Online Communities

By,

Cody Grasso

Myspace

Myspace is one of the world’s largest social networks with about 125 million users today.

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Facebook

Facebook is a larger social network than myspace, containing more than 350 million active users today.

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Cell phones

86 percent of Americans own a cell phone.

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Survey Analysis

1.) Do you own a myspace or facebook account?

-16 answers for yes and 4 answers for no.

2.) How often do you update your account?

- 7 answers for everyday- 2 answers for more than once a day- 4 answers for once every other day- 3 answers for once a week

Survey Analysis

3.) Do your parents know about your myspace/facebook account?

-14 answers for yes and 2 answers for no.

4.)Do you own a cell phone?-18 answers for yes and 2 answers for no.

Survey Analysis

5.) How often do you text?- 2 answers for every hour- 1 answer for every half-hour- 6 answers for every minute- 8 answers for everyday- 3 do not apply

Survey Analysis

6.)Could you Survive without a cell phone or checking on your myspace or facebook account?

- 7 answers for yes, 13 answers for no.

7.) Do you think that meeting somebody over texting or the use of the Internet is becoming more popular than meeting somebody in person?

-16 answers for yes, 4 answers for no.

Survey Analysis

8.) Have you ever met face to face with somebody that you have only talked to via Internet or texting?

-8 answers for yes, 12 answers for no

9.) On average, how many text do you send or receive a month?

- answers range from 500-7,000

Survey Analysis

10.) Has the Internet and the use of texting ever negatively effected you?

- 6 answers for yes, 14 answers for no.

11.) Do you think the use of Internet/texting is a problem with teens?

-13 answers for yes, 7 answers for no

This shows how fast facebook has grown compared to both Myspace

and Twitter

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This shows the users of facebook by age

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This shows the amount of texts sent a year

http://www.cellsigns.com/industry.shtml

This shows the total growth of texts a month

sent

http://www.cellsigns.com/industry.shtml

Conclusion By giving the survey to twenty students from West Seneca West Senior, I have came to conclusion that the majority of teens own cell phones, text everyday, own either a myspace or a facebook, and use all of that in their daily lives. It is not necessarily a bad thing, or a good thing. It is now become part of a teens life. This ties into the novel twisted because rumors and pictures were viewed via internet and it is very likely that the same thing could happen today with the amount of teens that use the internet and text.

Works cited

“Crunchbase.” Myspace. 1/08/10.www.crunchbase.com

“Pressroom.” Statistics. 1/08/10. www.facebook.com

“cmchmentors” Cell Phones. 1/08/10. <www.cmch.tv>