Blog #27

Reflection on todays class,we started our new essay assisgment today I think this one is a little bit more simple than the other essay we are suppose to start our summary for the essay in this blog. To help us get started on the assignment.



In this article, “does your social class determine your online social network”? A recent Nielsen study finds class differences between online social networks, Breeanna Hare talks about how the different Internet website determines your social class. Hare talks about how MySpace users tend to be in the middle class, blue -collar neighborhood. And FaceBook goes off the charts in the upscale suburbs. Also Hare goes even further and discusses the income bracket of each website, MySpace user’s income range from 50,000 or less and FaceBook users earn 100,000 and more. Wealthier people are more likely to use FaceBook; and the less affluent, are MySpace Users.

Writer Hare research each website and provided the sources such as market research firm Nielsen Claritas, danah boyd, and Editor-in-chief Adam Ostow. The research is a reliable and current source to a certain extend. Recently more MySpace users have been switching to FaceBook. Not because the amount of income a person has, but the level of maturity of a person. The research Hare has is objective, Hare spoke with several sources and each source had their on opinion. The writer Breeanna Hare has well documented facts on MySpace and FaceBook, but Hare is not qualified on the subject. Hare has chosen a popular source; she has a lot of research in her article from several different researchers but has not exactly done studies of here own.