I'm 13 and None of My Friends Use Facebook

Re:I'm 13 and None of My Friends Use Facebook by coldcode on Sunday August 11, 2013 @06:44PM (#6196639)

Exactly, its like saying teenagers don't use email. Everyone they care about is close by, you want to keep in close contact. Once you get past college many of your friends are very distant and you need slow asynchronous methods to keep in touch. Both my age friends from college and the next generation I met volunteering at a local university use Facebook for that exact reason.

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Re:I'm 13 and None of My Friends Use Facebook by hnriot on Sunday August 11, 2013 @07:35PM (#6196833)

Teenagers don't use email. They use iMessage.

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Re:I'm 13 and None of My Friends Use Facebook by andybak on Sunday August 11, 2013 @07:45PM (#6196883)

So no-one in the 13-18 age bracket owns anything other than iOS devices?

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Re:I'm 13 and None of My Friends Use Facebook by kunai on Sunday August 11, 2013 @08:01PM (#6196941)

I'm fifteen and nearly all of the time use PGP-encrypted IM/email to communicate.

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Re:I'm 13 and None of My Friends Use Facebook by login1234 on Sunday August 11, 2013 @08:54PM (#6197080)

calling bs on that right now

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Re:I'm 13 and None of My Friends Use Facebook by mikehotel on Sunday August 11, 2013 @10:26PM (#6197339)

I believe kunai but agree that use of encryption in messaging is very atypical, regardless of age.

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Re:I'm 13 and None of My Friends Use Facebook by kunai on Monday August 12, 2013 @09:54AM (#6199163)

I'd say that's mostly due to outside use. If your friends don't care about encryption, you would never use it. Since I have an extremely small social circle, I can afford to use encryption because I can actually convince people to use it.

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Re:I'm 13 and None of My Friends Use Facebook by freshyill on Sunday August 11, 2013 @07:56PM (#6196925)

iMessage is free. It works on Macs, iPhones, iPods and iPads.

I don't know what the usage stats are like, but those factors are probably worth a lot to teenagers who either have to pay their own phone bills, or have to convince their parents to do it.

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Re:I'm 13 and None of My Friends Use Facebook by superuser2 on Sunday August 11, 2013 @08:08PM (#6196958)

In my experience we send "email" type communication almost exclusively by Facebook messaging.

I have never in my life written or received an email from someone in my age bracket intended to communicate. When my classmates and I use email, it is to share attachments or to communicate with adults.

iMessage is just slightly nicer SMS. Very common in Apple-heavy social groups and not that useful in others.

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Re:I'm 13 and None of My Friends Use Facebook by sib on Sunday August 11, 2013 @07:56PM (#6196918)

I have a 13-year-old daughter. She and all of her friends use email. Also iMessage ad WhatsApp. And they pretty much all have Facebook profiles as well.

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