"As with all danah's work, this is provocative, insightful stuff that exposes the deeper lessons lurking beneath the tens of millions of profile pages on social networking sites.
'The goodie two shoes, jocks, athletes, or other "good" kids are now going to Facebook. These kids tend to come from families who emphasize education and going to college. They are part of what we'd call hegemonic society. They are primarily white, but not exclusively. They are in honors classes, looking forward to the prom, and live in a world dictated by after school activities.
MySpace is still home for Latino/Hispanic teens, immigrant teens, "burnouts," "alternative kids," "art fags," punks, emos, goths, gangstas, queer kids, and other kids who didn't play into the dominant high school popularity paradigm. These are kids whose parents didn't go to college, who are expected to get a job when they finish high school. Teens who are really into music or in a band are on MySpace. MySpace has most of the kids who are socially ostracized at school because they are geeks, freaks, or queers.'"
Hey Danah, can you stick some more slang words in there? I don't think it's "provocative" enough yet. I'd like your piece to sound basically like the red-haired secretary in Ferris Bueller's Day Off explaining the appeal of Ferris to the principal.
Also, since when is it that all Latinos, immigrants, "burnouts", "alternative kids", "art fags", punks, emos, goths, gangstas, and queer kids are the children of non-college-attending parents? As a one-time card-carrying art fag/alternative kid whose parents went to college (hell one of them went to law schooL!) I resent that. Also, why does "burnouts" require quotation marks, but goths does not? "Burnouts" was in the popular lexicon while "goths" was still in diapers!
P.S. -- I read more of that woman's article and realized it's just some dumb thing someone threw into the ether without trying very hard. Resentment has been quelled.
