Teens Starting to See Facebook as Old and Creepy

It's hard to give up Facebook once you're entrenched, but teens may be pulling away from the social network, and that could deter the next generation of adolescents from even signing on. The trouble with Facebook, as teens told Pew Research in some recent focus groups, is that it's old -- and stupid and annoying. Too much drama and not enough privacy. Twitter, on the other hand, is fine.

Facebook may have a budding problem on its hands with its teenagers, suggests a report released Tuesday by Pew Research Center.

Teens expressed waning enthusiasm for Facebook in focus groups, according to Pew, saying they disliked the growing number of adults on the site, were annoyed by "inane" status updates, and viewed the drama commonly played out on Facebook as draining. Finally, managing their reputation on Facebook was stressful they said.

 















 Teens seemed to be far more favorably disposed toward Twitter than in the past, Pew found. Twenty-four percent of online teens said they used Twitter, up from 16 percent in 2011.