Is Facebook racist?
Posted in Uncategorized on July 2, 2009 at 3:25 pm
By Nicole Kobie in Editorial
IT Pro

A Microsoft researcher has claimed that MySpace has become a “digital ghetto,” after white people abandoned it in favour of the more elite-seeming, culturally-superior Facebook.

Speaking at a conference in New York, Danah Boyd described the flight from MySpace to Facebook, claiming that the people who made the move are more likely to be educated, white and privileged:

The fact that digital migration is revealing the same social patterns as urban white flight should send warning signals to all of us… It should scare the hell out of us… When people are structurally divided, they do not share space with one another, they do not communicate with one another; this canon does breed intolerance.

Apparently, Facebookers mock MySpace users, saying only idiots would stick with the site, that it’s full of stupid people, Boyd said, after four years of research.

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This is really assinine. I have both Facebook and MySpace and prefer Facebook because it is less cluttered. Plain and simple. It has nothing to do with race.