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Does Facebook count almost throughout the world on this day 80 millions of users, majoritairement of people between 20 and 30 years. But this type of network does really permit to increase the exchanges or only to duplicate them? Facebook: a passionate tool
Found in 2004 by former students of the university of Harvard and first reserved to an internal use, Facebook is quickly himself open to the other American universities. Since September 2006, that can become a Facebook user in the world. To recover friends of childhood, to tell itself/themselves gossips, to throw some invitations, to share his photos but also to announce a conference or to redo the world: Does Facebook allow you all to make? or more or less. However, if this fabulous interface seems to annul the distances and to make fi of the time that passes, it doesn't promise for as much the equality of the social odds.
Popular doubling. or not
Thus, a recent survey done on 172 students of Louisiana of which a majority of regular users of Facebook, watch that the lone people have as tendency to be less very integrated in the virtual social network. Actually, the Facebook users who show the anxiety in the social contacts are at a time those that pass the more of time on the site. and that have the less Facebook friends. The virtual community is not therefore, by far, a tool of social justice that would allow everybody to have some friends! On the contrary, he/it seems that Facebook first benefits the outgoing individuals, the same that can be proud of a big number of friends in the true life. By one virtual sleight of hand, these meet popular doubling therefore, while those remain by two times put of side.
To connect of boredom
The survey also reveals that the site is not, as could think it those that don't use it, a tool whose only goal would be to make some meetings. Actually, the reasons to have a Facebook profile don't miss. The majority of the students having participated in the survey returns indeed that one of the goals is to verify the regards in the real life. Otherwise, to spend the time or merely to deceive the boredom is often mentioned like reasons to connect, all as the fact to remain in contact with his friends. Finally, a number more restricted of users tell to use Facebook for the possibilities of meetings in love or to tempt to make acquaintance with more interesting people. that in the real life.
Of the various uses
In fact, the users of Facebook don't have all same use of the site. One of the students enrolled in the survey returns as well as she knows "in the true life" each of this 100 Facebooks friends. Another tells that she uses the site to remain in contact with his friends of school living in Romania, where she grew. She adds that she reserves e-mails to work, and Facebook to the friends. Finally, Scott Golder that worked like researcher on the fashions of use of Facebook, concludes with wisdom: "For the best or for the worse, Facebook allows each to remain in contact with all those that he knew. During the different stages of life, people tend indeed to change group of friends. They lose contact and become sometimes strangers. That that, sometimes, is a healthy thing."
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