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<blockquote data-quote="Bullgrit" data-source="post: 6631825" data-attributes="member: 31216">I think participating on/with Facebook, et al. is more driven by having a personality for socializing than by having a personality for adopting technology. For instance, I'm very non-social, generally, but I explore the Internet wide and deep. My wife is more social, but less steeped in the Internet as a whole. As I said earlier, I have extremely little to do with FB. My wife gets almost all her information (news, trends, etc.) through FB.My wife knows all about the lives and goings on with our friends and families because of FB, and I know only what she tells me she saw on FB. But I know far more what's going on in the Internet world than she does. Every time she wants to show me a video or tell me a story she saw on FB, I already know it from my Internet usage. (She doesn't know what a meme is. She's seen some, she just didn't know it was a thing with a name.)Generally, my wife is very web unsavvy, and I am the family web guru. She comes to me for help with any and all web sites, but she knows FB very well, and I know next to nothing about its workings. So it's not an interest in the Internet or technology that drives interest in social media. It's a drive to be social that people learn to love social media, not a desire to be in the latest application or Internet environment. Bullgrit</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bullgrit, post: 6631825, member: 31216"] I think participating on/with Facebook, et al. is more driven by having a personality for socializing than by having a personality for adopting technology. For instance, I'm very non-social, generally, but I explore the Internet wide and deep. My wife is more social, but less steeped in the Internet as a whole. As I said earlier, I have extremely little to do with FB. My wife gets almost all her information (news, trends, etc.) through FB. My wife knows all about the lives and goings on with our friends and families because of FB, and I know only what she tells me she saw on FB. But I know far more what's going on in the Internet world than she does. Every time she wants to show me a video or tell me a story she saw on FB, I already know it from my Internet usage. (She doesn't know what a meme is. She's seen some, she just didn't know it was a thing with a name.) Generally, my wife is very web unsavvy, and I am the family web guru. She comes to me for help with any and all web sites, but she knows FB very well, and I know next to nothing about its workings. So it's not an interest in the Internet or technology that drives interest in social media. It's a drive to be social that people learn to love social media, not a desire to be in the latest application or Internet environment. Bullgrit [/QUOTE]

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