multifarious mushrooms

There’s a very interesting article in The Age about Facebook and MySpace. The so called high priestess of the internet, danah boyd (yes she prefers her name to be in lower case) is doing a Ph.D on online culture.
She maintains that MySpace is losing people to Facebook, both of which are social networking sites because there is a class divide opening up. Facebook is for “college” aspirants, while MySpace is for the working class.

danah’s site is danah.org

Though I don’t know the stats, it isn’t surprising. As the rest of society is also divided in this way, why not the supposed egalitarian internet?

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