the poll of polls reveals the winner will be MATT

I'll make very little of it (and I do still follow FB).

Attention seeker
(a)You think,means nothing in the context of the result of the show,but you are entitled to an opinion.
(b)Facebook,again,totally meaningless in relation to the TRUE vote.
You can guess all you want,bring up any stats you want,its not going to make one iota of difference to the result.
i wont be posting on this thread gain,nice try.

again i think its very telling.. if you add this info about facebook fans it correlates exactly to all the other polls out there pointing to a matt victory.

facebook comprise a huge cross section of the population, so i wouldnt say its totally meaningless

bardo

Don't think it means a lot but hardly a bad thing to have almost double One D's and over three times Rebecca's fans.

whiff of desperation from bardo here....

Actually Bardo's right looking at it again. I was thinking that as an overall indicator it's bad but there are always particular points to learn.

Facebook users are weighted towards youth, and even more so the minority FB users and self selecting group that comprise FB fans. However bearing that in mind it shows that Matt is more popular than 1D in 1D's biggest support group - the young XF fans.

Henry

Yes I thought that.  Facebook is more a youngsters thing and yet he gets almost double their fans on there so how's he doing elsewhere!  Don't like to read too much into it but as I said hardly a bad thing.

Facebook is more a youngsters thing

NO IT'S NOT YOU MORONS!!!!

some serious misunderstanding of facebook demographics on this forum.  i've highlighted this before on another thread.

Can you highlight it here too Gym? I'm too moronic to find it.

While you're digging out your info I'll highlight something:

59.52% of UK female and 64.1% of UK male FB users are under 35.

However that is just account numbers, out of those I know the young use it far more than the middle aged or old account holders, and therefore I'm sure the bias is even more skewed in the favour of youth.

http://www.insidefacebook.com/2010/06/08/whos-using-facebook-around-the-world-the-demographics-of-facebooks-top-15-country-markets/

sorry henry - that sounded a bit harsh!

less than 25% of uk facebook users are teenagers, just over half of which are female.  which presumably is the cross-section of FB that the masses think would be "liking" One Direction.

for what it's worth, i don't think One Direction's fanbase is limited to teenage girls - plenty of women in their 20s as well as mums would be fans.  however i'm not sure they would necessarily be bothered to "like" them.

i do agree with the general sentiment though that One D are too short in the betting.

So you're saying that as much as 24% of FB users are teens, therefore they're way over-represented considering that teens are such a small percentage of the teen + adult population.

The graph at my link show that 41.4% of male users and 37.7% of female users are 25 or younger. However I think that the percentage of FB fans 25 or younger is even much greater.

POOR OLD STORM

i was really just trying to dispel this image that people have that only teenagers use facebook, or should i say, that the average facebook user is a teenager.

i'm saying that about 1 in 8 uk facebook users are teenage girls, which according to popular belief is one direction's core market.  whether or not that is proportionate to the population is irrelevant - 7 out of 8 uk facebook users are NOT teenage girls.

How did you check the exact percentage of non-fans signed up to Cher's page, Bardo?
Did you check through 1,146,683 manually?

Or are you talking shee-ite?