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February 8th 2012

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Teens join Twitter to escape parents on Facebook: survey

“Teens don’t tweet, will never tweet – too public, too many older users. Not cool.

That’s been the prediction for a while now, born of numbers showing that fewer than one in 10 teens were using Twitter early on.

But then their parents, grandparents, neighbours, parents’ friends and anyone in-between started friending them on Facebook, the social networking site of choice for many — and a curious thing began to happen…..”

Full Story: Globe and Mail

Posted at 5:54am and tagged with: trends, social media, tech, technology, demographics,.