Without looking at the actual study yet, I have to wonder if the way these social networks were created has anything to do with this. Hmmm, didn’t Facebook originally only cater to those in school?
| Fans of MySpace and Facebook are divided by much more than which music they like, suggests a study. |
The research suggests those using Facebook come from wealthier homes and are more likely to attend college.
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The conclusions are based on interviews with many teenage users of the social networking sites by PhD student Danah Boyd from the School of Information Sciences at UC Berkeley.
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This division is just another way in which technology is mirroring societal values
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Characterising Facebook users she said: “They are in honors classes, looking forward to the prom, and live in a world dictated by after school activities.”
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By contrast, the average MySpace teenager tendeds to come from families where parents did not go to college, she said.
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“MySpace has most of the kids who are socially ostracised at school because they are geeks, freaks, or queers,” she said.
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Teenage users of both sites have very strong opinions about the social network they do not use, she noted.
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