Facebook , MySpace, and Class Divisions

Danah Boyd's article, "Viewing American Class Divisions Through Facebook and MySpace" brings up observations I may have made around the time the article was published (2007). I wonder how the class divisions have played out over the past several years, where Facebook has broadened it's reach to a wider age range and demographic. I question Boyd's comments about the migration to Facebook by "hegemonic" teens while the "subalterns" prefer MySpace, creating a good / bad dichotomy. MySpace, as Boyd mentions is the Las Vegas style networking site, but I think it is/was actually preferred by the "subaltern" teens because it allows more creativity and personalization than Facebook ever has. Most of the people I knew that used MySpace liked it because they could personalize the site with their own artwork or their band's logo. I believe that because Facebook started out as an exclusively college site, that is what set the tone for class division and I think Boyd should have explored that fact more. People who did not have an .edu email at Facebook's introduction, those who did not attend a college or university, were immediately excluded and turned-off by the site. Eventually as Facebook became more accessible, people warmed, and I think a similar examination of the class divisions on social networking sites would produce different results today. According to OCLC's Perceptions of Libraries, 2010   MySpace has nearly flat-lined over the past several years, where Facebook took a sharp turn upward in 2008.