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<blockquote data-quote="geek" data-source="post: 2097"><img src="http://valleywag.com/assets/resources/Picture%20305-2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Here&#039;s the data one would need to underline the demographic differences between <a href="http://valleywag.com/tech/facebook/" target="_blank">Facebook</a> and <a href="http://valleywag.com/tech/myspace/" target="_blank">Myspace</a> users. (<a href="http://valleywag.com/tech/facebook-v-myspace/the-shaky-sociology-of-social-networks-272038.php" target="_blank">We were not satisfied by the methodology of Danah Boyd&#039;s &quot;study&quot; even if the initial presumption was accurate</a>.) Mark Zuckerberg&#039;s social network, as one would expect from a site which began as an online facebook for Ivy League universities, has significantly more users with household incomes over $75,000 a year. These numbers are from Comscore and understate the income divide between the two <a href="http://valleywag.com/tech/social-networks/" target="_blank">social networks</a>. Low-rent Myspace has more middle-aged users, who lift up its household income average. Anyone out there have time to control for age?<a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~a/valleywag/full?a=8WfISw" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.gawker.com/~a/valleywag/full?i=8WfISw" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />&lt;/img&gt;</a><a href="http://valleywag.com/tech/the-chart/measuring-the-social-network-divide-272091.php" target="_blank">More...</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="geek, post: 2097"] [IMG]http://valleywag.com/assets/resources/Picture%20305-2.jpg[/IMG]Here's the data one would need to underline the demographic differences between [URL="http://valleywag.com/tech/facebook/"]Facebook[/URL] and [URL="http://valleywag.com/tech/myspace/"]Myspace[/URL] users. ([URL="http://valleywag.com/tech/facebook-v-myspace/the-shaky-sociology-of-social-networks-272038.php"]We were not satisfied by the methodology of Danah Boyd's "study" even if the initial presumption was accurate[/URL].) Mark Zuckerberg's social network, as one would expect from a site which began as an online facebook for Ivy League universities, has significantly more users with household incomes over $75,000 a year. These numbers are from Comscore and understate the income divide between the two [URL="http://valleywag.com/tech/social-networks/"]social networks[/URL]. Low-rent Myspace has more middle-aged users, who lift up its household income average. Anyone out there have time to control for age?[URL="http://feeds.gawker.com/~a/valleywag/full?a=8WfISw"][IMG]http://feeds.gawker.com/~a/valleywag/full?i=8WfISw[/IMG]</img>[/URL] [url=http://valleywag.com/tech/the-chart/measuring-the-social-network-divide-272091.php]More...[/url] [/QUOTE]

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