Facebook’s %4 billion IPO is not the only thing about the firm which has caught the public’s eye. According to a new Pew study, Facebook members are generous. They help their friends more than their friends help them. Since Facebook has a finite number of users, it seems impossible that this could be true throughout the ecosystem. How can everyone help everyone else more than they are helped?
Pew states
And the new findings show that over a one-month period:
•40% of Facebook users in our sample made a friend request, but 63% received at least one request
•Users in our sample pressed the like button next to friends’ content an average of 14 times, but had their content “liked” an average of 20 times
•Users sent 9 personal messages, but received 12
•12% of users tagged a friend in a photo, but 35% were themselves tagged in a photo
If more people receive messages than send them, won’t someone’s mail box eventually filled to an infinite size?
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