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Facebook and Myspace: Crushing the competition … along class lines?
By Jeremy | June 26, 2007
... if there's going to be a supernetwork, I'd much rather have it be clean and navigable like Facebook than spam-filled and occasionally creepy like MySpace. If Facebook adds e-mail, IM, and RSS, it's one step closer to becoming as comprehensive as Yahoo! and as popular as MySpace. The rest of the Internet might as well surrender.The second (via Tony and M. Shenk) explores the class distinctions that have emerged between users of Myspace and Facebook.
The goodie two shoes, jocks, athletes, or other "good" kids are now going to Facebook. These kids tend to come from families who emphasize education and going to college. They are part of what we'd call hegemonic society. They are primarily white, but not exclusively. They are in honors classes, looking forward to the prom, and live in a world dictated by after school activities. 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. Teens who are really into music or in a band are on MySpace. MySpace has most of the kids who are socially ostracized at school because they are geeks, freaks, or queers.Still thinking about the implications of this. What say you?dollar personal loan bank 5000 frommany airplane loans how monthsloan 1500 loan personalloan personal 1500loan term 401kcard credit accept loan new internetgrants and washington loans accessaccounting for loans penalty on prepayment Map
Topics: economics, myspace, technology, youth | 4 Comments »
June 26th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
Hey J
You might like this one too, about the Facebook platform, which they implemented a few weeks ago. [It's written by Marc Andreessen, who was one of the creators of the original web browser. Oh, those were the days...] Very interesting from the technology and viral distribution perspectives.
http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/06/analyzing_the_f.html
June 26th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
I don’t know how zephoria came to that conclusion. I think it is stretching it a bit in terms of looking at the demographics. I think that the way the communities develop comes from more of a self projected versus one that is created by the respective network sites (nature versus nature). There is a different layout and appeal to both but I don’t agree with the overall evaluation of which communities go to which site…I do agree with the notion of music and myspace is geared more towards media based expression where as Facebook is more gadgety towards a narrative/text based format. either way, let’s not overreach these notions of culture on something that doesn’t exist.
June 27th, 2007 at 1:34 am
I’m into survival of the blogosphere / online fittest. I love MySpace, have never used facebook, and think BLOGGING is where it is really at. At the end of the day, it’s all about preference. I prefer to blog.
July 1st, 2007 at 9:01 pm
This is some really interesting stuff. I’ve been trying to explain the class stuff on the Web for a while to people and this article gets it. TechMission is active on all the major social networks. Some are good places to get volunteers, some are better to find funders, and some have the people we are trying to serve.
I’m currently working on an article on the effects of online segregation in the Christian community. I’ll post it only after a while. The interesting thing about online segregation is that is is much more easy to measure and assess the economic impact. That is a lot of what this article will be about.