I found the readins once again basically restored all of my original thoughts in the online world as far as gender goes, According to Huffaker/Calvert Men are much shorter, are more paranoid of someone watching or getting their personal information and we (men) don't use emoticons as much, I personally think thats crap because I use them all the time and just about everyone I know does as well. >0
Also blogs are used in the Gay community to express words without being subjected to hate speech from someone who doesn't understand. The blogs are a great way for gay males especially to meet and not be worried about what someone around them may do or say in public. 17% of the blogging community is gay and of that 17% 14% are male... That just goes to show you who is more accepted in the realm of society, and it also shows you how males use the Internet to meet other gay males in almost secrecy. In 50% of the roughly 500k blogs researched relationships were talked about. The majority of this population was male! surprised me... But the majority of gender on blogs are male so I guess that makes a little more sense.
The amount of information people put on blogs is amazing, 70% of people gave, get this, first names 68% age, 61% gave their CONTACT INFORMATION! And at the bottom of the list "full name" It's amazing that someone would be willing, in fact 61%, would be willing to give their location before their real names, kinda scary as well as just plain stupid.
When reading about the amount of post that African Americans, whizzles, Latinos and Indians post shocked me heavily! I do not have a very equal ground to stand on but the friends I have post just about everything they do it's actually quite disturbing. Also with the pictures, were they looking at mostly male pages or female? Did they count tagged pictures? Were there even "Tagged" pictures when this was done? I myself have over 300 pictures on my facebook... I have probably uploaded only 50...I think what I am trying to say is NONE of this information can be considered accurate because facebook is evolving daily and to be able to say "aww aww one race puts up more than another" is VERY ridiculous.
I personally don't think these sites effect gender or race regardless of what this or any study says. I feel as though the internet is an arena where people can be themselves and race (though in some situations is WAY outta control on the internet, IE Videos of black people looting or a white cult leader, sure they draw the racism out of people, and boy it can be nasty) but the other sides of the internet seem to be VERY colorblind as far as my experience. Take the class blog for example, I didn't know the students names at first I Was just reading post, I had no idea what anyone was, they were nothing more than other students to me. This is the outlook that I have always had on the internet because how or who are we to judge someone that we know nothing about, including their race.
"However, ethno-racial groups invest differently in their displays of “the cultural self.” African Americans and Latinos invest most intensively, Vietnamese and whites least intensively, and Indians fall somewhere in the middle of the continuum depending on the enumerated item." Grasmuck 2009
I found this statement to be very funny. In my personal experience with this it's because, quite frankly... I could give a crap about my heritage... I don't even know what I am?? I mean Im considered "white" to the masses but what am I really? I don't know... This is why I think white people don't put as much information about their cultural lifestyle because it's just not as important to us... I know I have Indian in me but how much? I have no idea... Irish? Sure... How much ? I have no idea... At least if you are black/latino/Indian you know what you are and can embrace some sort of heritage/culture... When you're a white mutt, what do you have to talk about when it comes to history that doesn't somewhat embarrass me? ... Not a whole lot... Also not to mention we don't have a great deal of culture to us now do me? We're kinda bland int hat regard... I just felt that would be the common answer to why this statement is the way it is.
-Dizzle droppin knizzle fo shizzle...
I kind of said the same thing in my post in that i was just reading posts and not really looking at who was posting! It just doesn't concern me so much that i need to know the race and color of the person posting! All i care about is that there are 5 people posting so i can comment on them all hah! In other online sites however like if i was chatting one on one with someone getting to know them i would want to immediately try to figure out what their background was.
ReplyDeleteSo true! I believe these sites are just for fun and entertainment. I believe the different sites that are offer are for people that are lonely and need a friend. Most people dont care about gender or race, they just want to be heard and notice. So, if you are a female or male, it wouldn't matter, as long as you have good, deep communication to offer.
ReplyDeletefrom your post: The amount of information people put on blogs is amazing, 70% of people gave, get this, first names 68% age, 61% gave their CONTACT INFORMATION! And at the bottom of the list "full name" It's amazing that someone would be willing, in fact 61%, would be willing to give their location before their real names, kinda scary as well as just plain stupid.
ReplyDeleteI feel that as times move forward younger teens will be more educated on this matter. It seems like with the digital era kids will be taught not to be put as mmuch on the internet about their personal lives. (like the 80s and 90s not talking to strangers, not taking the candy ect...) It seems like right now we are watching young adults and older adults that don't have the "upbringing" in digital responsiblity.
And after all the research to find out what group of people posted the most entries on blogs, which group of people told the most of themselves, then what? Anytime you categorize something, someone or something is going to come out on top. But what does it mean?
ReplyDeleteYes,"upbringing", is part of it, but the other part is they are not afraid. I mean most of them have not used a phone without caller id. There is no real since urgency to protect themselves;the majority of teenagers technology is their life.
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