Facebook 'sparked white flight from MySpace'

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Posted by narcism on Jul-03-2009 02:30:

Facebook 'sparked white flight from MySpace'

A "WHITE flight" to Facebook has turned MySpace into a black ghetto, according to a social analyst in the US.

Danah Boyd said Facebook's arrival sparked a migration from MySpace of white users, the educated and the wealthy, while non-whites had stuck together on MySpace.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/s...5014239,00.html

fuck, some peoples jobs are so easy, must of taken years for Danah to come to this conclusion

Posted by Lilith on Jul-03-2009 02:36:

yo dawg, we heard you liked to bling your internets while you myface so we blinged your interents while you internet!

Posted by narcism on Jul-03-2009 02:51:

so what is the 'social status' of Twitter users? bored housewives or ugly businessmen?

Posted by MrJiveBoJingles on Jul-03-2009 03:10:

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Originally posted by narcism
so what is the 'social status' of Twitter users? bored housewives or ugly businessmen?

Chronic narcissists and hipsters.

Posted by MrJiveBoJingles on Jul-03-2009 03:12:

From the article:

quote:
"The people there are more likely to be brown or black and to have a set of values that terrifies white society," she said.

This bit struck me as pretty odd. What does this sociologist think that the values of "black and brown" people are? And why would those values "terrify white society?" Does she think all non-whites are gangsters or something?

Posted by narcism on Jul-03-2009 04:22:

quote:
Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Chronic narcissists and hipsters.

i fit into that first category

Posted by daydreamer on Jul-03-2009 04:25:

so what if you have both, or all three (twitter included)

mixed?

Posted by bigjimslade002 on Jul-03-2009 04:27:

myspace name is officially being changed to mycrib

Posted by Darkarbiter on Jul-03-2009 04:42:

So basically if you're not black/brown, myspace is for emo's and satanists.

Hmm, sounds good.

Posted by boris_the_bear on Jul-03-2009 04:46:

that's rasict

Posted by bigjimslade002 on Jul-03-2009 05:27:

quote:
Originally posted by boris_the_bear
that's rasict

Posted by alcalaholic on Jul-04-2009 04:46:

"digital ghetto" is my new favorite term. That's great!

Posted by Vlad on Jul-04-2009 06:01:

Its because you needed a school email address to sign-up for facebook when it first started... and we all know black people are allergic to school.

Posted by winston on Jul-04-2009 09:51:

obviously, it's called cyber-gentrification

/ i don't believe in ghosts but theres someone at the door

Posted by Dieselboy_1206 on Jul-04-2009 15:32:

It is like she feels there is something that is keeping black or brown people from joining Facebook like some exclusive country club. Something very different than white flight. But awright!!

Posted by LoveHate on Jul-04-2009 15:36:

my grandma has facebook.