Social networking websites are splitting along class lines
By
Jonathan Schofield
on June 25, 2007
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It's funny that she says she's not making any judgments on social classes or the various social networks. She's just saying.
I suspect this has something to do with facebook's user base originating with college students. IIRC, you used to need a .edu email to join facebook.
Originally, you needed a harvard.edu email to join facebook.
Ohdearlord, DB is at it again. The plural of anecdote is not ethnography.
The general conclusions Danah reaches are interesting, but I'm not sure that they are particularly significant. All products and services tend to have either a natural or an explicitly engineered target demographic.