A cursory look at danah's latest stuff is really interesting. Thanks danah, for the link and thoughts! Once again though, I'll add that the interviews I'm doing for the project on which I'm currently working, on locality, local identity, indie music scenes, and the internet reinforces that at least for active local music scene participants, and maybe especially musicians, MySpace is absolutely the place to be. Now, this may not hold true for teens and some slightly older, but in my rather eclectic, multi-locality sample it is certainly true. Facebook is secondary for those who are on it. This trend transcends class and genre, and is true to the origins of MySpace (even as MySpace has changed hands -- maybe even if Yahoo! ends up with it?), and likely has to do not just with history but with built-in affordances of MySpace: streaming audio of one's music, gig calendars, that sort of thing. Among my CMC undergrads, those who were interested in big social networks, posting photos (especially, interestingly enough, among those in fraternities and sororities who have a bazillion photos to post) tagging photos, and leaving brief wall messages, being on Facebook was crucial, and they'd left MySpace (and earlier, Xanga) behind. OTOH, I have a student who was in that class who's done a lot of promotion of local alternative rock shows, and she's doing an independent study with me this summer that includes an analysis of several local bands' MySpace pages. Obviously these are just a few examples, but they are indicative of the many, many, many cases I've found across localities. It may well be a changing trend, but it's a FB/MySpace distinction that seems to have more to do with lifestyle, interest, and identity than class. I think Marj said essentially the same thing earlier, and it was echoed by someone else (sorry, I can't remember who!) in observations about artists and a few other groups. It would also be interesting to know who has Facebook pages and also personal webpages elsewhere. Or MySpace pages and personal webpages elsewhere. Or who has one or both of these things and is blogging elsewhere. Or who is doing a lot of IM and/or texting. My sense of my students on Facebook is that they are mostly invested in Facebook. My sense of my students and others on MySpace is that they often have blogs elsewhere, or, especially with those with labels or bands, webpages. I have no quantitative data to back this up, and am a tad bit busy with other things, but it would be interesting to know this, because it would certainly provide more information on why certain people use certain social networking sites. Clearly, class is a factor, and the way that class helps position people in certain ways regarding education and technology and other variables. FWIW... Holly -- Holly Kruse Faculty of Communication The University of Tulsa 600 S. College Ave. Tulsa, OK 74104 918-631-3845 holly-kruse@utulsa.edu or holly.kruse@gmail.com http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~holly-kruse