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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.
"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."
None of these things equate. Sounds like someone has a queer axe to grind from being ostracized in high school and has an inferiority complex because her parents didn't go to college.
What the hell is this self-involved freshman comp dreck doing on the front page?
You should be able to super-geek-power-activate this into a greasemonkey script in no time flat, giving MySpace all the blandness that you seek:
z ap_style_sheets
https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/zap.html#
(I'm not terribly fond of the styles of most MySpace pages, but your commentary is just a hair overwrought.)
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.