Class and cultural divide.
Facebook: School oriented college kids
MySpace
- newer immigrants and ethnics whose parents are not interested in higher education
- socially ostracized teens (burnouts, alternative kids, art fags punks, emos, goths, gangstas, queers, geeks, freaks)
- teens who are really into music or in a band
These types of media stories are much ado about nothing. What they are selling you is literally of no value.
Facebook (est. 2004) required a .edu email address to join, until about 7 months ago. Who has .edu addresses? Colleges and universities. Is it any surprise, then, that the vast majority of Facebook users are college and university students or grads? Not really. They were (until recently) the only people who could join.
Looming cultural divide or merely an artifact of the former membership requirements? Check again in a couple of years and see whether the freaks/geeks divide still exists. My bet is, it won't.
Posted by: Chris Taylor | June 27, 2007 at 12:25 PM