Older People Like Me on Facebook

USA Today has an interesting article about parents and older persons on Facebook. First a little history lesson for all you Facebook social networking participants...
*Mark Zuckerberg with Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes, launched Facebook from their Harvard dorm room in 2004. Then it only allowed users with a college email addresses.
*In September 2005, Facebook opened to high school students.
*In September 2006, Facebook opened its social networking web to all.
At first, only 75,000 active users were over 35 years of age. That was less than 1% of users.
By August 2007, the numbers of older persons jumped 4,700% to 3.6 million users. That's still only 9% of active users. But does the idea of parents and other adults on Facebook make younger users feel like their cyberspace has been invaded? Some kids feel like it's having mom or dad in the classroom. Young people like their privacy. So will teens turn to something else? Will Facebook become a dinosaur in the next few years? Are you bugged that a 53 year old man, like myself is on Facebook?
These are the days my friend,
Jim 'Train"