June 26, 2007
1, 2, 3, 4— The Internet has a Class War.
Do the social sites MySpace and Facebook reveal a class and educational divide?
Two recent internet articles tend to think so.
Link 1 and Link 2.
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- Joel Bernstein: “The police said it looked like he was a good chef. It looked like he had broth and everything...
- Michael Smith: So, she goes out to bingo, wins $50 and comes home to a clean house and meal and she’s...
- Michael Smith: I thought that said “choking chicken.” Disappointment.
- Aaron Winslow: I’m the horse. Everything else is everything else.
- Deron Bauman: Oh, yeah. Poop is the tits.
- Michael Smith: For some reason I don’t find dog poop on the carpet as repulsive as cat urine, anywhere.
- Rick Neece: Poop is better than pee, well, unless it’s loose. I’m sorry to admit I chuckled.
- Joel Bernstein: That’s pretty much when our cats get put to sleep.
- Deron Bauman: Franklin’s been pooping wherever and whenever lately. The other day, I let him in and he promptly...
- Rick Neece: So far as I know, he hasn’t gone on the carpet. It isn’t fuzzy. If he starts, I don’t...
- Rick Neece: We don’t have fuzzy rugs in the bathrooms no more. Some mornings, the tile is cold, but it’s...
- Rick Neece: I generally can’t smell cat-pee, unless it’s freshey in the litterbox when I harvest the...
- Deron Bauman: It’s a start.
- Joel Bernstein: The first of many things, no doubt.
- Deron Bauman: I’ll pick him up at eight. He may not like the way I smell.
UC needs to be a little more selective in their students when the PhD candidates are writing at a high school level. I can’t believe a PhD student would write something so irresponsible.
I can’t believe the BBC would cite it as a credible news source.
Ms. Boyd’s assertions may have merit, but her presentation is meta-unconvincing.
What I don’t understand is why this should be at all surprising. Facebook is organized around an academic frameworkâthe easiest networks to join are those for colleges, and once you join one, that’s the main thing that shows up in your “friends” space. Apparently my one networked college friend outweighs all my other friends, and although I don’t like this, I don’t see any way to change it in prefs; I can only leave the network.
The very name, “Facebook,” refers to the booklet many (most?) college students receive at the beginning of freshman year, so that they can learn their classmates’ names.
MySpace is just . . . a space. And a chaotic one, at that.
Where’s the news?
Meanwhile, most of the professionals I know are on LinkedIn if they’re on anything.