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i call bs
reason why some ppl cbf with social networking sites, is having all these accounts with different sites is a
And just a tad more info....
Does your social class determine your online social network?
(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." (What a !)
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.
More specifically, almost 23 percent of Facebook users earn more than $100,000 a year, compared to slightly more than 16 percent of MySpace users. On the other end of the spectrum, 37 percent of MySpace members earn less than $50,000 annually, compared with about 28 percent of Facebook users.
MySpace users tend to be "in middle-class, blue-collar neighborhoods," said Mike Mancini, vice president of data product management for Nielsen, which used an online panel of more than 200,000 social media users in the United States in August. "They're on their way up, or perhaps not college educated."
By contrast, Mancini said, "Facebook [use] goes off the charts in the upscale suburbs," driven by a demographic that for Nielsen is represented by white or Asian married couples between the ages of 45-64 with kids and high levels of education.
Even more affluent are users of Twitter, the microblogging site, and LinkedIn, a networking site geared to white-collar professionals. Almost 38 percent of LinkedIn users earn more than $100,000 a year.
Nielsen also found a strong overlap between those who use Facebook and those who use LinkedIn, Mancini said.
Nielsen isn't the first to find this trend. Ethnographer danah boyd, who does not capitalize her name, said she watched the class divide emerge while conducting research of American teens' use of social networks in 2006.
When she began, she noticed the high school students all used MySpace, but by the end of the school year, they were switching to Facebook.
When boyd asked why, the students replied with reasons similar to Owens: "the features were better; MySpace is dangerous and Facebook is safe; my friends are here," boyd recalled.
And then, boyd said, "a young woman, living in a small historical town in Massachussetts said to me, 'I don't mean to be a racist or anything, but MySpace is like, ghetto.'" For boyd, that's when it clicked.
the rest of the story....(it was a long one)
Social networking by the numbers
Users with household income above $75,000
Facebook -- 41.74 percent
MySpace -- 32.38 percent
LinkedIn -- 58.35 percent
Twitter -- 43.34 percent
Users with household income under $50,000
Facebook -- 28.42 percent
MySpace -- 37.13 percent
LinkedIn -- 17.34 percent
Twitter -- 28.36 percent
Female users
Facebook -- 56.33 percent
MySpace -- 56.69 percent
LinkedIn -- 48.11percent
Twitter -- 53.59 percent
Users aged 18 to 24
Facebook -- 10.27 percent
MySpace -- 15.46 percent
LinkedIn -- 3.99 percent
Twitter -- 9.51percent
Users aged 35 to 49
Facebook -- 31.54 percent
MySpace -- 29.09 percent
LinkedIn -- 43.64 percent
Twitter -- 34.02 percent
Source: The Nielsen Co.
i call bs
reason why some ppl cbf with social networking sites, is having all these accounts with different sites is a
Elitist sucking pricks.
I use Myspace. Find more people I know there. Facebook is for people in college.
which is basically the jist of the article.
I hope they aren't using information straight from peoples' profiles ... my daughter and my nephew both list incomes as $100K+ on MySpace.
The person who wrote that article sounds like a total . Don't let her stop you from joining. You have a right to network with whoever you want to, even if we're in a different social class than you.
I was in target the other day and heard some woman on the phone talking about how she was going to "talk about that all over myspace". I thought it was hilarious because she looked older than me.
I hope they aren't using information straight from peoples' profiles ... my daughter and my nephew both list incomes as $100K+ on MySpace.. That's what I was thinking. They mentioned later (in a section that I didn't copy) that this came from a focus group of 200, 000 + people.
Yeah,she's a
is a good word.
It's pretty accurate. People I know or meet always ask me about Myspace. I've never heard anyone ask me if I have a Facebook. It definitely has to do with the people you know and where you live.
Trust me. REAL richers don't use ANY of that .
I disagree.
OK...I DO know some richer women that use facebook to play games with each other.
No Sherlock. They should put your face on the article every time Myspace is mentioned. Let's see
Lower income - check
ghetto as - check
lives with parents - check
paedophile - check
lack of ambition - check
sig worthyis a good word.
This thread is making me hungry for some .
Pretty interesting. Have both a myspace and facebook account. Defninitly would say there are two different kinds of people.
You know whats ing pathetic is the inability of you people to find physical ways to socialize. Are you so inept that you have to hid behind your pretty little layouts and theme songs as a way to coop with the fact that you're all anti-social losers. Do you really feel so disconnected from reality that you have to desperately seek out the approval of strangers that sound similar to you, but probably aren't nearly as worthless. Do you know what it smells like outside? Do you know what it feels like to just grab a womans ass when she least expects it or do you just know how post clever emoticons depicting your sad state of existence. I despise you all. Except a few. I want to a few of you. PM me...you know who you are.
I despise you all. Except a few. I want to a few of you. PM me...you know who you are.
Are these few the same people or are there some you don't despise, but also don't wish to ?
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