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On 4/24/07, Bernie Hogan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I have to concur with Joshua on that one. It is more a matter of saying
> - to know social networking in Toronto is to be plugged in to the facebook
> network, not that Toronto is particularly significant in terms of social
> networking.

Not to drive my point into the ground...but that's not exactly what I said.

Facebook is demonstrably big in Toronto. (Assuming that there aren't
a lot of dead profiles, etc.) But this does not mean that all (or
even most) people who do social networking in Toronto use Facebook.

> Now, that notwithstanding, I'm happy that my city went with the classy
> Facebook over the more tastelessly noisy MySpace.

This may not necessarily be the case, either.

If I remember correctly, I believe that danah boyd and others have
observed that the social networking tools that you use is at least
partially demographically driven (e.g., I think that MySpace tends to
get more of the younger crowd just now).

Casuistically,

Joshua

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