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Did Whites Flee the 'Digital Ghetto' of MySpace?
MIT's Technology Review ^
| 14 July
| Christopher Mims
Posted on 07/16/2010 6:59:50 AM PDT by flowerplough
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Facebook - "with digital fences to keep out strangers," versus " MySpace's inability to deal with spammers".
You make the call.
White [and Asian] flight, or common sense?
To: flowerplough
It logically follows then that we should expect Al Sharpton to take over as spokesman for MySpace?
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posted on
07/16/2010 7:02:32 AM PDT
by
PGR88
To: flowerplough
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posted on
07/16/2010 7:02:58 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: PGR88
Well Obama is turning America into Detroit ...
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posted on
07/16/2010 7:05:26 AM PDT
by
Tarpon
(Obama-Speak ... the fusion of sophistry and Newspeak. It's not a gift, it's just lies.)
To: PGR88
Well Obama is turning America into Detroit ...
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posted on
07/16/2010 7:05:45 AM PDT
by
Tarpon
(Obama-Speak ... the fusion of sophistry and Newspeak. It's not a gift, it's just lies.)
To: flowerplough
Myspace was originally created for bands and that’s what I use it for..to search out music of the genre I enjoy. That’s it. I just never got into social websites. They are just glorified dating sites for guys to try and hunt down a piece of ass and for girls to gossip.
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posted on
07/16/2010 7:06:13 AM PDT
by
MAD-AS-HELL
(Hope and Change. Rhetoric embraced by the Insane - Obama, The Chump in Charge)
To: Paladin2
I agree, this is not a race issue, myspace started to suck and alternatives were found.
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posted on
07/16/2010 7:06:55 AM PDT
by
edcoil
(OK, so what's the speed of dark?)
To: flowerplough
Ironic yet funny how everything these days is so race oriented, huh? “Whites” ...lulz. =.=
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posted on
07/16/2010 7:10:38 AM PDT
by
cranked
To: flowerplough
I think Facebook just happened to catch on big.
To: edcoil
i dunno much about myspace, but why is facebook better than myspace.
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posted on
07/16/2010 7:15:59 AM PDT
by
4rcane
To: flowerplough
Given that non-white, non-asian Myspace users have the same access to FB as whites and asians, I’m finding it hard to lend the theory any credence without a white hood on my head.
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posted on
07/16/2010 7:18:27 AM PDT
by
Mr. Bird
To: flowerplough
Sort of like that race-baiting “news” article in Newsweek written by some kid named Graham that was mentioned on The Factor last night. The kid narrowed the New Black Panther intimidation case into one about whites whining. Megyn Kelly put her legal and journalism backgrounds against the kid’s and can we say, “No contest!”
Maybe, just maybe, a lot of the new Facebook folks were simply tired of spam.
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posted on
07/16/2010 7:18:58 AM PDT
by
12Gauge687
(Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice)
To: flowerplough
The obvious solution is to force every white person in America to create a MySpace login AND use it at least once a day. Failure to do so will result in prosecution by Eric Holder’s “Justice” Department, as soon as the Arizona lawsuit is finished, and the paperwork for dismissing the cases against the New Black Panthers and the sanctuary cities is pushed through.
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posted on
07/16/2010 7:20:00 AM PDT
by
Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
(The success of Darwinism was accompanied by a decline in scientific integrity. - Dr. Wm R. Thompson)
To: 4rcane
Long list but also, not flavor of the month.
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posted on
07/16/2010 7:20:42 AM PDT
by
edcoil
(OK, so what's the speed of dark?)
To: flowerplough
My coffee's too hot.
Racist coffee.
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posted on
07/16/2010 7:21:33 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: cranked
Really! Can't we move forward on race instead of just drudging up the past forever?
The narrative that these digital suburbs were safer than the city enhanced its desirability, particularly for those who had no interest in interacting with people who were different.
Plu-ease! Narrative? What narrative? Everybody has the right to interact with who they want to. Sometimes it's reciprocated, sometimes not. That's life.
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posted on
07/16/2010 7:21:35 AM PDT
by
Clock King
(Ellisworth Toohey was right: My head's gonna explode.)
To: Clock King
I called a bunch of whining black women “cows” and someone accused me of being racist. I said all the cows around my farm are white. And they are.
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posted on
07/16/2010 7:26:46 AM PDT
by
RobRoy
(The US Today: Revelation 18:4)
To: MAD-AS-HELL
I just never got into social websites. They are just glorified dating sites for guys to try and hunt down a piece of ass and for girls to gossip.
I disagree. Facebook is great for staying in touch with friends and family, events, pictures, etc.. One just needs to make sure they bolt down the security settings and don't get overly personal.
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posted on
07/16/2010 7:29:55 AM PDT
by
TSgt
(We will always be prepared, so we may always be free. - Ronald Reagan)
To: flowerplough
Kinda reminds me of what happened to the CB radio craze of the 70’s
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posted on
07/16/2010 7:30:10 AM PDT
by
al baby
(Hi Mom sarc ;))
To: al baby
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posted on
07/16/2010 7:35:53 AM PDT
by
dasboot
(Down: up. Up: down.)
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