Baby Boomer Family Worries Solved With Facebook

(Newswire.net — July 7, 2015) Steyning,, West Sussex — Facebook was established as an online social networking service based in Menlo Park, California. The official Facebook website was launched on February 4, 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, along with college roommates at Harvard University, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. The pioneer social networking site had been initially limited to Harvard students, but was later expanded to other colleges within the Boston area, and then gradually added students from other US universities, and high-school students.

 

Founded in 2004, The Facebook mission was to give people the power to share, and make the world more open and connected. Today, people generally use Facebook to remain connected with friends and family, to see just what’s going on in the world, and to share and express matters important to them. Since 2006, the requirement to be at least 13 years old was introduced for net-workers to become registered users of the website, though that age requirement could be higher depending on applicable local laws.

 

Statistics released for March 2015 indicated that Facebook has an average of 936 million daily active users, with 798 million of them being cell-phone users. The monthly averages resulted in 1.44 billion monthly active users, 1.25 billion of which are cell-phone users. Age demographics for Facebook users recently published are: Ages 13-17, 9.8 Million (5.4%). Ages 18-24, 42 Million (23.3%). Ages 25-34, 44 Million (24.4%). Ages 35-54, 56 Million (31.1%). Ages 55+, 28 Million (15.6%). According to the stats released, the Facebook user base is dominated by the 25+ age group, though still have 28+ million users for the 55+ age group tuning in on a daily basis.

 

Research shows that similar demographics also apply for cell-phone users, meaning the baby boomer community is well behind their younger family members when it comes to modern day communication. Better WiFi has lead to a shift in how people communicate today, with most contact now being made through free messaging services, rather than by phone. Many of the baby boomer generation have seen how much more difficult it has become to get in contact with their family, though only a small percentage have taken the step of keeping up with the times.

 

According to Peter Halm, official spokesman for best selling personal development system “A Bug Free Mind,” Facebook is the ideal solution for different generations to keep in touch with daily events. He added: “My father was struggling with me when not answering my iPhone, and texting seemed to be out of the question, so I showed him my Facebook timeline. He couldn’t believe how much of my life he had missed out on, so I just spent the next 30 minutes with him, and now he’s virtually become a Facebook addict. He never phones me anymore, and he’s even learned how to send me messages on Facebook, so probably the best 30 minutes I’ve ever spent with my father in a productive manner.”

 

 

 

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