ReadWriteWeb: You Are What You Like (And Not What Your Friends Like) On Facebook [STUDY].
“What the most recent study suggests is that online friendships like those fostered on Facebook are more about strengthening ties between people with similar interests than they are about influencing neighbors.” Entrenching, not broadening. I’ve come across some hard, hard social media folk ... so I suspected as much.
Comments:
Good point. See my post about ‘serendipity’ today. Same sort of deal, if rather tangential.
Posted by Garret P Vreeland on 01/10/12 at 01:31 PM
I think this is more a critique of FB’s design (or lack thereof) versus drawing social implications. It’s incredibly difficult to have a conversation on FB (inability to highlight/link text, etc).