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Social networking class division

Rich kids use Facebook and working class kids are hooked on MySpace. That’s the contention of a PhD candidate Danah Boyd at the University of California, Berkeley, in the United States.

Boyd writes: “MySpace and Facebook are new representations of the class divide in American youth… The goodie-two-shoes, jocks, athletes, or other ‘good’ kids are now going to Facebook. These kids tend to come from families who emphasise education and going to college. They are part of what we’d call hegemonic society.