Comments on: Facebook & Mobile: Teens can’t live without em

By: Facebook Application Developers

Facebook Application Developers — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 14:11:52 +0000

Very good post. given you 5/5. :)

By: Facebook Developer

Facebook Developer — Wed, 12 May 2010 06:58:31 +0000

It is good news that people can live without mobile and face book.Many people used mobile phone and face book in daily life.very informative article sir.

By: Custom Facebook Applications

Custom Facebook Applications — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:14:34 +0000

I will be honest…I’m not into Facebook. It is really a confusing scenario for me because I was so addicted to myspace for so long.. and facebook has a more attractive design. Perhaps the initial adrenaline rush of discovering all my old friends has worn off. I certainly don’t find the widgets useful, knowing if I have the same top 5 favorite movies as the girl I sat next to in 7th grade algebra class does nothing for me.Half of the people who contact me on there have barely spoken to me in person, if ever… so why do I want to “take their quiz”? Am I using this thing wrong or something? I take your challenge Justin.. but unfortunately its not much of a challenge for me… I hardly ever check it anyway.
Please… someone.. give me a reason to love Facebook!

By: jasmine

jasmine — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:47:16 +0000

well i personaly hate that i dont want to be upducked and why does it mater to grown ups any how we try to stay away and u have letting go issues and i still think that we could live without it. and my bff ( best friend forever) said that too, so seresly most teens can not get upducted and i think we can all say that we need space. but then this is a web thing that makes us made about what is going on behind ower backs and that is why we need space from the nest

By: jillian

jillian — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:49:57 +0000

bebo is well better than myspace (which always breaks) and is much better than facebook. has gotta be said xx

By: Ross Dakin

Ross Dakin — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 09:37:00 +0000

Liz, it was a pleasure meeting you at this event. I wish our college panel could have been half as entertaining as the high school panel!

Many comments focus on Facebook. I believe Facebook will be great and enduring. Why? Because they are moving to a platform architecture. That means that people can develop "Facebook Applications" that users can "install" on their profile pages.

Why does that help Facebook? Because it's one more orthogonal dimension of user generation. First users provided content. Now users provide applications to host content. Next we will see users providing tools to create applications to host user generated content (sourceforge anyone?).

This is related to my biggest gripe with the iPhone: open it up! Allow third party applications to be installed and you open many doors to popularity.

Apple should take a hint form Intuit (makers of Quicken, Quickbooks, Turbotax, etc.) Intuit founder Scott Cook wrote, "My biggest surprise was discovering how customers will invent your business for you," with regard to being customer driven. I personally use Quickbooks to keep track of personal finances, LLC finances, and the rent and utilities payments that my housemates owe. This is possible because of Quicken's versatile, open nature. The point? Let your customers tell you what they want in a product, rather than telling them what a product will do for them. Imagine what people would invent for the iPhone if they were free to write applications for it. But I digress...

My takeaway from this event: 1) KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) 2) Open it up! 3) 18-24 4) Don't build another social network. Seriously. 5) Philanthropy can be market driven.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 24 May 2007 21:25:58 +0000

Thanks for all the nice replies

Shirish, I'm not sure how long we'll stay with facebook, but not by any fault of facebook's. Rather, I'd imagine that as we grow up our needs will change, from sharing information, photos, etc. on facebook to a place where we can connect for real-world purposes, like LinkedIn. As we move on, though, other users will step in to take our place. We may move on because our needs have changed, but whether or not the social networking sites themselves fail will be based on how they continue to work for a certain age group; unless, of course, facebook wants to grow up with us, which we certainly wouldn't mind!

and Liz, thank YOU for your article! It's great when adults try to get our views and see things the way we do, without demeaning us or our views. Us teens are certainly not afraid to speak up if you'd only ask; all we ask is some respect for the opinions you're asking for. I'm glad the panel went well, it certainly seems like it did. The only thing with this panel is that it's from silicon valley kids; not only are they all taken from the same area, it's a pretty tech-oriented area [I think]. It'd be really interesting to have a panel from all over; just, please, no more of those web surveys that try to be cool that send emails with subject lines like "TOTALLY RAD, A NEW SURVEY FOR DUDES ONLY". Now that certainly does not work. That's just asking for faked answers.

By: pwb

pwb — Thu, 24 May 2007 17:46:09 +0000

Robert Dewey, they said the opposite: "it would take a lot for them to change to a competitor".

By: Nick Hawkins

Nick Hawkins — Thu, 24 May 2007 15:41:34 +0000

I feel like an old man telling our interns how I saved $1200 one summer to buy 16mb of RAM and a 200MB hard drive when I was their age.

By: Werner Egipsy Souza

Werner Egipsy Souza — Thu, 24 May 2007 11:12:22 +0000

Talking from another geography, India, I would have to say that it's only now that I have started getting friends on Facebook... and that the current drug of choice here, is Orkut, because, for the same reason that Jonathan mentioned, everyone we know, is here!

;-)

Werner

By: Liz Gannes

Liz Gannes — Thu, 24 May 2007 07:43:51 +0000

Jonathan, thanks for your comment. I think it's pretty cool to see people like you and the panelists sharing their experiences in their own voices, rather than being treated like specimen in a lab. (I was worried about that happening with the set-up of the panel, but was happily surprised that it wasn't the case.)

gagan, now that is just silly. There are plenty of comments from both genders in the story.

seth, I think you might underestimate the age of our readers, but they're definitely welcome to comment here!

By: seth

seth — Thu, 24 May 2007 07:30:59 +0000

yawn. if you wanted to know what teenagers think about technology, you should have asked them here. sounds like you got some pretty mediocre insights.

By: gagan

gagan — Thu, 24 May 2007 06:46:43 +0000

@the first girl said she didn’t think services needed to be combined, relating a story about when she and a friend took 30 seconds to realize they were talking to each other on the phone and AIM at the same time.

@One girl told the audience, “I would be lost, helpless, and alone without the Internet. I don’t know how you people survived without it!”

Very funny.... lolzzz ...

@liz .. ru tryin to prove by this article that gals r too stupid to use this tech. ... u have listed all the funny(stupid) things said by gals only..

By: Miles

Miles — Thu, 24 May 2007 05:19:13 +0000

Great article, there needs to be more out there on kids and technology, instead of "myspace is the devil" on CNN, what about the positive side of things.

Good to see you moderating a panel of teens, I really enjoyed this read.

By: fo.unta.in

fo.unta.in — Thu, 24 May 2007 05:01:25 +0000

Facebook is probably the next Google. Remember ppl spend only 5 percent of their time online searching. the remaining time is goldmine for advertisers.

By: Steve Morsa

Steve Morsa — Thu, 24 May 2007 04:41:49 +0000

Groovy, man, groovy. ;-)