America seems obsessed with Facebook - especially journalism school as they fight to stay relevant in the changing media world. No matter that traditional writing and reporting skills are being crowded out by the flash of social media products like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Much of what is uploaded or tweeted is not journalism in the traditional sense - but who cares? Students like it. Scholars gain attention writing about it. And j-schools love the attention the new social media instruments bring. But for some, Facebook is not all that it is cracked up to be. This NYT story talks about how teens are turning off to Facebook - finding it to be an enormous time drain.
The New York Times - Facebook, the popular networking site, has 350 million members worldwide who, collectively, spend 10 billion minutes there every day, checking in with friends, writing on people’s electronic walls, clicking through photos and generally keeping pace with the drift of their social world.
Make that 9.9 billion and change. Recently, Halley Lamberson, 17, and Monica Reed, 16, juniors at San Francisco University High School, made a pact to help each other resist the lure of the login. Their status might as well now read, “I can’t be bothered.”
Facebook will not reveal how many users have deactivated service, but Kimberly Young, a psychologist who is the director of the Center for Internet Addiction Recovery in Bradford, Pa., said she had spoken with dozens of teenagers trying to break the Facebook habit.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/21/technology/internet/21facebook.html
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