Week 4

For some primary research, I decided to watch the types of Facebook statuses that 3 randomly chosen people had been posting. I also looked at their activity on other peoples profiles and the general activity they decided to show.

Person 1: Female, 792 facebook friends

All within a week period, 5 profile picture changes [all either posed or on a night out] within this space she had posted at least 7 posts a day talking about money, going out, her planned trip, how other people find her attractive, alcohol and moaning she has no friends. Also commented on every person she could status eg. Someone asked a friend how she was doing and she jumped in on the status saying hi to the original poster and then taking over the comments to put forward how well she's doing. She also particularly took the piss out of one ‘friend’ by posting embarrassing pictures/comments and involving other people in commenting on them, in the process of picking on other members of the group who don’t have facebook.

Person 2: Female, 1550 facebook friends

Average of at least 10-15 posts a day- tend to be contridictary. Eg. About how much she loves this guy, now he wont pay attention to her, that she doesn’t need a relationship and then again is upset and blames all males. At least one new picture of herself is posted everyday, if no comments, she asks for them or reposts the picture. Lots of attention seeking posts saying so sad ‘she could cry’.

Person 3: Male, 2241 facebook friends

Average of 1-2 posts every 1-2 days. Tend to be funny and witty statuses with lots of attention (average of 60+ likes). Tends to draw on popular culture, internet trends or current affairs so there is a common ground with people. He also tends to ‘poke fun’ at the usual facebook updates and comments from annoying people on his feed.