American Class Divisions Through Facebook and MySpace

Jamie found this paper earlier about American Class Divisions and Facebook and MySpace. The paper talks about the history of the two sites, what groups tend to use what site. They also talk about what proponents of each site think of the other. It's actually an interesting read and worth your time.

Comments

Amusing, yet not suprising

[Aranykai]

For all of 2005 and most of 2006, MySpace was the cool thing for high school teens and Facebook was the cool thing for college students. This is not to say that MySpace was solely high school or Facebook solely college, but there was a dominating age division that played out in the cultural sphere. Ok, so this equates to the rule that little kids think older kids are automatically cool. Not worth reading the whole paper imho. Nothing new here.

Re:Amusing, yet not suprising

[OS24Ever]

There is nothing new there, just not what you thought you read.

It's the Preps vs the Freaks & Geeks. It's an age old war fought in every school across America for the last 50 years. There are the cool kids, the wanna-be cool kids, the geeks/nerds/av club folks, and the freaks/stoners.

The Cool Kids took over Face book due to its invite only nature, etc. Myspace hung out with the freaks & geeks...