'It's changed my social life completely.' 'We use Facebook to arrange to meet all over the country,' she says. Sheila, on the other hand, has made contact with old friends from school she hasn't heard from in forty years. Unlike her grandmother's generation, Chloe's age group is spending so much time on their phones at home that they are missing out on spending time with their friends in real life. 'I look at it before I go to sleep and as soon as I wake up.' 'It's my alarm clock so I have to,' she says. Chloe, aged 15, even sleeps with her phone. Children under 17 in the UK are leaving the site – only 2.2 million users are under 17 – but they're not going far from their smartphones. Ironically, Sheila's grandchildren are less likely to use Facebook themselves. That's how we did it when I was a child, but I think I'm lucky I get to see so much more of their lives than my grandparents did.' It's a much better way to see what they're doing than waiting for letters and photos in the post. Sheila, aged 59, says, 'I joined to see what my grandchildren are doing, as my daughter posts videos and photos of them. In the UK the over-55s are joining Facebook in increasing numbers, meaning that they will soon be the site's second biggest user group, with 3.5 million users aged 55–64 and 2.9 million over-65s. Today's grandparents are joining their grandchildren on social media, but the different generations' online habits couldn't be more different.
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