[Air-l] Blogs as source of socio-demographic data

[Alexander Semenov]

Yes, I'm totally aware of such things. So, my interest is to find some  
data about the persentage of real/fake data, ways how to measure it and so  
on. Perhaps there were any kind of surveys about this matter?
On Wed, 30 May 2007 22:30:26 +0400, Ellie Wix <elliewix at gmail.com> wrote:

> I can only speak as a user, but I would be extremely cautious about the
> relationships status area.  People often  list fictitous relationships  
> that
> are in-jokes between friends.  About half the time 'in a relationship' is
> correct, but of the 5 people who I am friended with and are listed as
> married, only 1 actually is.  Also, now that it doesn't restrict for  
> school
> emails, people can make fake accounts, or accounts for pets.  As an  
> example,
> I made a facebook account for my iguana who has a hometown of "In the  
> corner
> next to the snakes, IL" and is listed as married to my roommate.
>
> As for location, hometown, political, and religion, I can't really say  
> much
> other than it is not uncommon to see people put in joking answers.
>
> On 5/30/07, Alexander Semenov <semenoffalex at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>> recently I was surfing Russian facebook-clone vkontakte.ru and decided  
>> to
>> count statistics of political preferences. I don't consider my results  
>> to
>> be valid, so I've decided to ask about any thoughts, articles etc. on  
>> the
>> validity of blogs as a source of socio-demographic data (age, gender,
>> location, political and religious preferences etc.). While I think that
>> other interests such as music, reading, films etc. are quite reliable I
>> can't say the same about socio-demographic data. What do you think?
>> Thanks in advance.
>> Best wishes,
>> Alexander Semenov.
>> MA student
>> Faculty of Sociology
>> Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (MSSES)
>> http://www.msses.ru/English/index.html
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