The Golden Strawberry

Facebook statisitics are revealing things apparently, they tell someone a lot about a given network. The Birmingham network for example consists of 49% females, 39% males and 12% unlisted. This is weird, I get sexual orientation and being bi, but regardless of that, you are still almost certainly a male or female (and the proportion of those to which the 'neither' label applies is surely not 12%!) I am all for gender equality, but to me this seems slightly off, especially since football, with a traditionally male fanbase, ranks as the second highest interest amongst its students. Also on this particular list are other such well known interests as drinking, sleeping and eating. Ah yes. Those interests which keep us alive. Well done Birmingham students, you have successfully managed to list basic human characteristics as part of your interests. This either means: a) you have no creativity when it comes to filling in such basic lists, or b) you actually do not have any interests making you a rather sad sort of person.

However, the more overwhelming statistic is the number of students who list their political views as 'none listed'. 64% of the population put this down, beating 'Liberal' into second place with just 10%. I am aware that there is no distinct 'Labour' option as there is a 'Conservative' option, but I would still be willing to bet that student political apathy runs deep, and for most of those 64% for whom not listing a political status, politics is another world, something to be fought over by stuffy old men in chambers somewhere in London. The days of great numbers of students protesting and being active figures in nationwide political spheres seems to be declining, instead, it seems, students are more content to focus upon staying alive.

Luke