{"id":424,"date":"2007-06-26T18:57:37","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T18:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/technology\/social-networking-websites\/"},"modified":"2010-03-23T21:42:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T21:42:35","slug":"social-networking-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/lifestyle\/social-networking-websites\/","title":{"rendered":"Social networking websites"},"content":{"rendered":"

Myspace, Bebo, Facebook and LinkedIn.<\/strong> Where do you stand? <\/p>\n

According to the research, the decision to join any social networking websites is based on the education and upbringing. <\/p>\n

Danah Boyd, a researcher at the University of California and internet sociologist spent nine months interviewing the US teenagers who uses these social networking websites and her data shows a clear gap between the populations of each sites. <\/p>\n

The data suggests Facebook <\/strong>members are more likely to be white, univeristy graduates and from the families who emphasize education and going to college, whereas Myspace <\/strong> is the domain of non-white working class folk,Latino, Hispanic and immigrants teens. Myspace is a cool thing for High school teens.<\/p>\n

Boyd said,   <\/strong><\/p>\n

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The divide is very much clear in US Army, where the Soldiers of US Army are mainly on MySpace<\/strong> and Officers are on FaceBook<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A month ago, the US Army banned MySpace but not Facebook which clearly shows the division in US Army.<\/p>\n

Bebo has established itself as site for school kids, while LinkedIn is the choice of business community<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
MYSPACE<\/strong><\/td>\nBEBO<\/strong><\/td>\nLINKEDIN<\/strong><\/td>\nFACEBOOK<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"MYSPACE\"<\/td>\n\"BEBO\"<\/a><\/td>\n\"LINKEDIN\"<\/a><\/td>\n\"FACEBOOK\"<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Teenagers uses it<\/td>\nPre – Myspace teenagers uses it<\/td>\nMedia\/Business networking people uses it<\/td>\nEveryone uses it <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dominated by Non-white and working class people<\/td>\nDominated by school kids<\/td>\nDominated by Media\/Business community<\/td>\nDominated by white people<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Anyone can see your profile<\/td>\nIts full of kids <\/td>\nvery limited <\/td>\nvery addictive and tempting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

How Myspace and Facebook started?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Myspace was founded in 2003 and became such a huge hit particularly among young music fans that Media moughal Rupert Murdoch paid \u00c2\u00a3290 million for it in 2005. Myspace recently became the most visited site on the web.<\/p>\n

Facebook started by Harvard University student Mark Zuckerberg in 2004 and now has a 3.5 million members in the UK which includes the high profile Prince William. The dotcom pioneer Yahoo! is reputed to have offered $1.6bn for the company last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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