My Highly Anticipated Response to Danah Boyd

Danah's use of terms such as "art-fag" and "emo" rang true with me (although she should probably add "scenester" to her vocabulary). Combined with her reluctance to accept mean family income as a metric to stratify class, I was able to personally identify with her opinion.  

 http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ClassDivisions.html

"Social networks are strongly connected to geography, race, and religion; these are also huge factors in lifestyle divisions and thus "class."" - An excerpt from the above linked article.

In her article, she reviews the user groups of the "social network systems" (SNS) behemoths Facebook and MySpace. She breaks it down as such: Facebook is for those shining stars of young society: white kids bound for college and beyond. MySpace is for the deviants that used to lurk in the highschool band hallway and behind the school cafeteria, lighting up a smoke before gym class. 

While her argument may be semi- true, I feel she is missing a huge and valuable point. This may even be in support of her belief, that MySpace is for the subversive, undereducated. My point is this: MySpace is for the person who has absolutely no concept of weblayout, i.e. an imbecile.