In response to Barry's question. Here's a small random sample of Facebook user local friend networks. Local network friends are only from the user's College or University. n=300 Mean 147 Median 126 Mode 70 Range 10-567 Quartiles 1st 78 2nd 126.5 3rd 192 4th 567 Female n=168 Mean 158 Male n=132 Mean 133 Rob Patton Department of Communication and Center for Information Technology and Society Univerity of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106 patton@cits.ucsb.edu www.cits.ucsb.edu -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Barry Wellman Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 7:42 PM To: aoir list Subject: [Air-l] disjunction The US General Social Survey claims the average American has slightly more than 2 people they discuss important matters with. Our Connected Lives and Pew Strength of Ties studies show somewhat higher numbers (see Hogan, Carrasco & Wellman on our website). But still reckoned by the dozen (or two). When the inevitable reporter calls, how do I reconcile these numbers with the 100-200 or so that folks on this list are saying are Facebook "friends". Does anyone have a distribution of the # of friends per Facebook account: mean, median, mode, quartiles, ranges would be nice too. Barry