In a bit less than 24 hours, we got about 400 responses to the poll on how readers use Facebook; here are the results:
| Which of the following best describes how you use Facebook? | ||
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| Selection | Votes | |
| Almost entirely for sharing personal stuff: photos, family news, etc. |  37% |
149 |
| Almost entirely for professoinal purposes: networking, sharing my work, intellectual interchange |  2% |
8 |
| Almost entirely as my political platform: sharing my political opinions and outrage, news, op-eds |  2% |
9 |
| A mix of personal, professional, and political |  22% |
89 |
| Mostly personal, some of the others |  28% |
113 |
| Mostly professional, some of the others |  4% |
15 |
| Mostly political, some of the others |  4% |
15 |
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| 398 total | ||
A couple of readers wrote to say they don't use Facebook at all ("it's evil" said one philosopher!). I have to say that it's not the case that one-third of my FB friends use it "almost entirely for sharing personal stuff." In any case, comments are open for folks to opine about why they avoid Facebook, or about how they use it, or about what they make of these results and so on. (Folks who commented at the poll site should feel free to repost their comments here.)
