The second friend I looked at was another one of my good friends. They are quite the opposite of the first facebook I stalked. His facebook updates happen rather quickly everyday and I can expect about 10 updates throughout the day. These updates I have noticed are not his own words but lyrics from songs that he has listened to that may or may not apply to his life at the time. His friend count is astronomical and posts on his wall happen on a daily if not hourly basis. I tend to think he creates this popularity by drawing attention to himself through his baby girl that has just turned 2. I think a baby is a very good way of drawing attention to yourself if you are wanting it.
Lastly I decided to look at a friend that I have not talked to in a while and wanted to see what was up with his life. I first looked at his friend count, pretty much like the second facebook profile, and this allowed me to conclude that he is fairly popular, at least on facebook. A little different from the two other people, his updates happen once a week maybe twice. He uses his IPhone as a means of facebook rather the computer which I thought was more interesting than any other information I found out on him. I found his profile to be more of a work place rather than a friend tool. His status' display how he finished work or his work, his wall posts are friends from work rather than friends that aren't from work. I think this was interesting to see a business facebook rather than a social networking friendship page.
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I think bringing up the popularity concept is interesting. I think there are honestly two different types of popular. There is the traditional view of popularity that we know of people who hang out/associate with a lot of people are are very recognizable within there community. Then there is the new internet popular where people "hang out"/ associate with a lot of people and are recognizable within their community. Would you consider both valid forms of popularity? Which popularity is more important?
ReplyDeleteI think that's interesting to point out the iPhone updates, I noticed that too. It's funny that they update constantly from their phone, in my opinions I think that means they think about facebook more often than most because it's not just when they happen to log on, it's a part of your daily activities on the go, something you're always thinking about.
ReplyDeletei like the diversity of people you research. It's interesting what people post to make themselves feel special. It's an weird concept how much people want to post their lives for everyone to see
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