13-year-old Ruby Karp, a New Yorker, says that none of her friends use Facebook anymore because it’s gotten complicated and has become “a huge marketing mouthpiece.”
“When I was younger, my mom had a Facebook. I would always go on it. I would take quizzes, play games etc. Facebook used to be its own, unique thing. It was kind of big but at the same time, cool,” she wrote in an op-ed on Mashable.
“As the years went on, I always wanted a Facebook I could call my own. But once I got it, everything started changing. There’s too much going on. The change from the old Facebook to the Timeline was very all of a sudden. Look at something like Twitter, where it’s four buttons — people like the ’simple' design better.”
Karp says that there are other reasons that none of her friends--and her, after she got on and her only friend was her grandma--are using Facebook.
-There are other networks now--Instagram is immensely popular with her and her friends
-Teens want what’s “trending,” and Facebook doesn’t seem to be trending
-Her parents and parents friends are all on Facebook, so if somebody posts a picture of her at a party, even if she’s not drinking, than her mom would see and “I'd be dead,” she writes.
-Facebook is a big source of bullying in middle school
