• Study: Women are for more likely to receive FB friend invites, Men are far more likely to send them,
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[QUOTE]Most Facebook users get more from it than they put in, study says[/QUOTE] [table="width: 1100, class: grid"] [tr] [td][QUOTE]The Pew Research Internet Project released a report about Facebook on Friday, providing insights into the company that you won't find in its IPO filing. Rather than focusing on the company's financials, the report "Why Most Facebook Users Get More Than They Give" sheds light on how Facebook's 845 million users engage with Facebook and what they get out of it. The findings show that social interactions on Facebook closely mirror social interactions in the real world. For example, over the course of a one-month period, researchers found that women made an average of 11 updates to their Facebook status, while men averaged only six. Also, women were more likely to comment on other people's status updates than men. "There was a general trend in our data that women use Facebook more than men," said Keith Hampton, a professor at Rutgers and lead author of the report. "This is a phenomenon that is not unique to Facebook. Women are traditionally in charge of social relationships offline, and that seems to be true of the online world as well." [B]The report says men are more likely to send friend requests and women are more likely to receive them. That's something else we see in the real world -- especially in bars. [/B] The report also says that most people who use Facebook get more out of it than they put into it, which may explain why they keep coming back. Researchers found that 40% of Facebook users in a sample group made a friend request, while 63% received at least one friend request. They found that 12% of the sample tagged a friend in a photo, but 35% were themselves tagged in a photo. And each user in the sample clicked the "like" button next to a friend's content an average of 14 times but had his or her own content 'liked' an average of 20 times. Why the imbalance? "There is this 20% to 30% who are extremely active who are giving more than they are getting, and they are so active they are making up for feeding everyone extra stuff," Hampton said. "You might go on Facebook and post something and have time to click 'like' on one thing you see in your news feed, but then you get a whole bunch of 'likes' on your news feed. That's because of this very active group." He also said extremely active users tend to have a niche: Some are really into friending, others are really into tagging photos, and still others click the 'like' button a lot. Rarely is any one user extreme in all those ways. I asked Hampton what he could tell me about these extremely active people, whom he calls Facebook "power users." Are they unstoppably social? Unemployed? Lonely? "It could be people who are always active -- whatever they are doing in their life, they are very active. Or it could be that just in the one month we observed them they are active and another month a different group of people would rise up," he said. "It could be that there is something going on in their life that causes them to be very active, or it could be that some people think of it almost as a job to be active on Facebook."[/QUOTE][/td] [td][IMG]http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef016300a7aa3e970d-600wi[/IMG][/td] [/tr] [/table] [url]http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2012/02/facebook-pew.html[/url]
Holy balls that TITLE! [editline]4th February 2012[/editline] Also no shit :v:
Wow, breaking news everyone.
I wait until women send me friend requests, since I think that they'll be put off if I do it first.
New Study: Who gives a shit?
In other news, I got 40 likes for a photo was ripped off reddit Do I get some sort of news article?
Must be an easy job to conduct these studies.
Oh man, this was a great read. No seriously, no one cares.
Thought you were suppose to put the article in the post, not the title :v:
[QUOTE=Source;34537384]New Study: Who gives a shit?[/QUOTE] Sociologists
this isn't news
In other news: Male users are most likely to stalk other people.
[quote]For example, over the course of a one-month period, researchers found that women made an average of 11 updates to their Facebook status, while men averaged only six. [/quote] Shit I'm more like a woman I updated my status 25 times in January, half of them being shit I'm linking and the other half being really sarcastic stuff :(((
To be fair this does help to confirm the concept that women have it easier to attract mates
Yeah I mostly update my facebook with links normally to music. I updated my status 4 times in January. I rarely add people. Only have 157 friends on facebook. I don't really need anymore, in reality you only ever need a few real mates. [editline]4th February 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Clementine;34547065]To be fair this does help to confirm the concept that women have it easier to attract mates[/QUOTE] No it confirms men are more forward. Females have it easier to attract mates because of the way men act and go about things.
[QUOTE=Doozle;34547103]Yeah I mostly update my facebook with links normally to music. I updated my status 4 times in January. I rarely add people. Only have 157 friends on facebook. I don't really need anymore, in reality you only ever need a few real mates. [editline]4th February 2012[/editline] No it confirms men are more forward. Females have it easier to attract mates because of the way men act and go about things.[/QUOTE] ...Yeah...which means they have it easier to attract males.
[QUOTE=Clementine;34548340]...Yeah...which means they have it easier to attract males.[/QUOTE] Well in all fairness it doesn't really mean anything for women in specific, more like things men can potentially be attracted to in general.
Thanks to my social akwardness I wait for the women to add me first, unless it there is an obvious reason for me adding them first.
