I’ve always felt that Facebook was a bit more classy than MySpace. Of course, Facebook started as a college-exclusive social network and has since expanded. The BBC reported on a new study about the social divide between Facebook and MySpace users.
“Facebook users tend to be white and come from families who are keen for children to get the most out of school and go on to college.” - BBC News
Danah Boyd, a PhD student from UC Berkeley’s School of Information Sciences conducted the interviews with users.
The fact that Facebook users tend to go to college is no su
rpruse due to its roots, but MySpace users tend to come from families where parents did not attend college. They also tend to come from immigrant families and are characterized at school as “socially ostracized.”
“Teenage users of both sites have very strong opinions about the social network they do not use”, said Boyd.
>> BostonNOW blogger bluecanary says, “The study also doesn’t address the crossovers who have accounts with both [sites]. Are they caught in iPergatory between the joiners and the freaks? Are they a geek by day and Rico Suave at night? All in all, this study gave me far more questions than answers.”
