Facebook 'sparked white flight from MySpace'

[Angry Blue Bird of Death]

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,,25723022-2,00.html

A "WHITE flight" to Facebook has turned MySpace into a black ghetto, according to a social analyst in the US.

Danah Boyd said Facebook's arrival sparked a migration from MySpace of white users, the educated and the wealthy, while non-whites had stuck together on MySpace.

"It wasn't just anyone who left MySpace to go to Facebook," Ms Boyd, who works with Microsoft Research New England, told a crowd at New York's Democracy Forum.

"We might as well face an uncomfortable reality ... what happened was modern day 'white flight'."

Ms Boyd said MySpace had become a digital "ghetto".

"The people there are more likely to be brown or black and to have a set of values that terrifies white society," she said.

Her interviews with American teenagers since 2006 showed that online migration mimicked the patterns of class groups' movements across cities.

[Rocko]

Hahaha, the niggas ran all the stupid little white kids out of Myspace.

[DJ Meaty Cheeks]

Who cares? They both SUCK DICK!

[Daily]

Myspace blows.

[Valheru]

Interesting phenomenon. I never figured it would happen in a cybercommunity the way it does in the real world.

[AdMech]

Yeah, black people ruin everything, we've known this.

[Valheru]

It raises interesting questions as to how social interaction and group mentality extends into all aspects of our daily lives.

Is racism a natural biological imperative? I think that's the case, regardless of how uncultured the idea is these days.

[Young Meth]

So? reggae ran Deeee-boy away from sellin Xan.

[Azure]

Anyone who uses myspace is a faggot anyway.

[Irukanji]

Originally Posted by Twisted_Ferret

Yeah, black people ruin everything, we've known this.

This.

Meh, who wants to use myspace, considering it is ran by nazi's and lags?

[Mantikore]

Originally Posted by Alpheus

Who cares? They both SUCK DICK!

amen