Monday, June 25, 2007

Researcher: Latinos on MySpace, not Facebook

Here's the story on the Guardian's web site.
Social websites expose class divide.
Here's an excerpt:
Typical Facebook users, she (Danah Boyd, a researcher at the University of California and internet sociologist) said, "tend to come from families who emphasise education and going to college. They are primarily white, but not exclusively". MySpace, on the other hand, "is still home for Latino and Hispanic teens, immigrant teens" as well as "other kids who didn't play into the dominant high school popularity paradigm".

http://technology.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,330076129-117802,00.html

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