Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace

I haven’t yet had enough time (being at work currently) to sit through this (article? extended blog entry?) regarding how class affects online social networks. From my quick cursory glance it is a sloppy piece of scholarship, and attempts to make up for its rough-shod analysis by offering “disclaimers” of a sort. Still, the point is interesting, if not rather obvious. I have been, for some time, speaking about the trend away from the myspace ghetto to the whiter, cleaner and wealthier Facebook. Now, moving to Facebook is not sufficient, one needs appropriate networks. Those with “no network” are seen as “uneducated” and “poor”, and certainly “Johnny come lately” (since Facebook originally required a university affiliation. It should be noted that I currently have one regional network and two university networks, although I could/should/will be adding a third as soon as I decide to be less lazy and get my undergrad alumni email.

When I have some more time I will be blogging a more thorough analysis of this piece over at the prestigious iqdupont.com/blog.