It is said that the most diverse moments in most people’s lives happen at work, school, and shopping or any place or function that they do not have direct control over. While the least diverse moments are at church and family gatherings. Facebook and MySpace are social networking juggernauts, with Facebook now seemingly taking the lead. But no matter who’s up or who’s down, they basically perform a function that only Alexander Graham Bell or Antonio Meucci could have imagined way back when, during the early days of the telephone. People connect. However, now days it’s more than just merely connecting, it’s chatting, sharing photos, music, businesses, ideas, views of the world, but mostly it’s a way to amass friends from all walks of life, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, religions, social and educational backgrounds.
So… taking a look at your Facebook friends that you’ve carefully amassed through accepting, requesting and ignoring, just how diverse are you? Has today’s technology changed previous perceptions of when you are and are not interconnected with those whom you may not necessarily be considered part of your tribe.
Many make claims about how they have all kinds of friends and how the world is getting smaller because of technology. But how much do we actually take advantage of the opportunity that social networking provides for expanding our world?
Now of course, many people don’t join social networking sites to expand their friends. They use it more so to reconnect or stay in contact with friends and family they already have, so they say. However, even more so to those folks who are comfortable not connecting with the new, just as well as those who admittedly seek to expand their social circle, take a look at your Facebook world and see how it reflects what you believe your acquaintances are versus who they actually are. Take what I like to call the Facebook Diversity Test. It doesn’t make you good or bad and you can’t fail. But it is a snap shot as to who seeks you out and you accept as well as those who you seek. Take a look and then ask, “Just how diverse am I?”
FACEBOOK DIVERSITY QUIZ
- If you went to college how many non-college friends do you have?
- If you’re black how many white? If you’re white how many black? How many of a different ethnicity overall do you have as friends?
- Female vs. Male friends?
- How many friends do you have outside of your profession?
- How many friends who are not family? How many family?
- Are your friends from various age groups or predominately your age only?
- Are your friends mostly religious?
- Are they Democrat, Republican, non-political?
- Do you have any friends who are from a different country?
- Do you have any friends who don’t speak your language?
- Do you regularly or have you ever ignored or accepted a friend request based on, looks, color, ethnicity or gender?
- Have you become someone’s friend just because they’re someone else’s friend?
The list can go on. According to your own social networking friending habits are you really as diverse as you think you are? Does Facebook accurately reflect your world?
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