socialmedian: More Proof: Facebook for the Rich, MySpace for the Poor

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More Proof: Facebook for the Rich, MySpace for the Poor

Source: ReadWriteWeb

Sep 28, 2009

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Oh how the mighty have fallen. The one time king of social networks, MySpace, now has the honor of being the site where the less affluent members of the online population stake their claims by way of bedazzled profiles overrun with auto-playing videos and songs. Meanwhile, the upscale, financially solvent users have moved on - and by moved on, we mean to Facebook, of course. At least those are the findings of the latest social networking study done by American consumer behavior analysis firm Nielsen Claritas.

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By no means is this the first time that the demographics of today's social networks have been scrutinized and analyzed by researchers, nor is it the first time that they've come to this same conclusion. Earlier this summer, for example, Anderson Analytics looked into this same topic, studying trends among social networking users on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and LinkedIn. They found that Facebook users tend to be better off financially, while MySpace users' income was the lowest out of the four networks studied.

Those claims are now being further

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