We Grilled Nine Teens About Their Digital Lives — And They All Groaned When Facebook Came Up

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These are not the teens from the conference.

Asked whether they were friends with their parents on Facebook, several of the teens on stage at Business Insider's Ignition 2013 conference groaned loudly. 

Stephanie Retblatt of Smarty Pants interviewed nine New York City teenagers, ages ranging from 14 to 17, about their digital lives and habits.

"I hate Facebook. It's just so boring," one teenage girl said, before declaring her sworn allegiance to Instagram.

“I used to scroll down Facebook and read every single status," another added. "Now I just love Vine.”

One young woman even confessed that her mother had more than double the amount of Facebook friends that she did.

Facebook admitted in its recent earnings report that younger teens are less active on the site than ever before, and although several of the nine teens said that they still use Facebook messenger to communicate with friends, they're increasingly turning toward other social media as well.