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According to this CNN article, your social class may correlate directly with your social media of choice. A prime example being the whole Facebook vs MySpace debacle.

Not many friends or colleagues I know are still updating their MySpace pages regularly, however there are those few that still prefer the networking site. I know right, *those* people that apparently still can’t get on the facebook bandwagon and are still editing their MySpace profiles. Weird, I know. Not all people can adapt to a new social networking site as fast as others. Once people are comfortable and set in their ways with something, change does not come easy (like most things in life).

The article also reports that, “Even more affluent are users of Twitter, the microblogging site, and LinkedIn, a networking site geared to white-collar professionals. Almost 38 percent of LinkedIn users earn more than $100,000 a year.” Hmm…I use Twitter and LinkedIn and my income has yet to reach those levels. Obviously every statistic varies per person, but I’d say that they do have some good points and the statistics don’t lie.

Social networking by the numbers

Users with household income above $75,000
Facebook — 41.74 percent
MySpace — 32.38 percent
LinkedIn — 58.35 percent
Twitter — 43.34 percent

Users with household income under $50,000
Facebook — 28.42 percent
MySpace — 37.13 percent
LinkedIn — 17.34 percent
Twitter — 28.36 percent

Female users
Facebook — 56.33 percent
MySpace — 56.69 percent
LinkedIn — 48.11percent
Twitter — 53.59 percent

Users aged 18 to 24
Facebook — 10.27 percent
MySpace — 15.46 percent
LinkedIn — 3.99 percent
Twitter — 9.51percent

Users aged 35 to 49
Facebook — 31.54 percent
MySpace — 29.09 percent
LinkedIn — 43.64 percent
Twitter — 34.02 percent

Source: The Nielsen Co. via CNN