Subject: [DW] New Pew Internet report: Why most Facebook users get more than they give From: Steven Clift <[email protected]> To: [email protected]
A political excerpt of special interest to DoWire members is below ... From: Lee Rainie <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 8:28 AM Subject: New Pew Internet report: Why most Facebook users get more than they give Dear Steve I thought you might be interested in findings weâve just released that surprised us for several reasons: ·        People get more from their Facebook friends than they give ·        Your friends on Facebook have more friends than you do ·        Friendship networks on Facebook are very sparse â their density is only 12% ·        The reach of Facebook users is pretty amazing â the median user can reach 31,000+ friends and friends of those friends; the average user can reach 150,000+ folks Our report is here http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Facebook-users.aspx. .. http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Facebook-users/Part-3-The-Structure-of-Friendship/The-Structure-of-Frienship.aspx Having more friends and being added to groups is associated with attending political meetings One of the most substantive and perhaps surprising findings from our report on Social Networking Sites and Our Lives [1] was the strong relationship between the use of Facebook and various forms of political participation. We found that heavy Facebook users were much more likely to attend political rallies and meetings, to try to influence someone they know to vote for a specific candidate, and to vote or intend to vote. Data on use of specific Facebook activities adds further clarification to our original findings. A wide range of activities on Facebook were found to be associated with attending political meetings (see Appendix A: Table 8). Although the relatively weak relationship, the number of activities associated with attending political meetings is very high. Those users who have more friends, have more friends of friends, were either added to a Facebook group or added someone else to a group, sent more personal messages, received more wall posts, tagged a friend in a photo, or were tagged themselves in a photo, were more likely to report that they attended a political meeting or rally. Those added to Facebook groups are more likely to try to persuade someone to vote for a specific candidate Other political activities, such as voting and trying to influence others to vote for a specific candidate, are associated with a more specific set of Facebook activities. Participation in Facebook groups, either by being added to a group or adding someone else, was weakly associated with trying to influence someone to vote in a specific way (see Appendix A: Table 9). While we did find that Facebook users are more likely to vote in general [1], we did not uncover any specific Facebook activity that was associated with a higher likelihood of voting. Rather, we found that some activities were weakly associated with not voting â such as having a friend request accepted (see Appendix A: Table 10). We do not have a complete explanation for why Facebook users in general are more likely to vote, but we found that this tendency is slightly lower among those who have more friend requests accepted or post links on the site. _______________________________________________ Linux-sohbet mailing list [email protected] https://liste.linux.org.tr/mailman/listinfo/linux-sohbet Liste kurallari: http://liste.linux.org.tr/kurallar.php
