{"id":8140,"date":"2012-05-28T16:37:57","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T14:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/?p=8140"},"modified":"2012-05-28T13:46:17","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T11:46:17","slug":"you-have-one-new-friend-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/2012\/05\/28\/you-have-one-new-friend-request\/","title":{"rendered":"You have one new Friend Request"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is common to get friend requests on Facebook. Even more common if you are in AEGEE. Even more common if you are an “AEGEE celebrity” but in many cases you could read a name on Facebook thinking “who is this” but then reading that you have more than 50 friends in common would make you accept the friend request despite not being sure whether you know this person or not.<\/em><\/p>\n

Maybe it is a special bond between AEGEEans, maybe it was one drink too many that makes one doubt and possibly embarrassed not to remember the person who is sending you a friend request. Whatever reason there may be, editor of The AEGEEan Patricia Anthony chose this topic as inspiration for a university assignment and an article for The AEGEEan, hoping it will make AEGEEans discuss how our organisation could be more structured online, especially in Social Networks.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

124 persons, 44 males, 80 females (again the females rock) from countries such as Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Spain, Poland, Georgia, Germany and Turkey took their time to answer few questions. One proved the difference of ages in AEGEE.<\/p>\n

18 – 20: 8<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>20 – 22: 30<\/strong><\/p>\n

22 – 24: 48<\/strong><\/p>\n

24 – 26: 19<\/strong><\/p>\n

26+: 19<\/strong><\/p>\n

So the majority of these people were between 20 and 24, and 50 percent of the survey takers (62) have been in AEGEE for more than four years.<\/p>\n

Huge difference in number of friends<\/strong><\/p>\n

Maybe it is because of difference in popularity, maybe it is because of not everybody accepts just any friend requests, maybe it is a mixture, maybe it is something else, but what is certain is that there is no clear pattern of how many Facebook friends AEGEEans have. None of the survey takers have less than 100 friends, only three people have between 100 – 200, only 20 persons have what is said to be the “normal” number of Facebook friends 200 – 400 and the remaining 101 persons have above 400 Facebook friends with 20 popular AEGEEans having more than 1000 friends on Facebook. This might lead to the question “how can you know so many people?” and there is somewhat an answer to this. Because not all Facebook friends are “normal” friends: we have AEGEE antennae (101 are friends with one or more), 122 are friends with people met through AEGEE, 63 has chosen to friend cute AEGEE mascots, and more or less everybody are friends with relatives, co-workers, fellow students etc.<\/p>\n

To share or not to share\"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

What is interesting with the survey is that about 50 per cent (59) say that they have accepted a friend request not sure about who the person was, the remaining 60 persons say that they have never done so, and three individuals are not sure. Then again, another different thing is that the majority : 63 versus 60 persons share everything with their numerous Facebook friends whereas the remaining 60 individuals choose to keep some personal information, pictures more private.<\/p>\n

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"La Nave" - The Facebook group for "La Tripulaci\u00f3n"<\/p><\/div>\n

So many groups, so many pages, so little structure<\/strong><\/p>\n

Being active on Facebook The AEGEEan has a high understanding that there are many different groups, many different Facebook profiles of e.g. antennae and many different pages. The exact number is hard to tell but the document created by The AEGEEan editor Patricia Anthony is more than four pages.<\/p>\n

To the delight of The AEGEEan 109 persons out of the 124 “like” the Facebook page. What could make some people wonder is that The AEGEEan has more “likes” than AEGEE Europe’s “official” Facebook page, which has 96 likes, which is only one more like than the Summer University Coordination Team. The Network Commission still has many potential “likers” out there because they only have 45 likers out of the 124, a number that is quite similar to the rest of the pages. What is the reason for that, one may wonder and there are numerous opportunities. Surely, it is easy to create a Facebook page but usually Social Network experts give these advices when making a page or group online:<\/p>\n