Musical Choices of Morons

In the ongoing aftermath of Danah Boyd's paper about MySpace and Facebook users, Mashable looks at some interesting data from the two. They've taken the top music picks from the two sites and compared them. In a disclaimer, they say that they only have access to the Maryland stats on Facebook, not the entire site. Their intent was to be fairly unbiased, and just to report what they found. I don't find their results too surprising. The music preferences on Facebook are what might be considered "classier," in that there aren't rappers in there with songs about shooting people and humping like rabbits. That might not be the best term, but you get what I mean. Taken in a purely stereotypical view, the contrasting musical choices play along quite well with her paper, and with my opinion of MySpace users.