[mountainlion]

The guy that wrote the article does not make much sense. FB is a quick email system that pictures are easy to manipulate. I keep up with my distant cousins. It is much more convenient and user friendly than email. Most of my cousins are over 60 and find it convenient. I would expect clunky old email would go away before FB. Adults and kids can be separate so kids really don't know who is there.

[Dysart]

I think the point is being missed here. The thrust of the article is that FB will be a poor investment going forward because the younger crowd will tire of it and leave, and the new generation comes along on its heels will not immerse themselves in it in the first place, opting for other technological self-sufficient destinations. And advertisers (which fund the site) will flow elsewhere. I think of FB as AOL for social networking...and we all know how that panned out. Yes, there will be those who continue to utilize it, but a mature target demographic is not a prized one necessarily from a marketing perspective; this is especially true on the web.