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Socioeconomic Status Predicts Number of Facebook Friends
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New research from the University of Virginia and London Business School says that your socioeconomic status correlates with the size of your social network on Facebook.
Wealthier individuals, they found, tend to have larger and shallower networks of friends. After living in in multiple places throughout their lives, these individuals tend to have different groups of friends. On the contrary, less well-off Facebook users have fewer friends because they tend to stay in the same place. Their groups are typically smaller and more intimate.
“In the age of Facebook, many Americans seem to opt for a broad, shallow networking strategy,” the study s… Continue reading…
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2012-12-20 17:03:34
Source: http://someit.com/2012/12/20/socioeconomic-status-predicts/
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