In certain sense, this was baked into fb’s idea. They begun among university students — specifically among Harvard people, and college students at some other extremely selective, elite universities, after which people at all universities, etc. They became out-of a preliminary user base which was mostly affluent and white; gradually they turned from the bourgeoisie and MySpace making use of proletariat. Facebook might or might not are deliberately exploiting these class characteristics, but those characteristics played a very actual character during the site’s development.

If you doubt Hinge may be the online dating software of this blessed, start thinking about so it literally ranked banking institutions by eligibility of their unmarried staff members. (Hinge)

Hinge, similarly, targets an elite demographic. Continue reading →