FIGURE 1.2 College Students’ Facebook Networks This graph illustrates the percentage of each type of friend in college students’ Facebook networks. “Activity” friends were people who shared some activity, such as teammates or co-workers; “maintained” friends were friends from high school or a previous romantic partner. Adriana Manago and her colleagues (2012) found that the proportion of close friends to acquaintances did not make a difference to college students’ satisfaction with their lives, but the number of friends did. Students with more friends were more satisfied with their lives.

Source: Data from Manago & others (2012).