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Story Archives of 'myspace'
Refusing to Join Facebook
By Virginia Prescott on Monday, October 26, 2009.
While it seems like everyone and your grandma is on Facebook at this point, there are some holdouts. Even people in their 20s and 30s are refusing to join the ranks of the social networking site’s 300 million members. As the Washington Post reports, these so-called Facebook refuseniks cite privacy and data ownership among their concerns, but avoiding Facebook can lead to real social alienation.
We're joined by Washington Post staff writer Ian Shapira, and by Mary Flanagan, the chair of digital humanities at Dartmouth College.
The Washington Post: In a Generation That Friends and Tweets, They Don't
(Photo by Laughing Squid via Flickr/Creative Commons)
The Racial Politics of Web 2.0
By Martha Poole on Wednesday, July 1, 2009.
The recent uprisings in Iran may prove that social media sites have changed the way we communicate for good. But while many laud Facebook and Twitter for giving a voice to citizen journalists around the world, one expert has voiced her reservations.
