I would certainly agree that any movement from one SNS to another can not simply explained by class / race. In my case this is what makes FB and MS so interesting, I signed up for Facebook a couple or years ago and did not use it much, this all changed at the beginning of this year with more and more ex work colleagues joining FB to provide the "tipping point", the tightly coupled netwroking (mini feeds) really gives me a sense of involvement with my friends, MS simply does not give this. The clutter of MS over the cleanliness of FB and what that means to respective users is a very interesting research question. Given FB's elitist origins, it will be interesting to see how the population stabilises in coming months / years, I personally don't like quantitative research, but I could almost see myself reaching for SPSS (-: On 6/28/07, Jimmy Wales <jwales@wikia.com> wrote:
On Jun 28, 2007, at 12:17 AM, Jason Wilson wrote:
Your point about people not necessarily wanting to flee "people they don't like" may be warranted, but that doesn't necessarily mean that people aren't fleeing *towards* where "people like us" ("linked in", tech-literate, "creative") gather. Saying that MySpace has bad customer service doesn't account for the way in which different groups appear to be gravitating towards one or another of the range of alternatives.
Sure, I agree. I am just cautioning against overinterpreting any move from Myspace to elsewhere as being "white flight".
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