When Facebook opened its doors to a limitless age group, did this alienate its coveted youth demographic?
My name is Adam Shahbaz. I am 23 years old and the assistant editor at iMedia Communications. I am Facebook friends with my boss, Brad Berens. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal outlined the horrors of being “friended” by a boss at work. And although that fear is real, the new Facebook plan goes even further, marginalizing the very people that made it grow: people like me. Facebook me In the summer of 2006, before my time at iMedia, I logged onto my Facebook account — as I had done everyday for the last year — and saw something I had never seen before. All of a sudden I had a “news feed.” I knew what my friends were up to at all times. I got the hot gossip as it happened. But then a group like “Coke>Pepsi” invited me to join, and I started getting their event notifications without even accepting the initial invitation. My once immaculately groomed inbox became a wasteland of announcements from people I did not know, from schools I had not heard of, clubs I did not care for,
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