Class Divisions

Viewing American Class Divisions through Facebook and MySpace by Danah Boyd. Sometimes writing style can make or break a piece of written work and in this case the conversation feel of Danah's writing made it that much more enjoyable. This article was written about 4 years ago and I understand that their was a shift and that the "subaltern" stayed with Myspace and the "hegemonic" went to Facebook therefore creating a cultural/societal divide. But I work in a "subaltern" school district and tutor students at URI from "subaltern" homes and yet none of them know what Myspace is. My First graders have Facebook accounts because their family members do. So in my experience the status divided created between Facebook and Myspace users is becoming less and less. And if people want to exclude others on Facebook then they can do that just as easily through privacy setting, not accepting friend requests, and unfriending someone. Facebook can now be like any other societal click we don't need Myspace to be the bad guy anymore because Facebook can serve the role of good, bad and indifferent for everyone.