Further insight into Facebook usage patterns can be gleaned from Figures 1 and
2, which show what elements respondents report including in their Facebook profile
and who they believe has seen their profiles, respectively. The fact that nearly all
Facebook users include their high school name in their profile (96%) suggests that
maintaining connections to former high school classmates is a strong motivation for
using Facebook. Not surprisingly, 97% report that high school friends had seen their
profile. Ninety percent or more also reported that other friends as well as people in