"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.
It's business model initially focused on college students. Logic dictates that there would still be a demographic bias. Not necessarily in the direction it's gone, though. If it was originally set up for high end college students, and had gradually modified itself in ways designed to KEEP those original members and acquire new members from the friends and business colleagues those members made as they grew up and move into the work world, it would have a demographic that's mainly above college age, well-educated, and affluent. Instead it moved downstream, both in age and in socioeconomic class. It may still be more upscale than MySpace, but not by much.