I will say this : like heatray, I had an identical theory / attitude about fb before July. I still agree, but now found another use/purpose for it: the one-fingered broadcast communication tool for the one-handed, stay at home mom. It has become a powerful tool, unexpectedly.
You know who is most active on my feed? Other moms, with a smartphone lifeline. At work on the computer, fb was a boredom distraction toy, a poisonous and lonely one. Now, it has become a speedy help hotline to reach other parents...or give proof of my own existence, outside the void of screamy, milky, isolated chaos.
It turns out, high school & even college students aren't fb's demographic anymore : middle aged women are. It is still annoying, yet I get the appeal now, from a different angle.
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Date: 2013-09-13 10:46 am (UTC)You know who is most active on my feed? Other moms, with a smartphone lifeline. At work on the computer, fb was a boredom distraction toy, a poisonous and lonely one. Now, it has become a speedy help hotline to reach other parents...or give proof of my own existence, outside the void of screamy, milky, isolated chaos.
It turns out, high school & even college students aren't fb's demographic anymore : middle aged women are. It is still annoying, yet I get the appeal now, from a different angle.