tentai

I read in a 2005 September article online that 85% of college students have facebook.

What about now? 99.9%?

Vehicle

I'm probably that .1% that doesn't have one.

PEQXC2012

Over 9000!!!

u§ername

I'd say maybe 10%? I doubt many students in china, japan, korea, south africa, etc have facebook...


Oh did you mean only in america?

jcmc2112

In America, I wouldn't be surprised if 99.9% of college students use Facebook

tentai

yes i meant US students

willmingtonwave

85%-90% seems about right. Facebook loses its relevancy the older you get in college. People deactivate their accounts for a variety of reasons, myself included.

AuburnMathTutor

"People deactivate their accounts for a variety of reasons"
- To include that it's an even bigger waste of time than College Confidential Cafe, and gosh, that's saying something. In all seriousness, facebook is - like so many things - alright in small doses.

How many people do you know who use facebook responsibly? I would say around none.nobody x 10^never percent of people use it for anything important.

AuburnMathTutor

"Over 9000!!!"
- I seriously just lolled all over the place.

PurpleAndProud

My roommate and I are the only Americans on my floor of 50 people who don't have facebook. Even our custodian has one. I deactivated mine over the summer.

I guess there is something to those roommate questionnaires.

tentai

^Why did you deactivate it?

baller4lyfe

Gosh I am on the verge of deactivating also. What a waste of time it is. It literally has suck us in the "tech life" and is degrading the value of daily life outdoors, natural life, etc., it is a poisonous plague.

It of course can be great for networking, connecting, what have you, obviously pluses to it, but I think the costs are definitely not unnoticed. It's super annoying, addicting, and time-consuming; plus, it makes me think unnecessarily over annoying things, and can make me mad at my friends even sometimes.

So annoying.