Facebook: Favorite Among Boomers
Five years ago, a Harvard University student created a social networking website known as Facebook. It quickly grew in popularity among college students across the world. Today it claims to have 150 million users. Missouri public radio/KSMU’s Kristian Kriner reports on a new demographic getting into the Facebook craze: baby boomers.
Tina Jarvis, or as her grandkids call her “Mamie,” joined Facebook in August of last year to stay in touch with her friends and family.
Jarvis says she worked with the young adults in her church for six years, and they encouraged her to join Facebook.
She says she was the first in her family to join, and some of her family members have told her she’s too old for it.
“I’m amazed since I’ve been on at the increase in older people. Because when I first got on there wasn’t anybody that I knew, my age doing it. And now there’s tons. Almost every time I get on there, there’s somebody else that’s in my generation that’s got on,” Jarvis said.
Facebook says it’s fastest growing demographic is those age 30 and older, particularly baby boomers.
Category: Baby Boomer Culture, Baby Boomers
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I have found family I never knew in Estonia. All that I did was do a search on my last name and they came up in the results.
I would never known about this part of my family if it had not been for Facebook.
Mark Parbus
http://www.babyboomerjourney.com
Just wanted to know if there were any baby boomer forums or groups on facebook? Because I would be really interested to join!