward it? Because they are a generation of lemmings, so it is in their very nature. This is the generation that raised people my age saying, "If Tommy jumped off a bridge, would you?" Well, you boomers have been jumping off bridges since you were born. Not since I was born (that's clear), but since you were born. You bought into "free love," then disco, then cocaine, then became corporate cutthroat YUPPIES, then you found Jesus and had kids and moved to the suburbs, and after all that contradiction and hypocrisy you think your opinion means anything to any of us?

And now all your friends are telling you, "Oh you have to have a facebook account because I have one and so does Betty Lou from Sunday School, and my daughter has one and OH! what if she's doing something I can't sink my fat fingers into..." and then you get in there and don't understand what you're doing.

It's like your old hipster Bob Dylan used to say. The times they are a-changin'. Get out of the road if you can't lend your hand. You are like those old granny drivers you always complain about - the world is flying by you at 100 mph and you need to just crawl back to your television. It babysat you through your life, and now it can sing you to sleep with idiotic reality television shows much more suited to your logistic than all this scary and confusing social networking stuff.

You people don't understand anything about computers or internet communication. I'm amazed you can figure out how to log in to forums and leave your petty little gripes about technology you know nothing about because you boomers sure as **** can't figure out such simple things at your jobs!

When the internet was young, you turned it into a stockmarket buzzword, into a commodity "tech boom" and ruined its potential. P2P was an innovative and visionary method poised to revolutionize human communication, making art and their art available to the masses without the need for billions of dollars wasted on advertising and consumerist crap. You people turned it into a question of property - even having the gall to call it "piracy" - and you turned into the the very throwaway styrofoam system it was poised to undermine. And now we have something else, and you want to bring your bumbling hands into it then have the nerve to complain to us, to call *us* lazy or shallow. LOL.

You are morons - the same morons who work with me everyday and ask me to show them how to do every single thing that you are supposed to be paid to do. And now, you want us to show you why facebook is useful or important?!

Forget it. Just leave it alone. It is clearly not for you, so why do you feel this overwhelming need to be a part of it just because you hear it mentioned on the 10 O'Clock news? It's good that you go on to buy your little used overpriced porcelain junk from E-bay, and play all those nifty computer games that are the real source of all your PC infections. Go, we don't WANT YOU! (and never did in the first place. Do a search sometime for the number of "Don't Change Facebook" groups.)

Ta ta, and keep this in mind next time the news/your braindead peers tell you there's some new cliff you have to race over the edge of.

(You might think I'm just an angry, lonely little person, but believe me, I talk to people my age a lot and MANY, MANY of us feel this way...)