Comments on: The Facebook/MySpace class war

By: Kate

Kate — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:57:20 +0000

For social networking I’d agree that Facebook rules among young, upperwardly mobile 20-somethings (or the ones I know). But many of those people are also and My Space and use it to check out new music. In fact, I know plenty of people in their 30s who use My Space only as means of investigating new bands. And if you’re “old” like me (I’m 30), you also still use Friendster, although it’s dying a very sad, slow death.

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By: Paul Willis, Social Class, and the Digital Divide « Education and Class

Paul Willis, Social Class, and the Digital Divide « Education and Class — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:26:43 +0000

[...] Scott Rosenberg writes that while there have always been distinctions between what is “cool” to the elite few and what is accessible to the broader masses in the on-line world, The difference today, it seems to me, is not that social class divides extend from the offline world into online space, but rather that online interaction has assumed such a central place in the lives of young people that the divisions now matter far more. For teenagers trying to figure out who they are, the choice of social networking site has become one more agonizing crossroads of self-definition. [...]