I can only speak as a user, but I would be extremely cautious about the relationships status area. People often list fictitous relationships that are in-jokes between friends. About half the time 'in a relationship' is correct, but of the 5 people who I am friended with and are listed as married, only 1 actually is. Also, now that it doesn't restrict for school emails, people can make fake accounts, or accounts for pets. As an example, I made a facebook account for my iguana who has a hometown of "In the corner next to the snakes, IL" and is listed as married to my roommate. As for location, hometown, political, and religion, I can't really say much other than it is not uncommon to see people put in joking answers. On 5/30/07, Alexander Semenov <semenoffalex@googlemail.com> wrote:
Hello everyone, recently I was surfing Russian facebook-clone vkontakte.ru and decided to count statistics of political preferences. I don't consider my results to be valid, so I've decided to ask about any thoughts, articles etc. on the validity of blogs as a source of socio-demographic data (age, gender, location, political and religious preferences etc.). While I think that other interests such as music, reading, films etc. are quite reliable I can't say the same about socio-demographic data. What do you think? Thanks in advance. Best wishes, Alexander Semenov. MA student Faculty of Sociology Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (MSSES) http://www.msses.ru/English/index.html _______________________________________________ The air-l@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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