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Tech: Is leaving MySpace for Facebook somehow racist?

  • The fact that digital migration is revealing the same social patterns as urban white flight should send warning signals to all of us. It should scare the hell out of us.
  • Internet smart person Danah Boyd • On the uncomfortable truth that people are going to Facebook instead of MySpace, and those still on MySpace are the equivalent of city-dwellers during the white flight era. Is some sort of racism going on? Are people under the assumption that people on MySpace are lower-class cretins? We argue that it’s because MySpace isn’t a place for friends anymore. • source

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  • Tim Collins

    It’s interesting but kind of retarded. I don’t use MySpace because I don’t want to see big, obnoxious, glittering graphics while being bombarded with songs I don’t want to listen to on every page. Facebook is simply a less intrusive, more streamlined website that appeals to my taste, not because there are uneducated poor people on MySpace. If I don’t deal with them in life, why should I do it on the internet?

  • Rycon Payne

    Myspace is the geocities of todays internet. I can support this claim quite easily.

    Geocities: Animated Gifs, Useless pages with mostly useless information, and .midi or .wav files playing without any warning whatsoever.

    Myspace: Animated gifs full of glitter and sparkes telling you “Happy Monday!”, mostly useless personal information that you don’t care about, music playing in the background you never asked for.

    Yeah, just updated geocities, nothing more.

  • Rycon Payne

    Myspace is the geocities of todays internet. I can support this claim quite easily.

    Geocities: Animated Gifs, Useless pages with mostly useless information, and .midi or .wav files playing without any warning whatsoever.

    Myspace: Animated gifs full of glitter and sparkes telling you “Happy Monday!”, mostly useless personal information that you don’t care about, music playing in the background you never asked for.

    Yeah, just updated geocities, nothing more.

  • Rycon Payne

    Myspace is the geocities of todays internet. I can support this claim quite easily.

    Geocities: Animated Gifs, Useless pages with mostly useless information, and .midi or .wav files playing without any warning whatsoever.

    Myspace: Animated gifs full of glitter and sparkes telling you “Happy Monday!”, mostly useless personal information that you don’t care about, music playing in the background you never asked for.

    Yeah, just updated geocities, nothing more.

 

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