Thursday, July 9, 2009
‘White Flight’ Online? danah boyd asks at PDF

…boyd said it used to be that most kids were on both MySpace and Facebook, but then, during the 2006-2007 school year, boyd started noticing a trend: teens were beginning to decide whether to stay with MySpace or jump to Facebook—and increasingly, they were making that choice based on the social categories in which they placed themselves offline. “Increasingly,” says boyd,” (teens) were choosing the site that reflected who they saw as being ‘people like me’ and seeing the ‘other site’ as the place where the ‘other’ people go.”

‘White Flight’ Online? danah boyd asks at PDF

…boyd said it used to be that most kids were on both MySpace and Facebook, but then, during the 2006-2007 school year, boyd started noticing a trend: teens were beginning to decide whether to stay with MySpace or jump to Facebook—and increasingly, they were making that choice based on the social categories in which they placed themselves offline. “Increasingly,” says boyd,” (teens) were choosing the site that reflected who they saw as being ‘people like me’ and seeing the ‘other site’ as the place where the ‘other’ people go.”
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