Still using MySpace? You low-rent good for nothing loser...
According to the research of US academics, our beloved time wasting websites MySpace and Facebook are increasingly splitting along class lines.
Danah Boyd, a researcher at the University of California, says their users are now split on the basis of social and economic backgrounds. Her paper, published this week, said that typical Facebook users "tend to come from families who emphasise education and going to college. They are primarily white, but not exclusively". MySpace, meanwhile, "is still home for Latino and Hispanic teens, immigrant teens" as well as "other kids who didn't play into the dominant high school popularity paradigm".
Facebook – everyone’s new favourite interweb site - was started by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg. It now has 3.5 million UK users. Until last year membership was limited to university students and individuals with an email address from an academic institution.
To be honest, though, we all know that MySpace is only used by shit bands and spammers, don’t we?
Who still has a Friendster account?
We used a picture of E from Eels. He looks trampy. Therefore he probably only uses MySpace.
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I'm not in a shit band!
I want the sort of job
that pays me to do research like this - i.e. stuff that is already blindingly obvious.
face
party
Me too
what crap.
dont all british teenagers
use bebo?
I am!
Reeeeeaaaally crap.
bring back...
audiogalaxy and faceparty! dont need none of this myspace nonsense :o(
i use both
what does that make me? (except for a loner, a dullard, a loser and other terms to that usual description)
Like I really give a flying fuck about what some cuntjockey I went to school with is doing now? Do me a favour.
E dressed as the Unabomber
= typical Myspace user? Worrying.
i still have
a friendster account, t'was my first friend site thing i signed up to.
i may be wrong...
... but until recently didn't you have to be a member of a university to sign up to facebook? and then they made it so you could join a company network, and now anyone can join?
if so - this research may be totally missing a very obvious point?
I wonder what
the next fad friend-cum-artistic site will be
I suggest Spacefuck
im on both
what does that mean?
xx
yeh
but give it a few years
Tramps are rubbish...
Facebook is a lot more Gareth than MySpace, there's a new app called 'MyFilter' which is very cool. You can install it from here - http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2418442017
friendster
traffic up by 40% since you ask !
sigh
i like MySpace. It's perfect for finding new music.
As a Britsh teenager
i dont use bebo, mainly because its appalling...
i dont use facebook either but i do use myspace, thus making me a tramp apparantly.
well no arguements here.
faceparty
first website I ever joined! my account:
"4,529 visitors since it was created on 21 December 2002"
Their chatrooms were fun.
ditch the horrible myspace designs
Head for last.fm social networking designed around music instead of an accidental add-on
Eels look a like???
Check this out then. This is a link (cut and paste) to a mypsace website for One Man and His Beard, he looks like E.
Dave (that's his real name) often comes to our gigs and has probably seen every band in Manchester at some time or other. He's a legend in Manchester.
but...
there is last.fm for that :)
I have a last.fm, i love it
MySpace is currently better for tunes. 30 second previews= BOO!
Does it really matter WHICH
social networking site you use? As long as you have at least one, people can contact you in some form or another.
It coyld be compared to living in different houses... many buildings don't look the same and some of them have different features and functions, but they all do the same general job.
bf
Is facebook not the scientology of the online networking world?
They were set up by someone with links to the FBI as a means of harvesting information from willing victims.
Can't believe they've stooped so low as to create a fake report that says myspace is for the 'lower orders' etc...so fucking transparent
My god, you're right
It's almost as bad as when they attacked the World Trade Centre or killed Diana.
AudioGalaxy
that was AWESOME
The whole internet
was set up by the US military as a way of keeping tabs on the world/spreading propoganda under the guise of user-generated chaos.
FAcebook is only suddenly popular with the "chattering classes" because Prince Willyham has joined it. Now Every posh man and his dog (and Jo Whiley) are signed up to it.
no...
...tho it was initially set up as a fail safe links between the us nuclear missile silos
Friendster!
I do! I do!
Still get friendster email updates in my junk box but never check it anymore.
What does it mean if you use Myspace AND Facebook? Does that make you an educated tramp?
Why Facebook wins
Facebook - not owned by Rupert Murdoch.
Also.....
FaceBook isn't shit like MySpace is.
Anyone think it's obvious that FaceBook is full of white uni students when it was only open to the general public in September 2006?
I hope this research didn't cost much money.
bf
AAAAARGH A SCOUSER! HELP!
^this
i couldn't remember what that was called
Here's a tip/favour
Get some current friends.
You're not wrong...
...so yeah, it's kinda obvious why you get more educated people on Facebook.
Are you sure?
Researchers at universities do not get paid a lot, if anything!
Im split
Facebook for Uni, Myspace for home
I think
you're getting confused with friends reunited
myspace may be crap
But its the best thing out there to find out about/listen to pretty much any band out there. last fm is a different kettle of fish.
And in terms of this 'social networking' nonsense, Facebook owns. (does anyone still use 'owns' anymore?)
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