[LINK] More Hargittai on Social Networkin

[rfmcdonald]

I'd like to thank Eszter Hargittai for making an appearance in the comments for my [LINK] yesterday to her post on social networking. It seems that the differences between Facebook and MySpace users might be even greater.

As I mention in the post on Crooked Timber (as an update in the comments), the particulars of the sample (that both age and educational level of the respondents is close to constant) likely means that the findings are more conservative than if you had a more diverse sample. That is, if we're going to see socioeconomic status differences (measured here by parental education) even among this group then we're likely to see even larger such differences if we had people from more diverse backgrounds.