I looked at the Facebook profiles of three people, my grandma, a female college student, and a teenage girl not in school. My grandma recently created a Facebook, and her profile picture is of her and my dad. She only has 13 friends, and has made only one status update since she created the account a month ago.
The student's profile picture was a full body shot, posed for that makes her look sweet and innocent, which she mostly is. She updates her status about once a week, sometimes complaining about classes. I noticed that she likes 60 things, and has a realistic number of 270 friends.
The teenage girl's profile is a wedding picture of opening presents with her young husband. I noticed that she makes status updates quite often, sometimes more than once a day, and she posts strange things like,"Single Dad Laughing: Memoirs of a Bullied Kid." A lot of her updates are not necessary in my opinion. She has 574 friends, but knowing how friendly she is, she has likely met them all in person. She likes 124 things, which, along with the updates, shows that she spends a lot more time on Facebook than the other two people I looked at.
I didn't really notice anything new by looking at these profiles. I just felt a little weird snooping on a single person's page for so long. It does seem that people who know how to use Facebook well, unlike my grandma, and who don't have a lot of other things to worry about or do for fun, will update statuses more often and post random things that could be interesting or not.
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