[donkeyd]

> They see the mistakes of millennials and older with social media and want nothing to do with it (and are thus nowhere to be found on Facebook, yet still on Instagram because it hasn't suffered the same problems yet).

I have a hard time believing that people under 18 are making a conscious decision on this, especially the 'see the mistakes of milennials' part. They're only concerned with themselves an their status in their group, just like millenials were, but on a different platform.

My early teen sister, for example, uses Instagram and Snapchat for two reasons: all het friends use it, my mom doesn't want her to use Facebook because it has a bad rep. The fact that Instagram is owned by Facebook is something that most people, outside of the well informed, are unaware of.

[verall]

They definitely are.

Their moms (say 26-36yo range here) are on facebook, post pictures of them, and like their posts. It's never going to be the youth platform as long as everything said is said in front of your mom, dad, grandma, and racist uncle.

Young people -desperately- want to take selfies that won't get dredged up 3 years later, and have been hearing about horror stories about people posting pictures of illicit or just immature activities since myspace. A kid who has been aware of their whole life is about <20yo.