GoPre Posted August 16, 2015 Report Share Posted August 16, 2015 Wow! Just learned this today. The average age of Facebook users in the U.S. is 40! Less than 10% of users are 17 or younger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
That Aud Smell Posted August 16, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2015 Not sure if posted upthread, but BN continues its effort to correct the publishing of the Croce comments. http://mobile.buffalonews.com/sectionfront/content/?content=71528664&type=P1&story=Time%20to%20speak%20out%20on%20sports%27%20rape%20culture Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunomatic Posted August 16, 2015 Report Share Posted August 16, 2015 Wow! Just learned this today. The average age of Facebook users in the U.S. is 40! Less than 10% of users are 17 or younger. They're into snapchat and every other new site that crops up that us oldies aren't quick enough to latch onto. Not much keeps the attention of todays 16-17 year olds now days. It had better serve them well or they move on to the newest thing. Shite ! I just realized I'm prolly considered/am an old codger :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darksabre Posted August 16, 2015 Report Share Posted August 16, 2015 Wow! Just learned this today. The average age of Facebook users in the U.S. is 40! Less than 10% of users are 17 or younger. It kinda makes sense though. You can only have so many young users joining Facebook at a time while many of us who have been there since day one are aging and skewing the results in our favor. Facebook came out when I was 17/18. A lot of us from that first wave are approaching 30 and many of our parents have jumped in as well due to our use of it. I'm not surprised at all that Facebook is largely populated by people over 17. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildCard Posted August 16, 2015 Report Share Posted August 16, 2015 That and younger people tend to find the newest form of social media and flock to it long before it catches on in other age groups Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sicknfla Posted August 16, 2015 Report Share Posted August 16, 2015 I have 3 boys 13-18. All say FB is for old people. Instagram and Snapchat are what they use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inkman Posted August 17, 2015 Report Share Posted August 17, 2015 I have 3 boys 13-18. All say FB is for old people. Instagram and Snapchat are what they use. So they communicate with just photos, mostly of each other's junk. 17 and older of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbb Posted August 17, 2015 Report Share Posted August 17, 2015 So they communicate with just photos, mostly of each other's junk. 17 and older of course. That's what I've wondered the last few years. I don't get how they're communicating. Tumblr is or was super popular, and that seems to me it's just all pictures. Same with instagram, and I think snapchat. I keep hearing about snapstories but have no idea what they are. How are they communicating - without words?!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eleven Posted August 17, 2015 Report Share Posted August 17, 2015 Not sure if posted upthread, but BN continues its effort to correct the publishing of the Croce comments. http://mobile.buffalonews.com/sectionfront/content/?content=71528664&type=P1&story=Time%20to%20speak%20out%20on%20sports%27%20rape%20culture Disgusting. Hey, Amy, you're a woman. Defend us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
That Aud Smell Posted August 17, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2015 Disgusting. Hey, Amy, you're a woman. Defend us. I glossed the piece. Don't follow your take. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eleven Posted August 17, 2015 Report Share Posted August 17, 2015 I glossed the piece. Don't follow your take. My feeling is that TBN has screwed up so much that they are now handing the treatment of the screwup to a sportswriter who happens to be a woman, just because she is a woman. Please don't get me wrong; Amy Moritz is a good writer, but she's just about as established at TBN as Risto is in the Sabres lineup. I don't think TBN has another woman sportswriter. I think TBN threw her into the fray as a "hey, here's a woman!" thing rather than owning up to their complete up on the Croce article. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
That Aud Smell Posted August 17, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2015 Ahh, gotcha. Makes sense. Her piece is all fine and well, but the paper's scrambling after its misstep has become absurd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eleven Posted August 17, 2015 Report Share Posted August 17, 2015 Ahh, gotcha. Makes sense. Her piece is all fine and well, but the paper's scrambling after its misstep has become absurd. Yes. Just my feeling, but that's it. Thing is, it sux because I think she's a very good sportswriter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
That Aud Smell Posted August 17, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2015 AMY MORITZ WILL BE FINE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darksabre Posted August 17, 2015 Report Share Posted August 17, 2015 Maybe Amy requested to be involved because as a woman she feels compelled? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrueBlueGED Posted August 17, 2015 Report Share Posted August 17, 2015 If TBN really wanted to make it right they'd stop leaking pieces of information in one vacuum after another such that we have no idea what means what, but it could still sway plenty of people's opinions. Seriously, they need to just stop coverage until they can put out something significant (or, ya know, just wait for the police investigation). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eleven Posted August 17, 2015 Report Share Posted August 17, 2015 If TBN really wanted to make it right they'd stop leaking pieces of information in one vacuum after another such that we have no idea what means what, but it could still sway plenty of people's opinions. Seriously, they need to just stop coverage until they can put out something significant (or, ya know, just wait for the police investigation). Yep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
That Aud Smell Posted August 17, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2015 Maybe Amy requested to be involved because as a woman she feels compelled? I know a gal who writes for TBN (not Amy). She was livid with the Croce quotes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbb Posted August 17, 2015 Report Share Posted August 17, 2015 If TBN really wanted to make it right they'd stop leaking pieces of information in one vacuum after another such that we have no idea what means what, but it could still sway plenty of people's opinions. Seriously, they need to just stop coverage until they can put out something significant (or, ya know, just wait for the police investigation). If they really had accurate sources, I'd be OK with it. But, the same people who told us that the accuser was not the girl that Croce was talking about - now are saying that it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PASabreFan Posted August 17, 2015 Report Share Posted August 17, 2015 AMY MORITZ WILL BE FINE. Maybe, but that wasn't a great effort on her part. It was so vaguely written and full of stereotypes — jock brahs makin' jokes about gettin' the girl, it's gotta stop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LGR4GM Posted August 17, 2015 Report Share Posted August 17, 2015 And this is why young people don't use Facebook anymore. From what I'm told by young people. Young people use Instagram. AMY MORITZ WILL BE FINE. I have this feeling that this meme will never die. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
That Aud Smell Posted August 17, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2015 Young people use Instagram. I thought the kids were calling it the 'Gram. Not so, oldest daughter advised. She maintains it's generally called Insty. I've been fairly conversant with the social media. But Snapchat is where I get off the train and become an old person. I have this feeling that this meme will never die. It shouldn't. We must be careful not to abuse it through overuse, however. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LGR4GM Posted August 17, 2015 Report Share Posted August 17, 2015 I thought the kids were calling it the 'Gram. Not so, oldest daughter advised. She maintains it's generally called Insty. I've been fairly conversant with the social media. But Snapchat is where I get off the train and become an old person. It shouldn't. We must be careful not to abuse it through overuse, however. isnty is the slang for it and I have personally started to use it more. FB is just too bitchy this days. As that means creator, I have monitored it's use and thus far it has been used appropriately and for some good hilarity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darksabre Posted August 17, 2015 Report Share Posted August 17, 2015 I thought the kids were calling it the 'Gram. Not so, oldest daughter advised. She maintains it's generally called Insty. I've been fairly conversant with the social media. But Snapchat is where I get off the train and become an old person. It shouldn't. We must be careful not to abuse it through overuse, however. LIGER'S MEME WILL BE FINE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtDart Posted August 17, 2015 Report Share Posted August 17, 2015 Plenty of officers do security-type jobs off hours. By all accounts, whatever happened was after the cop left, so he didn't witness a crime. As long as he tells the truth when questioned as to what led up to the possible crime, I don't see a problem. I don't think there's anything to see here. TBN reporting on nothing. I guess it's better than the Croce article. Plus the cop has carry, and arrest authority if things get out of hand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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