据英国《每日电讯报》报道，有调查发现年龄在40岁以上的2000多名妈妈用户中，多数受访者的Facebook好友数量比自己的孩子还要多。

尽管该报道并未显示拥有更多Facebook好友的妈妈用户人数，但却明确指出孩子还没上大学的为人母亲者在Facebook上不但有自己的好友，而且还有同事、孩子的好友、孩子好友家长的联系方式。而孩子在上大学前的交际圈却明显更有局限性，他们的Facebook好友一般是自己的同龄人。

Moms Over 40 Have More Facebook Friends

据游戏邦了解，这项调查的执行人员是Tammi Williams，她表示自己将这些妈妈用户划分成了6种类型，其中最主要的两类人群是：

·乐在其中型：这类母亲很喜欢玩社交游戏，以纯社交方式与好友列表上的联系人互动。她们确实很喜欢Facebook所创造的社交环境，也很有兴趣了解自己的好友正在干什么，乐衷于体验《FarmVille》这类社交游戏，赠送虚拟礼物给好友。

·谨慎保守型:她们将Facebook视为一种提高警惕和安全意识的工具，不喜欢在该平台上公开或共享个人信息，很显然是最支持Facebook的Amber寻人警报系统的群体。据游戏邦所知，Tammi Williams还将针对这一群体，从她们的新闻条目链接的分享情况、浏览网站类型、政治或宗教背景等方面展开后续调查。

除了这两个群体，还有另外两个群体的Facebook好友也不少：

·自我中心型：她们喜欢在Facebook上晒出自己最靓的照片，或者炫耀自己最近取得的成就。

·职场女强人型：她们最了解互联网，经常通过社交网站推广自己的业务。

游戏邦认为，这项调查其实还可以再增加一些更详细的参考情况，比如说划分出愿意与孩子成为知心朋友的母亲、喜欢监视孩子上网行为的母亲等群体。（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译，转载请注明来源：游戏邦）

STUDY: Moms Over 40 Have More Facebook Friends Than Their Kids Do

A survey of more than 2,000 mothers over the age of 40 found that a majority have more Facebook friends than their children, and that they know how to better take advantage of their presence on the site.

The U.K.’s Daily Telegraph reported the study, without including key like which journal published the findings and exactly how many mothers over 40 have more Facebook friends than their children. But the overall claims make sense nonetheless. Women with children younger than college age might not only have their own

friends, but also their coworkers, their children’s friends, and their children friends’ parents among their contacts. Kids, on the other hand, generally have a much more limited social circle until they go to college. They also tend to stick with their own age group. It would be interesting to know, however, which group has more friends they have never met in real life, or that they met online. And who uses it as a dating outlet the most?

Tammi Williams, who conducted the study, told the Telegraph that she created six categories to explain how mothers generally use Facebook. The two most popular groups might surprise you:

* The Feel-Gooders: These are the kind of mothers who actively play games on the social network, and interact with their contacts in a purely social way. They genuinely enjoy the community spirit of Facebook and like to see what their friends are doing. “They get involved in games like Farmville and like sending virtual gifts to their neighbors,” the researcher explained.

* The Do-Gooders: These women use Facebook as a tool to raise awareness on causes and safety issues, and not as a way to reveal or share personal information. An important follow-up survey on this group would be to know how often they share links on news items, and from what kind of sites, as well as what their political or religious backgrounds are. Certainly it seems that they are the ones who would support, for example, safety Amber Alerts becoming standard on Facebook.

Less popular than these two are ones that you’d expect to have the most friends on the site:

* All about me: They use Facebook to show the best pics of themselves, or to boast about their latest achievements.

* Business bodies: They are the most Internet savvy and use social media to network or promote their work.

As I read and thought about these categories, I wondered why the study didn’t take into account how mothers negotiated their Facebook presence depending on whether they were friends with their children and extended family. Also, was there a specific group that was more prone to befriend their children and monitor their activities online, or is this something that all  mothers do on social media?（source:allfacebook）