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Jul. 11th, 2009 02:16 pmI found this article about class division and online social behavior fascinating enough to share; thank you, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
edge_of_within.
Social stratification in this country is not cleanly linked to race or education or socio-economic factors, although all are certainly present. More than anything, social stratification is a social networks issue. People connect to people who think like them and they think like the people with whom they are connected.
First of all, wow, she gave that as a speech? This is little jackel, rolling on her back showing all four paws and whining happily in intellectual submission. That there is some fiiiiine rhetoric.
The piece pointed out an area of unconscious privilege I wasn't even aware of. Of course, I'm doing exactly what the paper talks about and participating in the social fora my friends do. I have a Myspace page I haven't looked at for three years and a new Facebook that I will probably never use. Livejournal and FA satisfy my desire for online socialization, and they take up enough time that I wouldn't care to maintain another site. I can't even seem to keep my DA account active.
It's kind of embarrassing to admit, actually, but I joined Facebook because I wanted to make a page for Coba. Yeah, yeah, I'm a geek. it would have been really funny, and I would have used it to journal all of his training/showing/glam pictures etc. Alas, Facebook doesn't seem to work that way. And...oh hey, that article does apply to me...getting my dog a MySpace page is less appealing, since most of my friends are on Facebook. Irony!
edge_of_within.Social stratification in this country is not cleanly linked to race or education or socio-economic factors, although all are certainly present. More than anything, social stratification is a social networks issue. People connect to people who think like them and they think like the people with whom they are connected.
First of all, wow, she gave that as a speech? This is little jackel, rolling on her back showing all four paws and whining happily in intellectual submission. That there is some fiiiiine rhetoric.
The piece pointed out an area of unconscious privilege I wasn't even aware of. Of course, I'm doing exactly what the paper talks about and participating in the social fora my friends do. I have a Myspace page I haven't looked at for three years and a new Facebook that I will probably never use. Livejournal and FA satisfy my desire for online socialization, and they take up enough time that I wouldn't care to maintain another site. I can't even seem to keep my DA account active.
It's kind of embarrassing to admit, actually, but I joined Facebook because I wanted to make a page for Coba. Yeah, yeah, I'm a geek. it would have been really funny, and I would have used it to journal all of his training/showing/glam pictures etc. Alas, Facebook doesn't seem to work that way. And...oh hey, that article does apply to me...getting my dog a MySpace page is less appealing, since most of my friends are on Facebook. Irony!
