danah boyd is a Ph.D. candidate at U.C. Berkeley and has written dozens of papers about online culture. Her blog, zephoria.org is always interesting and her latest paper is about the class division between members of Myspace and Facebook.

The goodie two shoes, jocks, athletes, or other “good” kids are now going to Facebook. These kids tend to come from families who emphasize education and going to college. They are part of what we’d call hegemonic society. They are primarily white, but not exclusively. They are in honors classes, looking forward to the prom, and live in a world dictated by after school activities.