It was interesting to observe a group of fourteen to seventeen year old Aboriginal boys and girls during the week. These are young leaders and the top academic students from the Eastern Goldfield College and High Schools in the Kalgoorlie region of Western Australia. They were visiting La Trobe looking at the facilities in case they decide to travel interstate to attend university. The immediate attraction from the moment they arrived was to get on the computer and access their Facebook site.
There were equal numbers of male and female students, numbering twenty in total. What I found interesting was that all the girls accessed their Facebook and spent almost all the time they had spare responding to it; however not one male touched the computer, preferring to sit around and chat. Is Facebook a predominent female activity? I had not noticed this gender disparity before and this question had me searching for the answers. In lectures most of the males seem to acknowledge they use Facebook or social media to stay in touch with their friends.
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