A “white flight” to Facebook has turned MySpace into a black ghetto, according to a social analyst in the US.
Danah Boyd said Facebook’s arrival sparked a migration from MySpace of white users, the educated and the wealthy, while non-whites had stuck together on MySpace.
MySpace is owned by News Corp, the parent company of the publisher of NEWS.com.au and suffers from accusations of severe censorship resulting in thousands of user accounts being deleted every month.
“It wasn’t just anyone who left MySpace to go to Facebook,” Ms Boyd, who works with Microsoft Research New England, told a crowd at New York’s Democracy Forum.
“We might as well face an uncomfortable reality … what happened was modern day ‘white flight’.”
Ms Boyd said MySpace had become a digital “ghetto”.
“The people there are more likely to be brown or black and to have a set of values that terrifies white society,” she said.
Her interviews with American teenagers since 2006 showed that online migration mimicked the patterns of class groups’ movements across cities.
She found teens who preferred Facebook were far more likely to talk down to those who use MySpace than vice versa.
Ms Boyd said her research showed high school students found Facebook “more cultured” and “less cheesy” than MySpace.
“Any high school student who has a Facebook page will tell you MySpace users are more likely to be barely educated and obnoxious,” she said.
Ms Boyd also warned that the class divisions on social sites will harden over time.
“Their decision to (move to Facebook) was wrapped up in their connections to others, in their belief that a more peaceful, quiet, less-public space would be more idyllic.”
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they,you little puerto rican dik licking spic,you guys would turn beverly hills into a ghetto if you lived there,thats just what you mofos do.pisss on everything whites create.so fuk off,whites didn’t create ghettos you arsehole.
The whole internet is “barely educated and obnoxious.” Ever since I came online, I have seen the most egregious spelling of simple words and a level of ignorance that has made me lose faith in the value of education. Mediocrity is rewarded these days, and it is so true that the scum rises to the top.
The best defense against mind control/mass conditioning is a good education. In totalitarian societies, educated people are executed because they are feared.
Keep feeding your mind. Never stop feeding your mind. Big Brother will hate you for it. :twisted:
Education is its own reward these days. Don’t expect to be compensated for it anymore.
This is just stupid and nonsensical… it is the internet… you don’t have to associate with anyone unless you initiate…. so the article doesn’t make sense.
Don’t forget…whites made the ghettos of America by pouring drugs into and taking away jobs from the cities when white people left!
Black American culture is not African..Black it is white culture … values!!
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who ever wrote this artical
this a butch of B/S crap
:roll: you know what i am britsh, i could not be more white and i love myspace