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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?

1 posted on 07/16/2010 6:59:51 AM PDT by flowerplough
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To: flowerplough

It logically follows then that we should expect Al Sharpton to take over as spokesman for MySpace?


2 posted on 07/16/2010 7:02:32 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: flowerplough

Pure racist tripe.


3 posted on 07/16/2010 7:02:58 AM PDT by Paladin2
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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.


6 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)
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To: flowerplough

Ironic yet funny how everything these days is so race oriented, huh? “Whites” ...lulz. =.=


8 posted on 07/16/2010 7:10:38 AM PDT by cranked
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To: flowerplough

I think Facebook just happened to catch on big.


9 posted on 07/16/2010 7:10:59 AM PDT by Jack Wilson
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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.


11 posted on 07/16/2010 7:18:27 AM PDT by Mr. Bird
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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.


12 posted on 07/16/2010 7:18:58 AM PDT by 12Gauge687 (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice)
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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.


13 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)
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To: flowerplough
My coffee's too hot.

Racist coffee.

15 posted on 07/16/2010 7:21:33 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: flowerplough

Kinda reminds me of what happened to the CB radio craze of the 70’s


19 posted on 07/16/2010 7:30:10 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom sarc ;))
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To: flowerplough
Sounds like they are blaming the victim for not tolerating the crime. . ▼
21 posted on 07/16/2010 7:42:06 AM PDT by ßuddaßudd (7 days - 7 ways Guero >>> with a floating, shifting, ever changing persona.....)
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To: flowerplough
danah boyd is a social scientist at Microsoft Research and a research associate at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. In her research, she examines everyday practices involving social media, with specific attention to youth participation. Lately, she has been focused on issues related to privacy, publicity, and visibility. She recently co-authored Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media. She is currently co-directing the Youth and Media Policy Working Group, funded by the MacArthur Foundation.

Translation: Danah Boyd lives off student tuition and taxpayer funded grants to perform unnecessary research that is of no value to anyone other than those in her mentally deranged academic circle.
23 posted on 07/16/2010 7:45:25 AM PDT by TSgt (We will always be prepared, so we may always be free. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: flowerplough

Another nugget of self-perceived genius from Danah:

my queer identity
http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2004/12/09/my_queer_identity.html
A few days ago, an anonymous reader reached out to me to kindly inform me that i could be saved, offering me prayers in my path to finding Jesus.

I decided to take this opportunity to be upfront about my sexuality and my views for those who don’t know me so well and for those of you who are struggling with attacks or pressure or guilt because of your sexuality. I believe that no one has the right to make you feel badly for your sexuality and i believe that the struggle we all face is how to find peace and comfort in who we are and how we interact with others. It is with a grounded sense of self that is very rooted in my own religious values that i offer you my views on sexuality. They don’t have to be your views, but you can only respect me if you respect that this is who i am and what i believe.

I have strong religious values and beliefs, but they do not believe that guilt, sin, self or projected torture, hate, intolerance, self, or enemies are in any way productive or valuable. My beliefs are rooted strongly in love, respect, honor and kindness. I do not believe that there is ever anything wrong about rooting love in consensual sex. I believe that social efforts to construct something as ‘wrong’ are simply mechanisms to assert power and control, an attempt to play God, not to honor God. In my view, honoring God means honoring yourself and others, working to release yourself of hatred and judgment, finding ways of respecting all forms of life. God’s work means finding peace beyond suffering in order to release ourselves from the cycle of birth/death. No part of God’s work means increasing suffering for anyone in any form.


24 posted on 07/16/2010 7:48:24 AM PDT by TSgt (We will always be prepared, so we may always be free. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: flowerplough

Even before I got on Myspace I viewed it as immature. Both the setup and most of the people using it. Facebook is a lot better laid out and easier to use, and the people using it connected with a much larger market (parents and grandparents are joining) than Myspace ever did.


25 posted on 07/16/2010 7:59:29 AM PDT by Styria
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To: flowerplough

Only a liberal can look at common sense and see racism

You go and hang out where your friends are.

Simple as that

I dont know anyone on MySpace, so I never go there- am I a white racist because of that?


26 posted on 07/16/2010 8:21:35 AM PDT by Mr. K (Physically unable to proofread- I swear I try!)
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To: flowerplough

I use FB, not Myspace. With that said, I think FB is based on dynamically updated content whereas Myspace much more static. IOW Myspace is sort of 2004-2005 state of the art technology, whereas FB is more 2008-2010. And probably more mobile friendly. Which is why I think initially FB caught on. And of course, from there, there is the snowball effect where popularity begets popularity. Why does everything have to be racial?


28 posted on 07/16/2010 9:19:08 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: flowerplough

Myspace was bought by FOX and that is what finally killed it off. Not that it wasn’t dying anyway.


30 posted on 07/16/2010 11:03:18 AM PDT by packrat35 (Planned Parenthood... killing more blacks than the Ku Klux Klan could have ever dreamed of.)
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To: flowerplough

I think Facebook is easier to maintain than Myspace.

While you could personalize your Myspace page more than your Facebook one, it actually is more annoying to use as a social network.

Myspace is a network to promote. It gives you more of a platform to talk about yourself and display who you are. Facebook seems more social-oriented.

I don’t think it has anything to do with race, but there again, the media will do anything to divide us. Including ridiculous claims such as these.


32 posted on 07/16/2010 1:01:45 PM PDT by JenB987 (I'm still an American and 'til they take that away from me there's no day ruined. - El Rushbo)
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To: flowerplough

face book..the CIA conspiracy
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12685


33 posted on 07/16/2010 2:49:25 PM PDT by OL Hickory (Jesus and the American soldier-1 died for your soul/1 died for your freedom)
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