Germany’s great tuition fees U-turn

Re:Germany’s great tuition fees U-turn by Quanttek on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @05:32PM (#8397896)

> No. Most Germans don't even care for FB (or twitter). Or they use it with a limited purpose. They think it's silly.

Not really, atleast from my experiences. Almost the complete youth & young adults atleast use Facebook and a considerable amount Twitter (more Twitter user, the older they get). Older adults and eldery only use FB/Twitter partially (I'd say 20%) and realtively inactive

Though, yes, in Germany - on average - Facebook & Twitter are less used, mostly because of privacy reasons

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Germany’s great tuition fees U-turn by thejdude on Thursday October 02, 2014 @02:02AM (#8399589)

IME very many German people are on FB (but yes, many also aren't, because they don't care and have their circle of offline friends). Twitter, almost nobody.

Among younger (20-30) Germans, I think almost everybody is on FB (and even more are on What's App).

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Germany’s great tuition fees U-turn by raverbashing on Thursday October 02, 2014 @08:38AM (#8400476)

Being on FB (usually with a false name) does not mean that they would have created it as it is

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Germany’s great tuition fees U-turn by thejdude on Saturday October 04, 2014 @03:50PM (#8410431)

I never said they would.

But for a while Germany had StudiVZ and MeinVZ. After a while FB became more popular, people with some international friends joined at first, and after a while everyone else did and the other networks basically starved. It was sad to watch, especially since many (local) groups there and parts of the UI were IMHO much nicer than what's on FB today.

[ Parent | on HN ]