[QUOTE=A B.A. Survivor;34537211]I wait until women send me friend requests, since I think that they'll be put off if I do it first.[/QUOTE] Facebook isn't a good way to start a relationship. And if you want to be friends, then you shouldn't have to wait.
facebook is actually useful if you're looking for someone to date
I go to Facebook to post snarky comments on annoying statuses, and occasionally make bad MS Paint tracings of profile pictures. I do this because I think it's very funny. Some people don't understand. [IMG_thumb]http://i1115.photobucket.com/albums/k553/BigDumbAmerican/ZP_1.jpg[/IMG_thumb] [IMG_thumb]http://i1115.photobucket.com/albums/k553/BigDumbAmerican/SG_1.jpg[/IMG_thumb] [IMG_thumb]http://i1115.photobucket.com/albums/k553/BigDumbAmerican/LH_1.jpg[/IMG_thumb] [IMG_thumb]http://i1115.photobucket.com/albums/k553/BigDumbAmerican/BC_1.jpg[/IMG_thumb] [IMG_thumb]http://i1115.photobucket.com/albums/k553/BigDumbAmerican/AM_1.jpg[/IMG_thumb] [editline]4th February 2012[/editline] Whoops, I forgot one. [IMG_thumb]http://i1115.photobucket.com/albums/k553/BigDumbAmerican/EM_1.jpg[/IMG_thumb] [editline]4th February 2012[/editline] What's the percentage of people who use Facebook for this?
Only 31%
For me it's the opposite. I keep getting friend requests from weird mentally unstable women I don't know. [QUOTE=A B.A. Survivor;34537211]I wait until women send me friend requests, since I think that they'll be put off if I do it first.[/QUOTE] It's a friend request, not a marriage proposal.
[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;34549198]I go to Facebook to post snarky comments on annoying statuses, and occasionally make bad MS Paint tracings of profile pictures. I do this because I think it's very funny. Some people don't understand. [IMG_thumb]http://i1115.photobucket.com/albums/k553/BigDumbAmerican/ZP_1.jpg[/IMG_thumb] [IMG_thumb]http://i1115.photobucket.com/albums/k553/BigDumbAmerican/SG_1.jpg[/IMG_thumb] [IMG_thumb]http://i1115.photobucket.com/albums/k553/BigDumbAmerican/LH_1.jpg[/IMG_thumb] [IMG_thumb]http://i1115.photobucket.com/albums/k553/BigDumbAmerican/BC_1.jpg[/IMG_thumb] [IMG_thumb]http://i1115.photobucket.com/albums/k553/BigDumbAmerican/AM_1.jpg[/IMG_thumb] [editline]4th February 2012[/editline] Whoops, I forgot one. [IMG_thumb]http://i1115.photobucket.com/albums/k553/BigDumbAmerican/EM_1.jpg[/IMG_thumb] [editline]4th February 2012[/editline] What's the percentage of people who use Facebook for this?[/QUOTE] Reminds me of this. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMMsDbB316Q[/media]
[QUOTE=overpain;34546847]In other news: Male users are most likely to stalk other people.[/QUOTE] For the most part,from what I experience seems like girls and guys are almost the same when it comes to stalking people's facebook.(in my area). I don't know if I should be creeped out or flattered that someone is stalking me on facebook.
[QUOTE=Matrix374;34557761]For the most part,from what I experience seems like girls and guys are almost the same when it comes to stalking people's facebook.(in my area). I don't know if I should be creeped out or flattered that someone is stalking me on facebook.[/QUOTE] It all depends on why they're stalking you I guess.
Because most men want to stick their dick in anything.
All I get from facebook is an unhealthy exposure to an incredible amount of stupidity. It's always slightly disturbing to see people my age or younger with several kids and no job or husband (that's an interesting point, I never see single fathers, interpret that how you will). And I'm sure we've all posted an update of something impressive or important (latest and greatest of science, major political events, personal achievement), which will never get more than one or two comments. Whereas posting some inane horseshit or an example of how fucked up you were the previous night will get a torrent of equally stupid attention. I've often wondered what the cause behind it is.
[QUOTE=Source;34537384]New Study: Who gives a shit?[/QUOTE] New Study: Find out WHY no one gives a shit? :v: [editline]5th February 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=QwertySecond;34559570]All I get from facebook is an unhealthy exposure to an incredible amount of stupidity. It's always slightly disturbing to see people my age or younger with several kids and no job or husband (that's an interesting point, I never see single fathers, interpret that how you will). And I'm sure we've all posted an update of something impressive or important (latest and greatest of science, major political events, personal achievement), which will never get more than one or two comments. Whereas posting some inane horseshit or an example of how fucked up you were the previous night will get a torrent of equally stupid attention. I've often wondered what the cause behind it is.[/QUOTE] Idiocracy taking place in real life. :v:
[QUOTE=Crpto2007;34549041]facebook is actually useful if you're looking for someone to date[/QUOTE] Except you already know about their interests, their employment, where they were educated, what books they like, what television they like, what their friends are like, what she tends to do every day - leaving little room for conversation.
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