Baby Boomers Quitting Facebook

Who cares?

I can't believe I wasted time reading this.

In summary:

1. Facebook is for job-less (was the implication drop-out?) beatniks with nothing else to do.

2. 55-65 year olds are leaving a networking site that was designed for college students.

Top notch journalism.

My opinion is because people are finally realizing how self-indulgent this is. Who cares who's going to be late for school and they had a tired day at the office. It's called life, people. If you really think we're that interested in your comings and goings, you are way too self absorbed.

becouse its boring

It's those stupid applications. I am young & facebook annoys me. The interface is crowded & ugly. I actually prefer myspace, but people are less into social networking lately.

If it wasn't for facebook I would still be searching for my Sisters :0)

I was with facebook, I anm married and I got sick of getting e-mails saying look who has a crush on you. In my opion facebook is not safe

I joined because a friend invited me. I find the site to be childish and trivial and a complete waste of time. I see no point in 99% of the info put on the site.

Could it be that AOL is trying to convince people that someone is actually leaving Facebook. It does not appear to me that there is a generational issue or a mass exodus. AOL is evil.

I'm a baby boomer and some of the sites get me lost. They are hard to get around and I know you kids get it quicker than we do. Some of them are like a sex training camp. I'm not interested in that and it is thrown in your face, all the time. It's like, that is all that is on their brain. I'm not dead but I know what is important in life. Isn't there anything else going on in their lives? A lot of people would say I'm an ole' fogey. Maybe I am but I always say if it isn't broken, don't fix it. A lot of the younger generation tried to fix our generation. Well, big mistake! There's a lot of things, these days that is broken and some of it is the social sites. They need to be fixed. I want to be able to control my page. If I have children or my family near, I want them to be able to disagree with what they see. These companies make billions of dollars on people, like us. I said billions, not millions. Where does it get us? If I'm on a site, stuffing green backs into their pockets, I'd like some.....well.....I'd like a lot pushed my way. I'd like to be paid for everything I do. If I look at a video....PAY ME! If I open and send e-mail....PAY ME! If I do a survey, blog, make a comment, or play a game.....PAY ME! If YOU do these things on my site.....PAY YOU! They can afford it. You can enjoy what you do and it is made simple. Send me an e-mail and I'll let you know, it can happen for YOU. KSBaucum@gmail.com

or maybe they're quitting because facebook is so freaking hard to use.

OMG!! I'm in my 50's and just on Facebook a few months ago! If anyone thinks we CANNOT figure this thing out, you're crazy! I know how to get around FB and I actually figured out how to upload photos! If anything, it's that it seems kind of mindless and BORING to me! And, do I really need to get messages that ASHTON KUTCHER is trying to be my FRIEND???

I'll stay on FB for while----even though my 23-year old son is shocked that I can read his messages to his friends! I love that part of Facebook!!

You sound surprised there is a bad article on AOL. All I ever see is a bunch of regurgitated artitles written by a bunch of spammers in between selling our email adresses.

Its amazing, everyone goes to the end of the earth to protect there bank account's or paypal account's online entering password's no one will know but it's ok to meet friend's of friend's online who you dont even know!!!! How can you make friend's over a keyboard when you dont know them! Any network can be great fun but they get abused so quickly. i personally would be vary carefull.

steve m u.k england.

I always thought facebook was boring i like myspace better

Why does AOL always try to prove that Facebook sucks? Some people like it and some people don't. Get over it. -_-"

my bottom line with facebook is that as a babyboomer, i have very little time to spend online. myself and most people my age have extremely taxing jobs and responsibilites. it is not the norm to be online at work unless it is work. we use it as a tool to help up keep contact with very close family and friends. i dont think baby boomers have difficulty using facebook--its very easy and were kinda smart......

I'm 54 and very tech savvy. I guarantee that boomers aren't leaving because they can't figure out how to use Facebook. I don't want to speak for others, but Facebook seems rather pointless. It seems the under-25 crowd believes that the world cares what they're doing every minute of every day. I don't flatter myself that I have anything to say that's all that interesting--but if I do write something, at least everything will be spelled correctly, which is more than I can say about much of what I see on Facebook, Yahoo Answers, and any other venue where these kids share the trivial details of their lives.

It's probably because the older folks are much wiser and they realize that Facebook and Myspace are ultimately run by the Department of Defense and CIA. They data-base and analize all of the users personal information. The Government wants to know every single detail about every individuals personal life. Sorry f**ks! Please wake up AMERICA, before it's to late. ;(

How do you quit it and get your name taken off .. I tried dut I couldn't do it ...