Letters to the Editor
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What's Blogger Then?
If facebook is for preps and Myspace is for the ghetto, then who is Blogspot for? Or does that say more about my AGE than social status?
At the end of the day, facebook started off as a college students only site, so it makes sense that most of the users (even though it is now open access) are college educated. Myspace was first populated by teenagers, not college students, and its current demographics and (totally hideous) design reflect that.
Personally I hate both facebook and myspace, because I find the idea of a 'social networking' site bizzare. Who cares how many friends you have linked to your Myspace... Do you really know all those people and keep in touch with them? Does it make you cooler to have more contacts listed on facebook? I'm sorry, but I can honestly say I don't get it.
Theres been a LOT in the media about facebook/Myspace lately, but they aren't really anything new. Before them we had livejournal and blogger (better sites by far than myspace imo), and before that we had personal webpages, and before THAT we had bulletin board systems...
And yeah, myspace is ugly (not so much because people muck around with HTML as they use flashing hotpink text and its full of adverts) and mostly full of sad teenagers with too much angst. Facebook is boring and full of beer-swilling students. And the Internet is full (mostly) of people who just want to look up porn. Anyone want to give me a research grant to tell you more about that?