{"id":96335,"date":"2007-10-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/2007\/10\/17\/geezers-crashing-the-facebook-party\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T04:17:55","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T09:17:55","slug":"geezers-crashing-the-facebook-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/internet\/2007\/10\/17\/geezers-crashing-the-facebook-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Geezers Crashing the Facebook Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Last week I was invited to present to University of Maryland&#8217;s Media, Self &amp; Society program on the topic of social networking. Typically, when I give presentations about our research on SNS, my audience consists of adults in leadership positions, many of whom are trying to answer several key questions: 1) Why is social networking so popular with young people? 2) Is it just a fad that will soon recede into the sea of dead tech trends? 3) If it isn&#8217;t a fad, how can my organization or business take advantage of all the buzz around social networking? <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> However, when I get a rare chance to present to students, the tables are turned. I&#8217;m the one with the questions, and I&#8217;m eager to hear uncensored reports straight from the networked horse&#8217;s mouth, as it were. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> In this instance, many of the students&#8217; comments echoed trends that have been highlighted in recent articles and reports: <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> First, according to them, there&#8217;s clearly something creepy and weird about the influx of adults &#8220;infiltrating&#8221; what were once the collegiate walls of Facebook. A recent NYTimes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/14\/fashion\/14facebook.html?pagewanted=1&amp;_r=1\">article<\/a> described this as the &#8220;graying&#8221; of Facebook. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Even creepier to them: The growing realization that the public versions of many social networking profiles are <a href=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/070911-103851.php%20D;A;\">accessible via search engines<\/a> and could be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/06\/11\/us\/11recruit.html?_r=2&amp;oref=slogin&amp;oref=slogin\">searched by potential employers<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> So, while there may not be the same expectation of privacy among peers in this generation, there&#8217;s still a sense that when <i>older adults<\/i> crash your party online, unless you&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2003\/02\/21\/earlyshow\/leisure\/celebspot\/main541466.shtmlD;A;\">Frank the Tank<\/a>, it&#8217;s probably not a 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