Facebook, MySpace: a race/class divide?

Courtesy CNET Tech blog  Thu, 07/09/2009 - 5:50pm

Danah Boyd, a Harvard fellow, suggests in a speech titled "The Not-So-Hidden Politics of Class Online" that the migration of teens from MySpace to Facebook is not unlike white flight.


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Check out this new networking site

Posted by Visitor on Fri, 07/10/2009 - 11:25am.

India’s first of its kind website, beautifulcircle.com, was launched on June 7th, 2009. It’s a unique social networking site that lets you be around some of the most attractive people. No other social networking site earlier has ever been based upon the criteria of beauty. Through beautifulcircle.com you can befriend good looking and smart people.
Beautifulcircle.com is the first online social hub that allows membership only to beautiful people. True to the truest sense “beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder”, the existing members have the right to either praise the beauty of the prospective member and let him/her be a part of their group or reject him/her. This new and unique site employs the fairest democratic process possible where everyone gets a chance to vote in or out the applying member.
Creator of the BeautifulCircle.com says “We have developed a unique rating system, which allows the existing members to rate new applicants of the opposite sex”. Registration is simple:
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3. Give the existing members 48hrs to decide whether you can be a part of them or not!

Some of the very interesting features are:
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There are various other fascinating features. You can chat live with friends, scribble on their books or send them personal mails.
Join beautifulcircle.com to know it better and experience the fun of social networking all in a new way!!

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