Facebook v. MySpace
Ok, so at the insistence of my sister and some friends I got a Facebook account. I had been resisting because of my feelings about MySpace.
For your consideration here are those feelings:
- It's ghetto as fuck
- Everyone is 18
- Or naked
- Or both
- User customizable CSS templates does not = good
- Usability? What? Huh? OMG THE GOGGLES! THEY DO NOTHING!
- AUTOPLAY MUSIC IS FROM SATAN!
- 100% less ghetto
- Many people are young, but there are tons who are not
- I have not been confronted with anything more than a bathing suit shot (It's not the naked that bothers me per se, its the "of course I just want to be your friend, oh did I mention my porn site?"thing)
- One template. One look. It's pretty. Much AJAX. Yay!
- I can find things. It doesn't burn my eyes. Soothing!
- They might go into music hosting/band pimping. Wanna bet they do it better than Myspace?
Labels: computers, social networking, Technology
posted by Cameron Campbell @ 5/17/2007 02:01:00 p.m.
2 Comments:
Yeah, it's been the facebook ¡el grande explosion! chez moi as well. Like, people I actually know and went to school with, and am actually glad to get in touch with.
casual subjective observation: facebook's demographic skews older and generally waspier / establishment-family-y, unlike friendster which is now a huge hit in the philippines, or similarly orkut becoming totally brazilian. not that there's anything wrong with that, but it's interesting from a sociodemographic perspective.
Featurewise, It seems to have what the old friendster couldn't quite figure out (i.e. layout and tools that people actually use) plus a lot of the nice features of linkedin. it makes sense.
I'm not sure it's waspy in so much as it's self selecting based on education, unless you're saying waspy as short-hand for middle class (or middle class values/presenting).
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