week 3

Both written in 2014, the two required article reads on Facebook were interesting to read, because it's been almost four years since they were published and are both still relevant; will Facebook stay or go? As one who believes Facebook is here to stay for the foreseeable future, neither of these articles were really able to capture why. Some of my group members (on the 'stay' team) were too fixed on social media being compared to a disease than the real issues or points of interest in the articles. A few of these include the fact that there is no good way to research the growth and present use of social media, studies are hard because the digital world changes at a hyper speed, and that social medias of the past aren't comparable to todays. Facebook changes all the time, but sometimes we don't even realize it. They have apparently mastered studies on how to keep people coming back, because we log on at least once a week! While I may not be an everyday user, nor care about every parent's kids' first poo in the potty, I do like to check in on certain people that I may not get to see often. Just because the "youth"--whoever that applies to--isn't logging on daily, or making an account right away, doesn't mean Facebook will die with the next generation. (The discrepancy with youth lies in whether people of our age still consider themselves the younger population--because I am 21, I don't feel I fall in the same category of today's 12 year olds. That's not to say I fit with today's 30 year olds, but I definitely think we are on the more mature side of the age spectrum now...well, some of us.)