Posts about Andrew Sullivan as of October 29, 2009

10/29/2009
The Root’s Dayo Olopade talks to social media researcher Danah Boyd about racial divisions between social networking sites. Apparently MySpace is seen as a “black” site and Facebook is a “white” site, then within any given site people tend to associate with people of their own race. The implication isnt’ so much that one site is better suited to a racial group than another, just that the choices reflect how people socialize in the real world: At the end of the day, their choice ultimately comes down to: Where are my friends?