It made danah boyd suggest that the site requires regulatory oversight.

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Ethnographer danah boyd, who does not capitalize her name, said she watched the class divide emerge while conducting research of American teens' use of social networks in 2006.

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"We have never seen a social space that actually works for everybody, " says danah boyd, who studies youth culture, the Internet and social media as a senior researcher at Microsoft Research.

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"Phone calls are not the way young people express themselves, " said Danah Boyd, a senior researcher at Microsoft Research and an assistant professor of media, culture and communication at New York University.

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"Sometimes I feel like my job is Captain Obvious, " says danah boyd, sitting cross-legged and shoeless in a neon-green chair at Microsoft Research's office overlooking a frozen Charles River in Cambridge, Mass.

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