Myspace vs. Facebook: Age, class, demographics

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wow…just wow.

Is her video in response to something else or did it just pop out of the blue?

well… that was amazing. Where did that come from. Awesome find jacob

If it is in response to anything in particular there’s no link or connection in the post itself. It’s also the only post on LILSHOWSTOPPA’s account, so I’d imagine it was lifted from somewhere or just used to post on her myspace one time. I really don’t know, but I agree that it’s amazing.

i enjoyed looking at her profile and the comments people left. my personal fav is ninavengeance’s “i can throw you”.

So poetic…
quite amazing how in this short haiku she managed to capture the spirit of a whole generation.

Me too…I wowed also….

hmm I think this is a great example of the “look at me, look at me” syndrome…

but yes, wowzers.

“THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THE UNINHIBITED”

I don’t know about you, but the majority of my life is still lived offline, and that goes for the majority of my personal life.

I have a hard time understanding what the appeal is of posting really personal info, or even just play-by-play of your life online. I have to think that it can’t just be to let your friends know what you’re up to: wouldn’t they more or less already know?

There’s something to this whole concept of an INVISIBLE AUDIENCE…I first started thinking about it last year when I read this great article in New York mag (that actually quotes Clay Shirky): SAY EVERYTHING

When I read the article I couldn’t help but wonder if there was some sort of psychological change taking place in the generation that grew up with SNSes, never knowing a social world without them.

If so much of your identity is crafted and played out online for a (partly or majority) invisible audience, is performance becoming a bigger part of identity formation for these teens? Is exhibitionism? The line that really got me in the article was when one girl aks “what’s the point of going to a party if you’re not going to have your picture taken?”

I think Danah Boyd really hit the nerve of one of the bigger shifts SNSes are causing…

“THE FUTURE IS FOR THE UNINHIBITED”

I think Danah Boyd has hit a major nerve of the psychological and sociological transformation occurring as SNSes have become endemic to social life.

I read this great article in New York mag called SAY EVERYTHING about a year ago (it actually quotes Clay Shirky quite a bit) and began to wonder if the emphasis on being “seen” even by an INVISIBLE AUDIENCE you never encounter is changing the way the kids who’ve grown up with SNSes identify or develop their personalities.

If so much of your identity is crafted and played out online, is performance becoming a bigger part of how the so-called MySpace Generation see themselves? Is exhibitionism? Does an experience still count if it isnt viewed online by someone, anyone? Are these kids even more conscious than your average teen of what their peers think or how they’re perceived because of the constant audience, or is it liberating because they have an outlet for expression they might not if their social lives were only lived in the cafeteria.

The line that got me most in the article was when one girl asks “what’s the point of going to a party if you’re not going to have your picture taken?”

Huh?

Is it sad that I went to school with people like this?

ugh that’s disturbing. Even more awkward my little cousin that I nannied for all last summer asked me to please set up a myspace account for him so that we could be myspace friends when I went back to school. I had never felt so old AND creepy all at once.

I don’t see any discrepancies here. This is generally how I conduct myself on the Internet as well. If you have a problem with that you can hit me up on my mothaf*#!%@ Facebook beeyotch.

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See, that doesn’t even sound right. I wouldn’t have thought of it otherwise, but it clearly fits better with MySpace. Interesting how it’s garnered the unconscious association of being a little less…sophisticated.