Will grown-ups use Facebook?

I’m 31, frequent user of LinkedIn, but I have been avoiding joining MySpace. My husband is in grad school and just invited me to join facebook. After reading your article I tried it out and started a profile. No one from my year of high school is even in facebook. To join some kind of network thingy they have you have to have an email address from that university! It has been 10 years since I have had an .edu email addy. I am not about to try to track down an alumni address just to get access to something I am not sure people I have known are even using! Seems like overall they have a good idea… Linked in with more features, but while 50% + of the people I work with and used to work with are on LinkedIn, only my hubbie is on Facebook. I know what he is interested in already, I don’t need a website for that.

Here’s a Gen Y’er that thinks Facebook is too pretentious. I’ll take MySpace’s “total access” to Facebook’s ivory tower any day.

Kirkpatrick’s story on the announcement and the overall mission of Facebook nailed it.

Personally, as a Generation Yer, the story hit pretty close to home. The whole story of Facebook really defines our generation and

I’m telling you first hand; the college crowd isn’t going to leave… Like many college alums I have started to dabble in other social networks for “professionals” like LinkedIN, but Facebook keeps pulling me back. Why?

Because it’s about cultivating relationships with people I already know and have shared 3:00 a.m. bleary-eyed discussions with. Like Kirkpatrick duly noted.

Slowly after some time the college crowd will start to go back less frequently but they will still check-in from time-to-time and the next generation of college and high school students will carry the torch.

I was graduating as an undergraduate when Facebook first came to my university and it instantly took off.

The funniest thing is that the class that graduated ahead of me has no idea what the Facebook phenomenon really is.

Just one year difference and they don’t understand how closely entwined Facbook became in everyday College life.

From organizing parties & fund raisers, sharing pictures, stories, declaring relationships and viewpoints, defining myself, letting me know my friend from abroad was having their birthday, letting people know where I was; it became a daily part of my life.

In truth these days, it’s like waking up in the morning and reading an online newspaper about what is going on across your “Friend’s World.” That’s what the feeds have enabled.

Yeah, it started out as a great hook-up tool for frat brothers but it has evolved into so much more. That’s why this announcement from Zuckerberg didn’t catch me off-guard at all.

Involving your friends in everything you do online; is what Facebook has already turned into. At least in my social circles…

Facebook is going to end up being Microsoft’s best move of the decade because I truly believe Facebook will far surpass Myspace in the next couple years and become a company that is mentioned in the same breath with the likes of Yahoo! and Google.

I truly enjoyed his piece. As long as Zuckerberg doesn’t let the site become overly commercial and sticks to the mission of “growing your relationships online with old and new friends” Facebook will be the company that we are talking about in the next decade.

“I Googled it” and “I Facebooked him” will be synonymous phrases in all social circles..

I too was a senior in college when Facebook launched, and it has become an increasingly useful to me since then. What better way to keep up with friends from high school, college and the “real world” all in one place? It’s also a great way to find links to people you’ve recently met — your friend from elementary school lived down the hall from me in college, etc. Poking is definitely not the attraction — I check it to see that a friend from high school I’ve lost touch with is moving to London and that another recently got married (pictures included, of course).

I don’t think many “older” folks will join because the people they want to keep up with aren’t on there in critical mass. But for us Gen Yers (per Nadira Hira’s great cover piece this week), it’s convenient, on-demand and as unobtrusive as we choose.

That said — Adam: I just friended you.

I was a senoir in college when facebook first launched. Since then all of my friend have graduated and facebook has become the best way to keep track of people scattered across the country and th globe. Because the contact information on face book is maintained by its owner it is nearly always up to date and you are notified immediately if some information changes. I think that as more and more students graduate who use facebook in college it will become more and more popular. I don’t think many adult will join facebook who graduate from college 10 years ago, because very few of their peers use to site. The value of the network to them is minimal.