How nice to find one’s blogging already done.
The Spouse begins saying what I might’ve gotten around to saying about that inexplicably popular privilege meme; then 
blackbyrd2 steps in and renders whatever I’d’ve added redundant.
God, hes left as on aur oun.
All memes are inexplicably popular. That’s why I avoid them. And those absurd personality tests (ie— “Which Sherwood Schwartz Sitcom Are You ?”) as well.
This one was more interesting to read than they usually are, though. Class in this culture is even more taboo as a subject than sex and I think people jumped at the chance of “permission” to air it in public. Such opportunities don’t come around every day.
I dunno; it’s just a rather random assortment of class pointers that’ve been answered mostly (and I stress: mostly) in an air of weirdly sheepish self-congratulation. —Certainly, the folks who have added context to what they’ve bolded and why have made it more interesting (and pointed out the glaring weaknesses in generalizing from those pointers), but that’s the only value I’m seeing in this exercise: the discussions spawned, which, so far as I’ve seen, are few and far between. (Perhaps one might point to Sturgeon’s Law: 90% of all meme responses are crap.)
Still: the basic point of the meme qua meme as found on teh internets could as easily have been made with one simple question:
Without online self-congratulation, what would we have to buffer all those ads for “duck-shooting” and various diet plans ? You agin’ progress or somethin’, Boy ?
I find it interesting in part because I didn’t actually know the class background of everyone on my friends list who has posted. Also because it has sparked at least a few more detailed comments about class on my friends list, which is more than there would have been without the meme.
I also think your alternate summation is inaccurate. There are actually class differences between people who are able to blog or LJ, both historical class differences and current class differences.
I think a better class meme could have been made (for one thinkg, this was designed to be used by undergrads, which many of us aren’t anymore), but I think that this class meme was better than the absence of a class meme.