Larvatus Prodeo

One of the sharpest sociological observers of social media on the block, danah boyd, has written a cracker of a post at apophenia pointing out that people actually tend to use Facebook status updates and Twitter for different purposes, and that the social context of each is quite distinct. It’s refreshing to see this kind of analysis, when many so-called ’social media experts’ are just obsessed with whether x is the new y. There’s space for all sorts of things in a healthy digital culture ecology.