Anonymous wrote:The teens I know on Facebook seem to use it mostly to promote lawn mowing business, pet sitting business, babysitting, tutoring, etc. trying to reach parents.

This is why mine have one. We live in a gated community and they get tons of babysitting work through the neighborhood FB page.

LOOKING UP TEACHERS INFO.

Mine joined for about four weeks but never posted anything. His main reason was that he wanted to keep up with older cousins (who also never post anything, lol).

Eventually Facebook deactivated his account because they thought it was fake. DS didn’t care because he thought FB was “boring”. I’m with him there. My own feed is about 80% random stuff and 20% actual friends.

Anonymous wrote:It’s the main tool used at DD’s HS for its messenger feature. Groups also seem to use it to post “come to X club” type info stuff. She does not post anything - but uses messenger constantly and says it’s actually tough for kids not on it since it’s more of a pain to communicate with the few # that boycott FB.

+1

Anonymous wrote:I thought FB was for boomers. Neither of you belong there.

That’s ridiculous. It’s open to everyone 13 and over. They wouldn’t survive if it was only one small group of older people.

Anonymous wrote:Marketplace. My son and his friends are looking at cars and parts for cars if they own one already. That is the only reason they have accounts. I asked the same thing. They are not using actual FB.

+1 my 19yo joined this summer to shop apartment furniture

It’s the main tool used at DD’s HS for its messenger feature. Groups also seem to use it to post “come to X club” type info stuff. She does not post anything - but uses messenger constantly and says it’s actually tough for kids not on it since it’s more of a pain to communicate with the few # that boycott FB.

I mainly use it for Facebook groups.

I have a 14 year old cousin who uses it specifically to send me random memes.

Snooping on their parents.

Thanks. These all make sense! Didn’t think about marketplace especially.

—op