A cyber-house dividedOnline as much as in the real world, people bunch together in mutually suspicious groups—and in both realms, peacemaking is an uphill struggle IN 2007 Danah Boyd heard a white American teenager describe MySpace, the social network, as “like ghetto or whatever”. At the time, Facebook was stealing members from MySpace, but most people thought it was just a fad: teenagers tired o
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