Journal of Information Science
Analysis of terrorist social networks with fractal views
Journal of Information Science
Data mining emotion in social network communication: Gender differences in MySpace
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Gender and role differences in family-based healthy living networks
CHI '10 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
With a little help from my friends: Self-interested and prosocial behavior on MySpace Music
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Perspectives on grid computing
Future Generation Computer Systems
MySpace is your space? Examining self-presentation of MySpace users
Computers in Human Behavior
Factors mediating disclosure in social network sites
Computers in Human Behavior
Measurement and gender-specific analysis of user publishing characteristics on myspace
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
Online social network profile data extraction for vulnerability analysis
International Journal of Internet Technology and Secured Transactions
Exploring gender differences in member profiles of an online dating site across 35 countries
MSM'10/MUSE'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Analysis of social media and ubiquitous data
Competitivity groups on social network sites
Mathematical and Computer Modelling: An International Journal
Confessional methods and everyday life information seeking
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
Characteristics and usage patterns of older people in a 3D online multi-user virtual environment
Computers in Human Behavior
Accomplishing authenticity in a labor-exposing space
Computers in Human Behavior
Twitter, MySpace, Digg: Unsupervised Sentiment Analysis in Social Media
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST)
Understanding social network site users' privacy tool use
Computers in Human Behavior
"I need to try this"?: a statistical overview of pinterest
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Learning potential in youth's online networks: A multilevel approach
Computers & Education
Specialization, homophily, and gender in a social curation site: findings from pinterest
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing
Visiting theories that predict college students' self-disclosure on Facebook
Computers in Human Behavior
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In 2007, the social networking Web site MySpace apparently overthrew Google as the most visited Web site for U.S. Web users. If this heralds a new era of widespread online social networking, then it is important to investigate user behaviour and attributes. Although there has been some research into social networking already, basic demographic data is essential to set previous results in a wider context and to give insights to researchers, marketers and developers. In this article, the demographics of MySpace members are explored through data extracted from two samples of 15,043 and 7,627 member profiles. The median declared age of users was surprisingly high at 21, with a small majority of females. The analysis confirmed some previously reported findings and conjectures about social networking, for example, that female members tend to be more interested in friendship and males more interested in dating. In addition, there was some evidence of three different friending dynamics, oriented towards close friends, acquaintances, or strangers. Perhaps unsurprisingly, female and younger members had more friends than others, and females were more likely to maintain private profiles, but both males and females seemed to prefer female friends, with this tendency more marked in females for their closest friend. The typical MySpace user is apparently female, 21, single, with a public profile, interested in online friendship and logging on weekly to engage with a mixed list of mainly female “friends” who are predominantly acquaintances. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.