Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace

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<p><a href="http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ClassDivisions.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ClassDivisions.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>full article here</p>

<p>Comments:</p>

<p><a href="http://slashdot.org/articles/07/06/25/1424243.shtml%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://slashdot.org/articles/07/06/25/1424243.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p><a href="http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2007/06/24/viewing_america.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2007/06/24/viewing_america.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>I'm at work and can't write a coherent response right now, but this is fascinating. Thanks for posting!</p>

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<p>Thanks for the article, man. It definitely holds some truth. I go to Georgetown and I'm in a facebook group that suggest that facebook go back to being the elite site that it was, where only students from elite college institutions could join the facebook community. I freaking hate myspace it has so muich crap on it. But, im slowly beginning to hate facebook as well; what is up with all of those "applications"? It's slowly becoming another myspace, unfortunately.</p>

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<p>Interesting.</p>

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<p>Pretty obvious.</p>

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<p>Yes, obvious but true and it's good to see that someone dissected it.</p>

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<p>Wow. That feels like it should have some holes in it, but I can't think of a good response. Kudos to the writer.</p>

<p>Maybe I'll play devil's advocate in the morning.</p>

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<p>Seeing as how Facebook was initially for college students, how is it a surprise that it draws a more elite and mainstream crowd? Every day, Facebook users bemoan the fact that non-college people are joining Facebook. Let's dissect what that really means: </p>

<p>"I want our website to be available to only those who can afford $20 000 - $40 000 a year on obtaining an education that will help them join or stay in the upper middle class (or above)."</p>

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<p>This article presents alot of stereotypes, but she did say thats how she divided the classes. I agree with the extensive information on the military, but teens are really hard to put in one group. I am on oth facebook and myspace. I'm not white and I'm an immigrant. I do want to college, just about everybody i know wants to(facebook or myspace)</p>