Social sites reveal class divide
quoting:
Characterising Facebook users she said: "They are in honors classes, looking forward to the prom, and live in a world dictated by after school activities."
By contrast, the average MySpace teenager tendeds to come from families where parents did not go to college, she said.
Ms Boyd also found far more teens from immigrant, Latino and Hispanic families on MySpace as well as many others who are not part of the "dominant high school popularity paradigm".
"MySpace has most of the kids who are socially ostracised at school because they are geeks, freaks, or queers," she said.
-----
I've sometimes been tempted to get a myspace or whatever it's called but haven't quite felt compelled to. Do I really have the time for more Internet? There's raspberries & broccoli to harvest, a bike to whack back into shape, edible forest gardens to read about and implement ....
hakim
I suppose that study might have some weight to it. Though I wonder if myspace users are just more diverse in nature than facebook, cause I know A LOT of pretty well off peeps running around myspace. Not to mention, the people I know who use facebook (which funny enough I only heard about a month ago. Has it been around long?) tend to think myspace is better, but more complicated so they use facebook out of ease. They "like" myspace better, cause it has all the bells and whitsles, but opt for facebook cause it's straight forward or something.
I'd also be (sort of but not really) interested in knowing the geographic demographics of the two sites. Like is facebook more "international" than myspace or vice versa? Does facebook cater more towards English speaking Euros while myspace is more hodge-podgey?