Class Divison in online social networks?

I was reading CNN today and came across and interesting story, in regards to social status on Facebook and MySpace.

Here are some excerpts from the article:

“More specifically, almost 23 percent of Facebook users earn more than $100,000 a year, compared to slightly more than 16 percent of MySpace users. On the other end of the spectrum, 37 percent of MySpace members earn less than $50,000 annually, compared with about 28 percent of Facebook users.”

Ok really, why does there have to be a classification on everything? America wonders why we can’t move forward. Maybe because we are too busy looking for ways to separate instead of bond. Of course the point of the article, may not be exactly where I am taking it, but its in there hidden and it has got to stop.

My question is why can’t people just be online without the drama of a class division?

“Even more affluent are users of Twitter, the microblogging site, and LinkedIn, a networking site geared to white-collar professionals. Almost 38 percent of LinkedIn users earn more than $100,000 a year.”

People lie on their income in their profiles, that is a fact.

 ”a young woman, living in a small historical town in Massachusetts said to me, ‘I don’t mean to be a racist or anything, but MySpace is like, ghetto.’”

“It’s not a matter of choice between Facebook and MySpace, it was a movement to Facebook from MySpace,” she said, a movement that largely included the educated and the upper-class.

NEWSFLASH:  If you start a sentence with,  “I don’t mean to be racist” uh yes you do or you wouldn’t have to add the disclaimer!!  I mean who even says that??  Help me understand…who is in the ghetto (MySpace) and who is out of the ghetto(Facebook)? In this movement of upper-class educated people to Facebook , who exactly isn’t in this group that necessitated the “I don’t mean to be racist” disclaimer? What am I missing?

I think that MySpace has its place and so does Facebook, and there are a lot of college kids and high school kids that aren’t making a dime on both sites. But of all the things going on in the world ~ who cares either way?!

  

Article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/10/13/social.networking.class/index.html