MySpace and Second Life: even the experts are confused

From the WSJ:

From calculators to computers, the march of new technologies has always left prior generations feeling like cavemen. But today’s constant turnover has even tech luminaries worried that they are missing the point of MySpace or scratching their heads over Second Life.

Hey, I’m 22 and I don’t get MySpace — at least not in the sense that I welcome it into my life. I think the mass media’s conventional frame for stories on popular tech (”Look what these kids’re up to today!”) glosses over their subject’s finer points. MySpace isn’t meant for what the article terms “dinosaur digerati.” MySpace is fundamentally tied to a certain demographic base — not by design, but by a sort of mutual, self-reinforcing symbiosis that’s lasted from the site’s founding and its users’ young adulthood. Understanding why that’s so would take more space than the Journal is willing to give.