Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and Myspace

This blog is in response to the Boyd article

First of all, I found it amusing when "Facebookers' described MySpace as being "so lame" and "so middle school" etc etc. The description of gaudy/glitzy/bling were also entertaining. To tell you the truth, I do not like MySpace because too many users have bright and busy backgrounds, which make text hard to read. Not to mention that adding music to MySpace also means being subjected to other peoples taste in music, which may not meet my own music tastes.

Being a sociologist, it really irked me that the methodology was written at the end of the article. But it's not an academic article so I guess I can let it slide.

I don't know what I think about the class usage of the two social sites, but I do agree that each appeals to different demographics. Myspace users do not like that they cannot customize Facebook the same way that they can to Myspace and Facebook users think Myspace is too messy. It only makes sense these differences cause users to prefer one over the other.