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Baby Boomers Appear to Be Ditching Facebook

May 28, 2009 by Orlando  
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Sign up for our Weekly Web 2.0 Newsletter here!Mashable.com is reporting that Baby Boomers are ditching Facebook–or so it seems.  All the trends seem to point out that those over 55 were bubble Baby Boomers on Facebook.  Well, the bubble seems to have burst.  As Mashable points out:

Between November 2008 and February 2009, the baby boomer set (age 55-65) was one of the fastest growing segments on the social network, up 175.3% for females and 137.8% for males, according to the statistics. But that user boom was short-lived, and those users aren’t returning in the same numbers.  In April and May there were actually 650,000 less users over the age of 55 on Facebook than the previous two months — the only age demographic where the site experienced a decrease in users over that period.

Well, so much for the older generation and technology.  Maybe it’s a return to snail mail.

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