Does your social class determine your online social network?

cnn ^ | 10/13/09

[2Jedismom]

I know every single person on my facebook! I don’t approve people to be a friend if they aren’t actually friends!

Nobody I don’t know has even tried to become a friend of mine on facebook.

And they don’t go by handles...they go by their actual names and I can even get their phone numbers and call them.

My mom is on facebook, all my nieces and nephews, my church has a facebook page, my senator, my radio station, my tea party coordinator, my son’s karate association...

Why would you say my facebook friends are not my friends?

[VRWCmember]

Facebook was created for COLLEGE STUDENTS.

And ADULTS, and high school students.

[HungarianGypsy]

That definitely is bull! In my view, those who like facebook are the kinds who want to go to a party and interact. Myspace is like stnading in front of the party guests, saying “look at me”, then maybe talking to a few people over in the corner. I pulled down my myspace to the bare bones and will rebuild it as a portfolio site.

[nascarnation]

MySpace is owned by Murdoch.
Facebook is privately owned.

[VRWCmember]

Anyone who believes that must believe that hotness3147 is a really hot blonde.

What would classygreeneyedblonde do?

[knarf]

I was born and raised in Boston.

I've lost a lot of the tempo and audables, except ... I still pahk my cah.

There's a few uthahz ... I'll occasionally confess I cahn't do something, or invite a lady friend in the bahthtub with me.

I'm an interloper now, when I go back.

[2Jedismom]

I talk to the homeschooling moms in my support group on facebook, friends that belong to my vw club...old pals from high school, a couple of people I knew from college...old co-workers and current co-workers...

I enjoy knowing what is going on with them!

[FTJM]

"Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook with his college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes while he was a student at Harvard University.[4] The website's membership was initially limited to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It later expanded further to include any university student, then high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over. The website currently has more than 300 million active users worldwide.[5]"

It's business model initially focused on college students. Logic dictates that there would still be a demographic bias.

[HungarianGypsy]

I became acquainted with the high school chum of a good friend of mine because of facebook. We were at lunch talking about our mutual friend and he made mention that while he hadn’t seen our friend in over two years he was still able to keep up with what was happening in his life and talk to him about different things because of facebook.

[the invisib1e hand]

i will forever put my socks in a draw.

All in all, I'd say I escaped largely unharmed.

[GovernmentShrinker]

So, if I don’t belong to ANY of these things, does that mean I have no class at all?

No, it means you're above all that rabble. And so am I.

[Alex Murphy]

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.

Ping for later

[RobRoy]

They won’t. But they will ask.

[HungarianGypsy]

I have co workers that I had an interest in knowing, but we never had time. We talk to each other all the time now. A muscian whose music I liked is now a friend of mine and our families visit in person. None of this would happen without these silly social networks.

[ArrogantBustard]

I use FR.

That means I'm sane, smart and good looking.

[dalereed]

All the people I am friends with don’t use either one including myself, I think it’s stupid!

[2Jedismom]

My son has a facebook. He got it when he was 13. I monitor it closely at this time of course, but it occurred to me one day that he never needs to ever loose touch with anyone! The friends he has on facebook (that are friends he’s met at church or support group activities or grandparents or such...real people he knows in real life) may very well be the same friends he’s in touch with when he’s in his mid-forties like I am!

I think it’s a miracle.

[petitfour]

A friend from high school started a Facebook page to help coordinate the high school reunion and to get people who lived far away from our home town to join in the festivities. That’s when I joined FB, and I’ve reconnected with a lot of friends who live all over the country. All of my friends on FB are college educated with a few exceptions. My friends where we live now are not on my FB friends list though we have talked about how we all have FB accounts. (a few exceptions to that as well)

Our college student daughter signed up for FB due to pressure from her boss and coworkers. She doesn’t care for it. She doesn’t do MySpace either. Our high school daughter has a MySpace page, but she is checking it less and less in favor of Facebook. She and her classmates use FB primarily for communicating outside of school. She was helping someone with homework via FB the other night. Her friends who are not of a higher intellect flock to MySpace. So I guess the ‘class’ or ‘education level’ thing applies even to high schoolers.

[Augustinian monk]

You are just jealous that you don’t have 1,567 “friends” on facebook.

[2Jedismom]

Here’s something else...my younger brother lives 12 hours away from me and just mainly due to both our hectic schedules, I haven’t seen him but 1 time in five years. But I talk to him every day! I see pictures and videos of his family. I even play Scrabble with him! All on facebook.