Still wondering what kind of person gets on Facebook? I’ve been telling this to my friends for a year, and now the data seems to be showing the same thing: social network users are on social networks because their friends are! And, I’ll bet that the reason more people don’t use these social media sites more often is because they are already connecting with those same friends in real-life or in other ways that suit them just fine.
I don’t care what the experts say. Nobody can have more best friends. One person can only sustain a small number of close, deep friendships. Social networking my be able to extend your number of acquaintances and people you have the potential to be really good friends with, but that’s about it.
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Who Uses Social Networks and What Are They Like? (Part 1) – Annotated
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Social networkers are not as interested in friending strangers or creating "fake" friends to boost their ego. Out of the group, 45% connect only to family and friends and another 18% will connect only to people they’ve met in person.
- This is what I tell people who are so cynical about social networking. They think that college students and teens are just on these sites looking for new friends, or friending anyone they make contact with. But nobody I know has ever done that. It’s much simpler than that. It’s a network — my friend told me about it, I told my friend, and she told her friend. – post by jarrodmartin1
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Also interesting is that only 15% of social networkers say they log on at work, thus debunking another myth about how prevalent social network use is at the workplace.
- I wonder if this included cell phone activity? SMS is now my "drug" of choice for Twitter updates and Facebook conversations. – post by jarrodmartin1
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