Social networking social scientist Danah Boyd has just released a working draft of a paper looking at US class differences in facebook and myspace. The crux of her research is:
"well-to-do, stable American teens with "good prospects" end up on Facebook, while poor, queer, marginal and non-white teens end up on MySpace (even in the military, grunts are on MySpace and officers are on Facebook -- guess which one the military banned!"
From Boing Boing
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