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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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?
And ADULTS, and high school students.
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.
MySpace is owned by Murdoch.
Facebook is privately owned.
What would classygreeneyedblonde do?
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.
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!
It's business model initially focused on college students. Logic dictates that there would still be a demographic bias.
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.
All in all, I'd say I escaped largely unharmed.
No, it means you're above all that rabble. And so am I.
Ping for later
They won’t. But they will ask.
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.
That means I'm sane, smart and good looking.
All the people I am friends with don’t use either one including myself, I think it’s stupid!
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.
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.
You are just jealous that you don’t have 1,567 “friends” on facebook.
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.
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