[lbo-talk] Salon 2.0

[Charles Turner]

On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:49:36 -0400, Jeffrey Fisher wrote:
> it occurs to me to wonder, though . . . i know plenty of people -- mostly my
> students -- who have both facebook and myspace accounts. what i wonder is
> how much their networks in each overlap. throw linkedin in there, as well.
> it would be interesting if people started using different social networking
> apps for different things.

Danah Boyd has looked at this a bit for high schoolers, and she said 
that Ester Hargitai has been doing similar studies of college level use 
of Facebook and MySpace, but I haven't pursued the matter:

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From: zephoria at zephoria.org (danah boyd)
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I've been trying to write an essay for a while about the class  
dynamics around Facebook and MySpace.  I finally gave up and realized  
that I didn't have the proper words for talking about this issue so I  
wrote an essay with caveats.  I offer it to you to tear to shreds in  
the hopes that maybe some good can come out of it.  (I didn't include  
the full text here because it's long - i hope the link doesn't  
discourage folks from checking it out.)  Feedback is *very* welcome.

Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace
http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ClassDivisions.html

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