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Persistence, searchability, replicability, and invisible audiences are all properties that participants must negotiate when on social network sites. While this paper will address social network sites and Friendship broadly, two case studies – Friendster and MySpace – will dominate the discussion.
1 sty 2008 · We study MySpace through a comparative study over three different, but related, facets: (i) the sociability of users in MySpace based on relationship, messaging, and group participation; (ii)...
30 gru 2010 · Social network sites such as MySpace, Facebook, Windows Live Spaces, Orkut and Hi5 have attracted millions of users; many of them have integrated their daily practices with these sites. Therefore...
My data includes interviews, participant observation, blog commentary, survey responses, focus groups, mailing list discussions, bulletin posts, and profile material.2 The vast majority of my subjects and those that I observed are 14-30; my study of minors only began when I started examining MySpace.
MySpace was created in 2002 and in its relatively short life has accumulated over 150 million users world-wide (MySpace, n.d). This means that anyone joining MySpace today has immediate access to a network of millions of other users, or ‘friends,’ as MySpace calls them. But what does friendship involve on MySpace? What does it mean?
MySpace profiles contain a “Top Friends” list, in which individuals designate a subset of their friends as “Top Friends” and organize these friends in a ranked order.
MySpace Sample We wrote software to collect a sample of approximately 11 mil-lion MySpace profiles, including demographic data (age, sex, geographic location; see Fig. S1 at...
