anaesthetics said:
Considering Facebook was exclusively University based at the beginning and spread on an educational basis for the first 2 years its hardly surprising.

THANK YOU.

I can't for the life of me imagine why this "division" is surprising to anyone. Yes, you can get onto Facebook without an educational-institution-granted email address now (as of not very long ago, actually). No, you can't do much with it without one (or without an employer-related email address, I guess). It's still mostly 1) college kids, 2) college grads, and 3) college-bound high school kids who heard about it through their college friends (or 3)a. high school kids at high schools that actually provide students with a high-school-based email address--that tends to happen at richer schools).

This is not surprising. Not in the slightest. The fact that this chick thinks she's making a novel observation is kind of shocking to me.

Actually, several times in both the original article and her response to the responses she was getting, she pointed out that these were not new observations.

Most of the article was going into not only the 'division' between users on one or the other, but also the perceptions that are associated with them (as in, MySpace being for 'the bad people'), and how those perceptions relate to the class divide.

wtfcupcakes

Lake Placid, NY

July 2007

AUG 13, 2007 08:57 PM

SonOfAPunk said:
Facebook is MySpace, but useful.

it has all of those annoying applications now, though. i hate reading all of this shit in the feed thingy about things i really don't care about.

i'm on both myspace & facebook and they both have good/bad points.

Lovefuck

I'm lost

November 2004

AUG 13, 2007 09:56 PM

heh

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s5

STAFF

San Francisco, CA

AUG 14, 2007 02:41 AM

seanbonner said:

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. These are kids whose parents didn't go to college, who are expected to get a job when they finish high school. These are the teens who plan to go into the military immediately after schools. Teens who are really into music or in a band are also on MySpace. MySpace has most of the kids who are socially ostracized at school because they are geeks, freaks, or queers.

Those kids are moving to Bebo.

Moderncutthroat

Philadelphia, PA

May 2006

AUG 14, 2007 03:13 AM

lol. Sorry this seems like a bunch of BS to me. Maybe a year ago it made sense but Facebook is open to anyone with an email address now. It used to be that you had to have a college email address to get on there. That's what made it nice. Now it's all the same.

Myspace and Facebook will blend into one. I have both and nearly every person I know personally has both.

Rafi

Santa Monica, CA

January 2003

AUG 14, 2007 05:59 AM

I have a myspace page, but only so I can tell people that I never check it.

3rdTimeAddict

Minneapolis, MN

April 2005

AUG 14, 2007 02:44 PM

I and my friends use facebook for 2 reasons.
One it's smart, easy, and not irritating with music playing that I don't want to hear.
Two, the design its fucking amazing, it loads and works like nothing, but myspace is a bogged down piece of programming shit.

dualhex

Houston, TX

January 2005

AUG 19, 2007 09:48 PM

The thing people don't realize about myspace is that it's the first of its kind. I've been with myspace since it first started. Despite the constant errors and updates and glitches and phishing.... you have to respect it. Myspace has surpassed even yahoo in the amount of members it has. You have to respect something of that stature. It's become the first of its kind to connect you with everyone and everything.

meatpieboy

Korea, D.P.R.

June 2004

AUG 20, 2007 09:53 AM

I'm on SG.

Keri

SUICIDEGIRL

Virginia, USA

AUG 20, 2007 10:04 AM

Rafi said:
I have a myspace page, but only so I can tell people that I never check it.

word.

adjunct

Philadelphia, PA

July 2002

AUG 21, 2007 09:22 AM

Can we go back to the part about people who have regular access to personal computers and broadband internet connections and their role as part of the subaltern?

Wendy

SUICIDEGIRL

Israel

AUG 21, 2007 09:44 AM

dualhex said:
The thing people don't realize about myspace is that it's the first of its kind. I've been with myspace since it first started. Despite the constant errors and updates and glitches and phishing.... you have to respect it. Myspace has surpassed even yahoo in the amount of members it has. You have to respect something of that stature. It's become the first of its kind to connect you with everyone and everything.

i could be wrong, but I believe both Friendster and makeout club came before MySpace. So I don't really know what you mean by "first of its kind." Myspace just copied what other sites were already doing.

mat8drb

United Kingdom

October 2004

AUG 22, 2007 06:02 AM

Wendy said:
i could be wrong, but I believe both Friendster and makeout club came before MySpace. So I don't really know what you mean by "first of its kind." Myspace just copied what other sites were already doing.

One of the original taglines for SG in clickable adverts alluded to how they'd been copying MakeOutClub since 2001.

emotedcreations

Germany

July 2006

AUG 27, 2007 12:40 AM

La Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste -Pierre Bourdieu

Clidna

Canada

January 2005

AUG 27, 2007 11:12 PM

wtfcupcakes said:

SonOfAPunk said:
Facebook is MySpace, but useful.

it has all of those annoying applications now, though. i hate reading all of this shit in the feed thingy about things i really don't care about.

You can get rid of that, you know... Like any other site, you can set it up however you want it.

Sinlover

Daytona Beach, FL

January 2006

AUG 28, 2007 04:05 PM

Eh, it's all the same crap.
I never check my profile on either one.

dante75067

Lewisville, TX

April 2007

AUG 31, 2007 09:52 PM

"I drive to disconnected communities and talk to teenagers from different schools about their lives. I hang out in public places where I watch teens. I hang out on MySpace and scan the micro-profiles that one can see on Facebook."

Really?

Cigarette

Cleveland, OH

April 2004

SEP 01, 2007 08:34 AM

I don't trust any academics who uses lowercase for their names. Leave it to the poets and indie rockers, sister!

RedVillain

I'm lost

September 2005

OCT 03, 2007 09:18 PM

NiggaSpace.com

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