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Intresting note from the study: "...young people with college experience are significantly more likely to have Facebook accounts than non-college respondents,

• pyre 17y ago
  > "...young people with college experience are significantly more likely to have Facebook accounts than non-college respondents, and significantly less likely to have MySpace accounts. It’s also more common for young people with college experience to rely on Web-based media for their news." Why is that interesting? Most people outside of college were introduced to social networking through MySpace. Most people inside of college were introduced to social networking through Facebook (when Facebook started out you needed to have a .edu email address to register; it was for university students only). Most people that have college experience probably lived in a dorm for some length of time, where they had relatively cheap, fast internet service; therefore they are more likely to be using the internet to take care of things like getting their news. I don't think that you really need a study to get this information, though real-world data never hurts.
  • stse 17y ago
    It's interesting because it's, as you said, real-world data. Where I live facebook wasn't available nor popular during the ".edu only"-era. Here Internet access is cheap and fast for most people so I would also imagine college attendees get more of their news from newspapers and other non-based source then non-college attendees, because of the academic focus at college.