{"id":5641,"date":"2009-10-22T09:38:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T18:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=5641"},"modified":"2009-10-22T13:17:11","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T22:17:11","slug":"myspace-vs-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=5641","title":{"rendered":"MySpace vs. Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reader Joe sent me a link to a fascinating story on NPR&#8217;s Website &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=113974893\">Facebook skews towards white people; MySpace skews towards non-white people<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I have friends who are white,&#8221; says 19-year-old Diego Luna. &#8220;They are my white people friends and they are mostly on Facebook. That&#8217;s why I use Facebook. My brown people are on MySpace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The class laughs nervously at his description, and then they agree. Benito Rodriguez, 16, adds, &#8220;Not to be racist or anything, but there&#8217;s more white kids on Facebook.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Furthermore, Facebook skews towards more affluent people. MySpace, on the other hand, attracts more artists and lots more musicians.<\/p>\n<p>Anybody want to guess how many Unitarian Universalist churches have MySpace pages?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reader Joe sent me a link to a fascinating story on NPR&#8217;s Website &#8212; Facebook skews towards white people; MySpace skews towards non-white people: &#8220;I have friends who are white,&#8221; says 19-year-old Diego Luna. &#8220;They are my white people friends and they are mostly on Facebook. That&#8217;s why I use Facebook. My brown people are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5641"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5661,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5641\/revisions\/5661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}