which facebook is meant? The North American one? What about facebook in general? then those "ethnic" categories would not work, because, if you take the global perspective, facebook is as diverse as the countries from which its participants come... I find this survey rather limited and of no great use beyond the US/Canada (if that is included anyway). Also, those categories would be useless anywhere else in the world... facebook in Asia - how about asian ethnicities there??? best nilz At 23:34 Uhr +0200 17.12.2009, =?ISO-8859-9?Q?Didem_T=FCrko=F0lu?= wrote:
Personally I found it quite repulsive in terms of using the discourse of diversity (thus reenacting racial and ethnic boundaries) for marketing purposes. Am I overpessimistic? Didem
2009/12/17 live <human.factor.one@gmail.com>
I found it quite interesting. I was intrigued and surprised by the relative saturation of Asian users.
(Btw Facebook's sociologist is Cameron from MIT Media Lab, and they sourced from Census Genealogy and used mixture modeling, so I feel comfortable about how the data was gathered and used.)
-Sharon
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On Dec 17, 2009, at 3:57 AM, Seda Guerses wrote:
i am very curious to hear what people on this list think of this note from facebook? s.
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=205925658858&id=8394258414&ref=mf
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