Age of Social Network Users

New data from Pingdom on the age of social network users confirms the rumours. They are mostly quite old, or they lie a lot about their age.

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Masked Hoodies on the Internet

I am always sus­pi­cious of Internet ‘experts’ who pay homage to the digital natives idea. The idea that young people are not only gen­er­a­tion­ally dif­ferent from me, but also are psy­cho­lo­gic­ally different.

Perhaps it’s my age. Being over-​​​​40, I react badly to anything that suggests that I’m not long from the care home.

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Kids, eh

via. Communities Dominate Brands

 

And appar­ently the most blogged about video on the ‘net at the moment. The URL of the creators, fleet­ingly referred to towards the end is http://www.mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/

“… the basic idea is to create a 3 minute video high­lighting the most important char­ac­ter­istics of students today – how they

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MySpace — Not for Kids

The majority of MySpace users (51.6%) are aged 35 and older, according to a press release from metrics company comScore.

An analysis of visitors to MySpace.com shows that as the site has exper­i­enced dramatic visitor growth, it has become more popular among older Internet users. The most sig­ni­ficant shift has occurred among teens 12–17, who

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