Facebook really is elementary

He’s only a fifth-grader at Gorrie Elementary School, but already he has 190 friends. On Facebook, anyway.

Maybe because his profile says he graduated from Plant High School in 1990.

“I’m tiired :/,” reads his status update.

“Me2,” comes a reply. “K,” says another, followed by “LOL.”

And it’s growing more popular among children – especially the “between” market, those 8 to 12 years old, social media experts say.

“That’s this generation,” said Scott Testa, a marketing professor at Cabrini College near Philadelphia and the father of fifth-grade twins on Facebook. They’re there with his blessing; children this age have been “raised on computers and cell phones,” he said.

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