Facebook Finds

Any who knows me knows that I am not a Facebook fan. I have nothing against the social networking site, it’s just that if I had it, I know I’d be searching the profiles of random people all day long. Against my better judgment, I have joined the site for the sake of blog research. I typed the word “Cuban” into the group search bar and VOILA!... 479 groups appeared. I narrowed it down to just UF groups and the search returned 38 matches. The most popular of these groups included:

o CASA- 190 members
o Cuban Gators- 175 members
o Azucarrr- 202 members
o Cuban Mafia: UF Division- 47 members
o Being Half Cuban is Amazing- 75 members


*Cuban Flag from Google Images*

Other groups that include Cuban students but are not geared specifically toward that nationality are “Gators Latinos y Latinas”, “Latin Gators”, and “Latinos Unidos”, which at the time of gathering this data had 2, 316 members.
Obviously the Cuban-American population at UF is substantial and many of those students are so proud of their heritage that they have chosen to exhibit that pride via this extremely popular social networking site. I may have to stick around Facebook… who knows, maybe I’ll start my very own Cuban student group!!!