sociology of Facebook
Jan. 20th, 2009 08:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fleaI find it hilarious that people are still writing articles about how terrible it is that GROWN-UPS are now on Facebook. I've been on for maybe 18 months. At first my friends were mostly coworkers, but in the last 6 months the alumni explosion has happened. I haven't systematically looked for everyone I knew in high school or college; if I had I'd have even more friends. Right now I have 330 friends, and I just went through the first 100 (alphabetically, which got me into F) ticking off my connections:
Family: 6 (siblings, cousins, bro's fiancee)
Pre-high school: 1
High School: 5
College: 8
Grad School: 10
Old Job: 22
Social Life in Durham (neighbors, la leche league, book club, etc.): 8
Current Job: 5
Social Life in Athens (neighbors, PTO, etc.): 6
Buffistas: 27
Other (mr. flea's old friends, stuff like that): 2
Of the 100, 28 are men. Four are non-white.
The youngest is 14 and the oldest about 65, but the majority of them are between 30 and 40.
Overall I think I have three current college students as friends (two of them my brother and his fiancee). The vast majority of the people I am friends with on Facebook are white upper-middle class professionals in their 30s, several of whom seem to delight in scanning photos from the 1980s and posting them.
Family: 6 (siblings, cousins, bro's fiancee)
Pre-high school: 1
High School: 5
College: 8
Grad School: 10
Old Job: 22
Social Life in Durham (neighbors, la leche league, book club, etc.): 8
Current Job: 5
Social Life in Athens (neighbors, PTO, etc.): 6
Buffistas: 27
Other (mr. flea's old friends, stuff like that): 2
Of the 100, 28 are men. Four are non-white.
The youngest is 14 and the oldest about 65, but the majority of them are between 30 and 40.
Overall I think I have three current college students as friends (two of them my brother and his fiancee). The vast majority of the people I am friends with on Facebook are white upper-middle class professionals in their 30s, several of whom seem to delight in scanning photos from the 1980s and posting them.