Social Networking…Age/Class/Group Division?

  

 

Age Division?

  After using Facebook, Twitter and MySpace, I have come to the conclusion that they are age divided. MySpace is more for the young teen to late teens, Facebook for late teens to late 20′s, whilst the older generation of people mid 20′s and over use Twitter.

  I’m not saying that young teens don’t use Twitter or people over 25 don’t use MySpace, I just think that certain social networking sites are aimed towards a certain age group. I’m speaking from personal experience I used MySpace from when it first came around until about last year and now I use Facebook allot instead, as a person in my late teens my mates tend to follow the same trend as well from MySpace to Facebook. But now Twitter has been all hyped up and is the new ‘it thing’ in the social networking world, as of celebrities like Stephen Fry and Ashton Kutcher using it. But my friends haven’t started using it yet but I made an account to see what its like and I’m not hooked with it, as it seems bland and not as good as hyped out to be. I’m not slating it, just giving my opinion in this blog of which I give you my opinion which is what blogs are about?…Erm yeah. But maybe if more people from my generation or more of my mates used Twitter I would most likely be using it now.

  To me MySpace is now used as a platform for bands being noticed and is trying to mirror other social networking sites such as Facebook in terms of the IM app and the ability to comment on peoples status’s now. Facebook is sort of trying to mirror Twitter in a way with statuses and blandness but still keeping it original. I used to think MySpace was for Emo, Chav’s and the lower working classes, and Facebook for Indie kids and upper working/middle classes but they are a vary of both on each one. But one thing I don’t know is that if there is an ethnic division in social networking, is there one?