Facebook Assignment

The facebook group Anime Enthusiasts seemed to be a very interesting choice. The main outlay of the site is like most face book groups with the blue and white outline. The place itself has a picture of an anime characters that I am not familiar with. Even though the group is open to everybody, it is not really diverse for the fact t hat there id mostly Caucasians and a few others. It seems that the group doesn’t really update that much since the latest update is January 7 of this year so I would think maybe the group has disbanded or it is just for show. Most of the topics seem to be more of an argument than anything, most of the time not even dealing with the things that are relative to the site. There are not any pictures on the page, and the summary is really short and to the point unlike other summaries that I have read. Most people in the group seem friendly enough; I don’t see any thing wrong with them. It does seem however that this is a type of assimilation that is being used. I understand that the group is for people who like anime, being appears that likes it as well, but they do not talk about anime that much. Its likely that the group was just short lived and they all just went to another group since there are only 3 topics and no pictures. But looking t the group before that there is no diversity in this site, its dominated by Caucasians, if I had to guess I would say that it is because most African Americans hide the fact that they like something such as anime from people in fear of being rejected from their own race, or that was how it was in my home town anyway. Its all about image, you could say that in knowing this they made the group knowing that not many people form other races would join. Know thing the reasons behind why someone would make an anime site are hard to figure out when it comes to race because you really can’t tell the difference between hidden racism, and people just not being interested in it. I have to say that this was a hard website to try to analyze, but I think that is why I chose it, you have to look past what is there and pay attention to the little things on this site to really find out something.