December 2, 2008

While shared by some, this perspective is cynical. As 1/2 of MySpace users are young adults, I wouldn't be surprised to find its attraction was lost on a man of Mr. Wolf's years. What is surprising is that an accomplished novelist would disparage millions of users. I suspect the sentence before the quote was critical to its context.

Actually, I agree. I have been researching various social websites for my job, and I find MySpace to be pretty horrible. MySpace is, in my opinion, the cyber version of "the bad section of town." Questionable people, trashy photos, too much "noise" overall. A much more pleasant, social, productive choice: FaceBook. Hands down.

Two years after everybody, Michael Wolf is getting that the social class division also exist online...

Why quoting this? Seriously...
Poor quote from a really poor minded guy.

Being a man "of ethnicity", I took an offense to a comment and observation recently made by an ex-girlfriend, that may or not hold some truth, stating, "...Myspace is for poor, black, Hispanic uneducated kids and Facebook is for white college kids."

At the time I was taken aback but the truth was I was growing tired of MySpace. It seemed like most of my "friends" were complete strangers and by the looks of their profiles they were aspiring porn stars and not to mention, the blaring music was killing me-an obvious bust at work, announcing that now work was being accomplished in my cubicle.

On a positive note, MySpace is EXCELLENT for musicians. There is not a more effective and cheaper virtual "stage", barring YouTube, to get huge exposure. Some bands wouldn't exist or be as successful if it wasn't for MySpace.

But for the most part I hate generalizations, and Michael Wolfe's inductive reasoning is the type of thinking that spreads dogmatic, narrow mindlessness and if I get a friend request from Michael Wolff I will, politely, deny it.