Posted on 10/14/2009 11:42:32 AM PDT by freed0misntfree
(CNN) -- Like a lot of people, Anna Owens began using MySpace more than four years ago to keep in touch with friends who weren't in college. Our real-world friendships are often a reflection of who we connect with online, experts say.
Our real-world friendships are often a reflection of who we connect with online, experts say.
But soon she felt too old for the social-networking site, and the customizable pages with music that were fun at first began to annoy her. By the time she graduated from the University of Puget Sound, Owens' classmates weren't on MySpace -- they were on Facebook.
Throughout graduate school and beyond, as her network began to expand, Owens ceased using MySpace altogether. Facebook had come to represent the whole of her social and professional universe.
"MySpace has one population, Facebook has another," said the 26-year-old, who works for an affordable-housing nonprofit in San Francisco, California. "Blue-collar, part-time workers might like the appeal of MySpace more -- it definitely depends on who you meet and what they use; that's what motivates people to join and stay interested."
Is there a class divide online? Research suggests yes. A recent study by market research firm Nielsen Claritas found that people in more affluent demographics are 25 percent more likely to be found friending on Facebook, while the less affluent are 37 percent more likely to connect on MySpace.
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What happens when your phone breaks and you lose all your numbers? Several times a month I will get a message or see a status update asking for numbers because someone broke their phone and got a new one.
Then there are people you want to keep in touch with, but maybe don’t want to call on a regular basis. And one status update can replace a whole bunch of phone calls for big news.
Acorn, beat you by 1 second, give or take a nut.
What I don’t get is that there aren’t any barriers to joining any of these sites. No one is excluded from joining. If certain types of people prefer a certain site, WHO CARES?!
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But I have heard mothers talk about letting their teenage daughters access this type of site. I hear overwhelmingly that MySpace is trashy, with sex and drugs and violence having a heavy presence. The feeling seems to be that, if your teenage daughter absolutely has to go on one of these sites, Facebook is much cleaner and less discomforting.
Don't know if that's true. But there does seem to be the sense that MySpace is "the wrong side of the tracks".
If a person is seriously anal about their career, they can create a facebook account that is very professional with all sorts of professional “friends” and comments. Then, when potential employers scour around for information on you they will be duly impressed.
And if you have a facebook account they will almost CERTAINLY find it and review it. You can pretty much count on it.
Note, I work with an HR department as part of my job.
> Meh. My social network is who I meet in real life. I don’t post personal stuff on a public site, other than quips at places like here.
Exactly. Your Facebook “friends” are NOT your “friends”. Anyone who believes that must believe that hotness3147 is a really hot blonde.
>>Anyone who believes that must believe that hotness3147 is a really hot blonde.<<
NOW you tell me. We were going to have a lunch date today. :(
How are they going to see anything unless I add them as a friend?
I had heard it wasn’t about social class so much as Facebook was more of a myspace for grown ups. The younger crowd likes myspace. The old folks like the interactivity of facebook.
LOL
#6: Can you say, ACORN?
Not only have we skewed the subject, but we've done it in the correct vernacular.
I was kind'a hopin' a few would pick up on it and add to the list.
West Virginians know the deal.
There are people who are often way too busy to keep in personal touch, but I still know what’s going on with them because of facebook. Oddly, I have had the chance to “talk” to people and get to know them that I used to just casually say hello to before.
There’s a part in the article about how the Anne Owens lady interviewed a student who said something to the effect of “I don’t want to be racist, but like, MySpace is just ghetto.” The article then goes on to says that “that’s when it hit her [Owens]”. Owens then proceeds to talk about how Facebook was essentially being overwhelmingly used by whites in an attempt to separate themselves from the “ghetto” users on MySpace.
Total bull.
Get a life, you attention whores. You want to get in touch? There’s a device called a phone.
I’ll have to call LE (Lore Enforcement)
It probaby depends on who you add to your facebook. 90 per cent of those on my friends list are people I have met in person at least once. The rest are the few I knew from email groups years before and had gotten to talking to over the years.
heard a comedian back in the ‘80’s do a bit about having “mashed buh-daydahs” on Thanksgiving. It was then I realized it wasn’t all a dream.
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