Social circle, for the purposes of this investigation- the results of which don't reflect too well on me. My FB friend list as a reasonably representative sample of my wider While I am not FB friends with everyone I know in real life, I'm using These numbers don't reflect the racial makeup of the place I live: my wider metropolitan area is only about 57% white, and 29% of the population is black. I have 177 Facebook friends*, of whom 156 (88%) are white, 8 (4.5%) are east Asian, 6 (3%) are south Asian, 4 (2%) are Hispanic, and 3 (1.5%) are black. I wondered how I stack up.Ĭonveniently, I don't have a ton of Facebook friends, so it's not a difficult task for me to put them all in a spreadsheet and mark down everybody's race (as best I can). The percentages weren't as high for members of other races (e.g., black people tend to have more white friends than white people have black friends, and so on). The number was around 90%, I think- that is, the friend-circles of white people are made up of 90% other white people, among people living in the United States. I can't find the link to it now (read: I am super lazy), but I was reading a report about the large number of white people who have mostly (or exclusively) white friends. The colorful word blizzard above came from Wolfram Alpha's Facebook report feature, which will take the personal data you've scattered to the digital winds and assemble it in concise, structured forms, so you can see what you look like to an advertisement-tailoring algorithm.
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