I had heard it wasn’t about social class so much as Facebook was more of a myspace for grown ups. The younger crowd likes myspace. The old folks like the interactivity of facebook.
There’s a part in the article about how the Anne Owens lady interviewed a student who said something to the effect of “I don’t want to be racist, but like, MySpace is just ghetto.” The article then goes on to says that “that’s when it hit her [Owens]”. Owens then proceeds to talk about how Facebook was essentially being overwhelmingly used by whites in an attempt to separate themselves from the “ghetto” users on MySpace.
Total bull.
A friend from high school started a Facebook page to help coordinate the high school reunion and to get people who lived far away from our home town to join in the festivities. That’s when I joined FB, and I’ve reconnected with a lot of friends who live all over the country. All of my friends on FB are college educated with a few exceptions. My friends where we live now are not on my FB friends list though we have talked about how we all have FB accounts. (a few exceptions to that as well)
Our college student daughter signed up for FB due to pressure from her boss and coworkers. She doesn’t care for it. She doesn’t do MySpace either. Our high school daughter has a MySpace page, but she is checking it less and less in favor of Facebook. She and her classmates use FB primarily for communicating outside of school. She was helping someone with homework via FB the other night. Her friends who are not of a higher intellect flock to MySpace. So I guess the ‘class’ or ‘education level’ thing applies even to high schoolers.