Social networking sites MySpace and Facebook may seem fairly similar from the outside, but the two sites are increasingly splitting along class lines, according to a new report. In a nutshell, MySpace tends to be populated by teens who are younger and from lower-income families with less education, while Facebook tends to be the choice for the college and college-prep crowds, University of California at Berkeley researcher Danah Boyd asserts. “The Goodie Two-shoes, jocks, athletes or other ‘good’ kids are now going to Facebook,” Boyd writes in her report.
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MySpace Is Bart, Facebook Is Lisa
Posted by: Katherine Noyes June 26, 2007 03:06 PMSocial networking sites MySpace and Facebook may seem fairly similar from the outside, but the two sites are increasingly splitting along class lines, according to a new report. In a nutshell, MySpace tends to be populated by teens who are younger and from lower-income families with less education, while Facebook tends to be the choice for the college and college-prep crowds, University of California at Berkeley researcher Danah Boyd asserts. “The Goodie Two-shoes, jocks, athletes or other ‘good’ kids are now going to Facebook,” Boyd writes in her report.