Social Media War

                              This article by Danah Boyd titled “Social Network Site Taste Test: Myspace or Facebook?” states something thought provoking points, but overall Boyd states the obvious and repeats herself over and over again.  I liked the part of the article where Boyd points out that two Egyptians from the same school used different social Medias based on what their friends used.  While peer pressure may not necessarily exist, it is clear that peer influences definitely do.  I feel Boyd did a bad job reaching her conclusion.  She may have a valid point in that different ethnicities prefer different social classes, but her arguing points in the middle were weak.  She focused entirely too long on the content of Myspace and Facebook which has nothing to do with how different ethnicities view the social Medias.  I also thought the conclusion did not really go with the rest of the essay.  I thought that the conclusion was kind of forced on the reader and was not really mentioned throughout the rest of the article.  I have never used a Myspace, but I do not think it was because of my ethnicity.  I was younger when Myspace was popular, but I had friends that were my ethnicity that were involved with Myspace.  I think this article is poorly constructed and her argument does not help her thesis.