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Who Are Our Facebook Friends?
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday May 2nd 2011
Who Are Our Facebook Friends?
The average New Zealand Facebook user has 124 Facebook friends (mean), according to a new poll by UMR Research. The poll also asked New Zealanders who their Facebook friends were:
- 70% are friends with someone they have not seen since school.
- 35% are friends with someone they have never met in person.
- 29% are friends with someone under the age of 13. This is significant because Facebook’s policy is that users have to be at least 13 years old to set up a profile.
- 26% have a former partner (e.g. an ex-boyfriend) amongst their friends.
- Just 14% are Facebook friends with their current employer.
The data is from UMR Research’s latest online survey of a nationally representative sample of 1,000 New Zealanders aged 18 years and over. These questions were asked of the 687 respondents who were Facebook users [1].
ENDS
[1] UMR’s online survey is conducted every four weeks. The sample of n=687 Facebook users has a margin of error of ±3.7% for 50% figures at the 95% confidence level. The most recent survey was conducted between 12th & 19th April 2011.
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