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POPSFacebook vs Myspace - a racial divide. Very interesting perspective by Danah Boyd that the major social networking sites are becoming defined by race and that, in so doing, social networking could actually end up causing greater social divisions in society, not less.
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POPSMyspace: The Ghetto of the Internet? Personally, I have no space of my own, I don't book my face, and I sure as HELL don't tweet. LiveJournal.com: When you care more about what people are thinking than what they're doing. And by the way... Peet's is more cultured than Starbucks, and Jazz is more cultured than bubblegum pop. That's neither good nor bad, but it is a fact. I'm just sayin'...
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POPSSpying Parents: When Worrying Becomes Stalking "The culture of fear," according to Danah Boyd, a fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, "says that if you are not monitoring, you are a bad parent. Apparently, we're supposed to be stalking our kids." Having privatized child raising, we seem to be turning parents into private eyes. Teens are never really on their own. We may be protecting them right out of the ability to make their own decisions. Including their own mistakes. Meanwhile, we may be raising a generation with low expectations of public privacy, trained by Big Mother to accept Big Brother.
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POPSMySpace vs. Facebook - The New Digital Divide "Mashup" was a social media conference held earlier this year by YPulse.com, a popular blog for marketers targeting the Generation Y audience. One of the keynoters, Danah Boyd, briefly discussed an interesting trend regarding the different audiences that MySpace and Facebook serve. Is there a digital divide now among social networking sites? Does Facebook attract more upwardly-mobile high school students (i.e. - those that are college bound) while MySpace attracts kids who just want to hang out and have fun? Watch the keynote videos on ypulsecasts.com and voice your opinion.
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POPSViewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace
This is of particular interest to me, as I am new to Facebook (though I had been curious after learning of their widget API), and I was at first amazed at the loops I had to jump through to add a friend. I do not have a single e-mail address as a point of contact, and that is what had bound students to their colleges, and then high schools. It is important to note how members of socio-economic classes view each other. Honestly, it makes me want to invite every person I know of, to flood the user base with my peers. The thing that bothers me (besides my own biases and reactionary behavior in this matter) is that I don't know if I am an accurate representative of the lower classes as I may have been in the past. The technorati, that is the banner I fly under, and it is something to consider as I make choices in my career and hobbies that will no doubt create an impact beyond my immediate environment. This really makes me want to teach computer classes.
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POPSSocial Sites Reveal A Cultural Divide... Maybe The following cultural divisions have allegedly been drawn in a recent "preliminary draft" of research from Danah Boyd (a PhD student at UC Berkeley, which is reason for skepticism on it's own.) It'll be interesting to see what the final report looks like, but the preliminary results are worthy of testing by savvy New Media marketers. From our experience with 30-plus crowd in the major social networks, MySpace is home to more direct sales/network marketing types while FaceBook tends to be more college grads (but mostly corporate worker bees.) LinkedIn and eCademy are where you'll find more business owners and high level executives.
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POPSETech 2006: Danah Boyd and G/localization Fascinating presentation by Danah Boyd of the UC Berkeley School of Information. She's studying MySpace and has significant insights into the make up of online communities. One thing to think about: "accidental interactions" and how it relates to Clipmarks -- I love the different (sometimes random) ways I connect with other clippers. She also spoke about Craigslist/Flickr/MySpace and their evolution. All three had/have... * passionate designers and users * organic growth * public personalities * an emergent culture Also... Designing through Embeddedness: 1. Passion is EVERYTHING 2. Protect from burn-out 3. Diversify your staff 4. Enable and empower, don't control 5. Do not overdesign! 6. Integrate designers and customer support 7. Stay engaged with the community 8. Document cultural evolution Danah's site: http://www.zephoria.org/t
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