You Are What You Like (And Not What Your Friends Like) On Facebook [STUDY]

“The study tracked the Facebook friendships of 1,640 students at an unidentified college over four years and found that students were more likely to friend other students with similar musical tastes, as opposed to having their musical tastes influenced by what their friends on Facebook listened to; the lone exceptions were classical and jazz music, which the researchers said were ‘especially “contagious” due to [their] unique value as a high-status cultural signal.’”

  1. dethtron5000 reblogged this from emergentfutures and added:
    Interesting study on the power of social recommendations.
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    Facebookで友だちになるのは自分と音楽の趣味が合う人で、友だちだから影響を受けるということではないんですね。いくつかの例外はあるようですが。
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