Posts Tagged: Information Science
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Jan 10
How to survive in the new media ecology | Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project
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Jan 10
The demographics of Facebook – Is this why the privacy policy keeps changing?
In its earliest days, Facebook was primarily a white and Asian phenomenon. No more. In the first study of the race and ethnicity of its U.S. users, Facebook said Wednesday that blacks and Latinos have joined the social networking giant at a rapid clip in the past several years.
So essentially masses of other people have joined Social Networks in droves, regardless of age, gender, or ethnicity? I understand there is a sociological value in such a study, but seriously, how much research must one do to prove the obvious?
And lets look further than the obvious – what is the value of said information? That people use social networks? That social networks are becoming popular? That Facebook is the most popular social network? But among these and many other questions, how many of these questions did we not already know the answer to before Facebook, or even before these studies?
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Jan 10
Social networking site users younger than overall internet population | Pew Research Centers Internet & American Life Project
- 79% of American adults used the internet in 2009, up from 67% in Feb. 2005
- 46% of online American adults 18 and older use a social networking site like MySpace, Facebook or LinkedIn, up from 8% in February 2005.
- 65% of teens 12-17 use online social networks as of Feb 2008, up from 58% in 2007 and 55% in 2006.
- As of August 2009, Facebook was the most popular online social network for American adults 18 and older.
Of adult SNS users:
- 73% have a Facebook account
- 48% have a MySpace profile
- 14% have an account on LinkedIn
- 1% each on Yahoo, YouTube, Tagged, Flickr and Classmates.com
- 10-12% are on “other” sites like Bebo, Last.FM, Digg, Blackplanet, Orkut, Hi5 and Match.com