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Well Duh: People Who Use Social Networking Tend To Have Larger Social Circles
from the we-needed-research-for-that? dept
While I guess there are still some people who think that sitting around on your computer isn't "interacting" with other people, I would have thought that the myth that computer users are loners died off a long time ago. However, apparently we still need studies to debunk that. The latest, from Annenberg and Pew found that people who use social networks have a larger social circle than those who don't. And, no, the study didn't just count how many friends you have on Facebook, but found out from people the number of people with whom they felt comfortable talking over important issues. That number was noticeably higher for those who used modern technology more frequently. So again, even though I had thought the stereotype died off ages ago, here's a bit more evidence that being an internet geek doesn't mean you're a loner.
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"Majority of people in McDonald's Drive-thru line are hungry"
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In other news
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People who (actively) use Facebook and other social networking sites are more likely to be social people to begin with.
People who don't actively use social networking sites have smaller or equal social circles compared to some point in the past.
The study also says that social circles are about 1/3 smaller than they were in 1985 (four years after the first IBM PC, the year after the Mac). So the social circles of Facebookers, while larger than those of non-Facebookers, are still smaller than comparable circles 25 years ago.
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A Real Research Question
Of those people, HOW MANY DARN SOCIAL NETWORKS do they belong to?
I am really interested in your thoughts. What is YOUR reason for being social online and how many networks do you belong to?
Matt Fredric
Discovering my Social Identity 2.0 (Whatever that means.)
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"FB User" != "Internet Geek"
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Social Networking Research
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