Ethnicity of Online Communities/Networks

Something that I was thinking about during the lecture today wasn't talked about, and that’s Ethnicity. Here's what I see in 3 different online community websites (Myspace, Orkut & Hi5).

I don't believe these online networks are truely worldwide and diverse in cultures & people as they claim/seem to be. I believe ethnicities as they do in the real world, huddle together online also.

Myspace is filled with predominantly White Europeans. Orkut is predominantly filled with Indians, Fijians and Brazilians. Hi5 seems too have the best mix of races, everyone seems to be chillin there ;) Big big generalizations, but still its about right. All my European, Indian, Fijian, Brazilian and Asian friends fall into either Myspace of orkut. Then there’s hi5, which people tend to have along with their Myspace or orkut accounts. So Hi5 seems like the merging of cultures and Myspace and orkut are our ethic hangouts.

This leads onto ethnicities fighting over such websites as to who "owns" it, like racial gang warfare online! It's happening on orkut, Brazilians claim ownership. It goes on....

People still arn't really mixing online