My First Blog

To whom it may concern,
My name is Cameron Schwartz and this is my first time blogging. This blog will cover topics that I feel are important pertaining to the media, my journalism class, and other blogs on the internet. As well as this being my first blog, this is also the first time i have read online blogs. Previously i have never been interseted in blogs, and i would say this is because i generally like to formulate my own opinion on topics and when do i search for outside opinions i am more prone to refer to a source that is more concrete than a blog persay. This may be ignorant, (there may be very reliable bloggers on the internet) but because of my lack of interest in blogs, i have never been able to find them. Most of the blogs i have came across in my time are those of celeberites (which i care very little for), or those of common folk, who for some odd reason think there are others interested in what they do on a day to day basis. (whereas i am not). Since enrolling in Journalism 201 at the uo, i have paid far more attention the world of blogging than ever before, and i do stand corrected, there are some very interesting blogs on the internet. I have not diggen very deep into the realm of blogging, but rather just briefly read one that was recommended to us by our teacher. This blog is by Henry Jenkins, an american media scholar and professor at USC. I have found that his blog is very interesting and true to many of my beliefs. In particular, his blog entry titled "Is Facebook a Gated Community?: An Interview With S. Craig Watkins (Part Two)" caught my attention. While reading this entry i was reminded of an instance that was relative with his ideas on, Facebook being associated with a "gated community" vs Myspace being associated with "slums". Before leaving for college, i was conversing with a good friend of mine that now attends the University of California, Santa Barbara. We got to the subject of room mates, and i can specifcally remember her saying that her room mate was so "ghetto" and only had a myspace. She then went on to tell me about how her top friends on her myspace had names such as "cRuNkPlaya, Cop Dat Deuce, MiZZ FABuLUST" and so on. When she brought this up i made no correlation with the idea that, myspace is more "ghetto" i just figured her friends where of a more urban setting. After reading Henry Jenkins' blog, and seeing S. Craig Watkins ideals on the difference between myspace and facebook. I myself can not come to a conclusion on why this social seperation has occured other than... On Facebook, one must be connected to a social network, and most teens join their high school or colleges network. Where as on myspace there are no sub networks. So i think that possible because in the so called "ghetto" (lack of better word) not as many teens attend high school or college, so they choose to join myspace. Does anyone else have any thoughts on this social seperation that is occuring? Until Next time....