http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ClassDivisions.html

"The goodie two shoes, jocks, athletes, or other "good" kids are now going to Facebook. These kids tend to come from families who emphasize education and going to college. They are part of what we'd call hegemonic society. They are primarily white, but not exclusively. They are in honors classes, looking forward to the prom, and live in a world dictated by after school activities.

MySpace is still home for Latino/Hispanic teens, immigrant teens, "burnouts," "alternative kids," "art fags," punks, emos, goths, gangstas, queer kids, and other kids who didn't play into the dominant high school popularity paradigm. These are kids whose parents didn't go to college, who are expected to get a job when they finish high school. Teens who are really into music or in a band are on MySpace. MySpace has most of the kids who are socially ostracized at school because they are geeks, freaks, or queers."

Huh, this would explain a lot...

They used "art fags" in an article!?!? That's like my favorite term ever.

That pretty much sums it up. Facebook was originally for college students only. I don't think this was the case with MySpace.

thats retarded, theres no backup in the article to support it, its only oppinions. sounds written by a queer without an account on either website :dunno: I think it just seems like facebook is more clean cut cause nobody has custom layouts, just white and blue

the article is actually quite accurate.

makes sense.. on facebook I always find myself wondering why these people haven't gotten over high school yet

thats retarded, theres no backup in the article to support it, its only oppinions. sounds written by a queer without an account on either website :dunno: I think it just seems like facebook is more clean cut cause nobody has custom layouts, just white and blue

Well nothing like this is absolute. But I think for the most part it's pretty much right on.

makes sense.. on facebook I always find myself wondering why these people haven't gotten over high school yet

Depends on who your friends are, I guess. Kind of funny though, there's a few people who have added me as a friend that I knew in high school. The popular kids still seem like they're living in high school, but the "geeks" or whatever seem to move on and mature a little quicker.

I have accounts on both. MySpace lets me keep in touch with a lot of people from home that I wouldn't talk to normally. Facebook kept me connected with people at school, and meet a lot of new people there. It was quite simple to meet a girl at a bar, and then link up with her on Facebook.

Depends on who your friends are, I guess. Kind of funny though, there's a few people who have added me as a friend that I knew in high school. The popular kids still seem like they're living in high school, but the "geeks" or whatever seem to move on and mature a little quicker.

basically.. the geeks are out getting married while the "omg at least I was cool in HS" kids are getting shitfaced nightly and gaining 25 lbs

I was cool in highschool.

Damn.

and now you're shitfaced and fat :P

Well, thank you.

look at my heart of gold coming out again

You're so sweet

thats retarded, theres no backup in the article to support it, its only oppinions. sounds written by a queer without an account on either website :dunno: I think it just seems like facebook is more clean cut cause nobody has custom layouts, just white and blue

Well, in the beginning of the essay, it does read:

"For the academics reading this, I want to highlight that this is not an academic article. It is not trying to be. It is based on my observations in the field, but I'm not trying to situate or theorize what is going on. I've chosen terms meant to convey impressions, but I know that they are not precise uses of these terms. Hopefully, one day, I can get the words together to actually write an academic article about this topic, but I felt as though this is too important of an issue to sit on while I find the words. So I wrote it knowing that it would piss many off. The academic side of me feels extremely guilty about this; the activist side of me finds it too critical to go unacknowledged."

So yeah, definitively a far cry from definitive science, but it still brings up a few interesting points that would be worth following up on with a serious study or two.