Adults are infecting Facebook....oh well, it was good while it lasted.

"Nobody goes there anymore; it's too crowded."
  --  Yogi Berra

I was reminded of this great quote when read this article on how Facebook is loosing its allure to youngsters now because.....Mom and Dad are on it.

It was reported earlier this week that for a second month in a row Facebook is losing users in the U.S., Britain and Canada...

...A closer look at Facebook’s global usage shows that it’s actually still growing quite quickly in other countries (Mexico and Brazil continue to add a few million new users per month); and the fact that it has yet to enter China, the country with the largest population of all, should be an indication that it is nowhere near the end of its reign...

...That said, there is one simple rule that we all need to remember as Facebook navigates beyond the plateau in growth in the U.S.: Kids don’t want to be friends with their parents.  It’s a sad thought certainly, and it looks worse in print than in reality.  Many kids have great, honest, trusting relationships with their parents.  But when it comes to your personal social graph, at some point during the teen years you realize that you need your space—and Facebook is taking that space away from American kids by serving up access to their thoughts, comments, photos and friends . . . to their parents.

Early adoption of free technology is almost always driven by young people.  Whether it’s peer-to-peer file sharing, text-messaging, instant-messaging or even Tweeting, the young grasp these technologies more quickly and more willingly than adults do.  And that technology gap between kids and parents is a big reason for the rapid adoption.  Teenagers and young adults love it when they find a new way to communicate that their parents don’t get and don’t want.  Hence the myriad translators online that help parents better understand what their kids are typing into their mobile phones...

...But in 2011 all of that has changed.  The average age of a new Facebook user is approaching 40 years old.  The two fastest growing groups of Facebook users are adults ages 55 to 64 and 65-plus.  For a teenager trying to establish his or her identity and some level of personal independence and some level of privacy, Facebook simply doesn’t deliver on its original promise of exclusivity in today’s day and age....

...A study last year byRoiworld showed that nearly one in five teens surveyed said that they have an account but either no longer visit Facebook at all or are using Facebook significantly less.  It also indicated that the main reason many teens haven’t left Facebook altogether is the ability to play social games—not the ability to connect with friends.

Hey, no fair, this is our world. You go back to the real lake or actual baseball fieldls...we'll play the ones for Wii, thank you...

Then again I'm one of the adults with a little used Facebook account..... Over the hill?...What hill? I don't remember any hill?"