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Danah Boyd: Social Fragmentation Is Facebook's Biggest Challenge

Danah Boyd, principal researcher at Microsoft Research, thinks that Facebook’s reign will be short-lived. “The idea of everybody going to one site is just weird,” she tells The Verge. “Fragmentation is a more natural state of being.” More troubling for Facebook is the fact that Boyd has a strong following among marketers, because of her scholarly take on tech-crazed teens and her insistence that young people should be given free rein online.
 

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  1. Douglas Ferguson from College of Charleston, March 17, 2014 at 2:08 p.m.

    You forgot the pretentious spelling of her name. Like e e cummings, you know.

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