The Reputations of MySpace and Facebook

Don’t know if you knew this but apparently Facebook is for “good kids” and MySpace is for the baddies.

From a Berkeley PhD:

“The goodie two-shoes, jocks, athletes or other ‘good’ kids are now going to Facebook. These kids tend to come from families who emphasize education and going to college. They are primarily white, but not exclusively,” she said.

“MySpace is still home for Latino/Hispanic teens, immigrant teens, ‘burnouts’, ‘alternative kids’, ‘art fags’, ‘punks’, ‘emos’, ‘goths’, ‘gangstas’, ‘queer kids’ and other kids who didn’t play into the dominant high school popularity paradigm. MySpace has most of the kids who are socially ostracised at school because they are geeks, freaks or queers.”

No wonder Merritt’s searches are so fun!

PS From research group IG Central: “If you still think of Facebook as a college social networking site, think again. Research from a recent user study shows that more than half of Facebook users are not currently enrolled in a university or college and that the site’s fastest-growing demo is the 25+ age group.”