The Different Classes Among Social Networks

There are two classes: the Facebook class and the MySpace class. According to Danah Boyd’s new piece on “Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace” there are distinct class divisions between the people using MySpace and those that are on Facebook. Danah’s choice of words is fairly interesting. It almost sounds like MySpace is made up of people that are rejects of society.

MySpace is still home for Latino/Hispanic teens, immigrant teens, “burnouts,” “alternative kids,” “art fags,” punks, emos, goths, gangstas, queer kids, and other kids who didn’t play into the dominant high school popularity paradigm.

Conversely,

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