My oldest son deleted his account over a year ago. He likes privacy and anonymity. Most of the males his age have accounts, but they do not post. I think they have been burned and caught doing things they shouldn’t. Hah! The females are more likely to have accounts and to use them.
A few weeks ago, there was a Facebook page created called True Confessions of Blah HS. It was full of some bad stuff about teens at our sons’ school. The school admin found out about it and asked Facebook to shut it down due to the bullying nature of the posts. Facebook complied. The same thing happened at multiple schools in the city. So there are users. My sons had seen the posts and had to tell me about them as soon as they walked through the door that day. They were disappointed that I did not get to see more posts because all that was left were Tweets of posts copied from the Facebook page.
Earlier in the school year, there was a fight between some athletes from one sport versus athletes from another sport. The brainiacs were recorded by multiple bystanders. The videos were posted on Facebook and Twitter. Of course, the videos were used to suspend participants. But the entertainment value for these thugs was great. I don’t think any of them killed their Facebook accounts or their Twitter accounts afterward. Even moms of the fighters had the videos on their phones to show other moms. I have yet to see any of these videos, but one of the boys who was suspended is supposed to show me what he has on his phone. He is proud that he kicked the butt of this older punk.
Like I said, Facebook is evil.