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Study: Race plays a minor role in forging Facebook friendships

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 1, 2010 — Race may not be as important as previously thought in determining who befriends whom, suggests a new study of American college students’ habits on Facebook. The findings, by a pair of sociologists from Harvard Unive…

November 1, 2010

Facebook study finds race trumped by ethnic, social, geographic origins in forging friendships

Race may not be as important as previously thought in determining who buddies up with whom, suggests a new UCLA — Harvard University study of American college students on the social networking site Facebook.
“Sociologists have long maintained t…

October 28, 2010