[Air-l] teens and myspace

[danah boyd]

Oh, don't get me wrong - there's still a lot of stigma against a lot  
of practices and peoples, both online and offline.  Gamers (although  
not all games), goths, geeks, going online to hang out with  
strangers, making up "fake" worlds (from D&D to MOOs to Second Life),  
reading the encyclopedia for fun, ... these are all still lame.  But  
it's not the Internet that's lame... there's just a lot of lame shit  
there and people who do lame shit.  From their point of view, MOOs  
are *nothing* like MySpace.  We can argue otherwise theoretically but  
that's the mainstream teen view.

(Of course, i have a special place in my heart for the goths, geeks,  
queers and freaks... But that doesn't mean they've gotten any "cooler.")

On Mar 1, 2006, at 8:42 AM, Bunz, Ulla wrote:

> Danah says, "They definitely don't have a stigma attached to the
> Internet" and actually, this I find very interesting, because while my
> early 20s students seem to think it's perfectly normal to be on  
> MySpace
> or Facebook, and while they find it normal to have relationships  
> there,
> they think that people who made friends in LambdaMoo must be really
> weird, socially inept weirdos and that online communities are a  
> thing of
> the past (not realizing that they are, indeed, part of one  
> themselves).
> Just a fun-fact.
> Ulla
>
>
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