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- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -7/+47LOL, does it really matter? -- myspace is a sinking ship.
- mecole21, on 10/10/2007, -3/+29Don't say that about Tom... He's my friend.
- TomRemixed, on 10/10/2007, -5/+23Myspace blows and so do the Facebook apps. Facebook is is just fine without adding apps.
- extratired, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15we all hate it, but it's definitely not dying out just yet.
- K3ITHK, on 10/10/2007, -4/+18Something that made Facebook worse is now going to myspace... Usually it happens the other way around.
- jermscentral, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7The only reason they are growing faster than Facebook is because of all the spam accounts being generated -- if you haven't set your profile privacy settings, look how many friend requests you get from "women" who have "lost a bet" with someone and now they have to post their "nude pictures that Myspace won't let them show."
Creating a profile that just links to an outside porn site should not be considered as part of the "growth", though I'm sure their marketing department sees it differently. - konforce, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Fortunately in Facebook you can easily collapse applications you don't want to ever see again. (Which to me, is almost all of them.) Also, nothing to my knowledge is allowed to auto run or play in Facebook. And finally, the basic styles are constant.
So I think Facebook does a good job in allowing people to crap up their profiles without it having to bother the sane people. - Bomster, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5Damn you Tom.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -4/+6I don't understand the obsession with hating MySpace.
- razmig, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3you have no idea how cool you sound!
- smackjack, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Because on facebook, all flash embeds require a click before they activate
- afreakinninja, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Bitter much?
- SlpingInsomniac, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3than* (used for comparison)
- thebuggalo, on 10/10/2007, -4/+6Applications ruined Facebook for me. Bash MySpace all you want. But aslong as you don't have dumbass for friends, it's actually pretty nice. Not everyone has 4 video clips auto-play along with some song and 100 pictures in slideshow. Yes, there are a lot of pages out there like that. But some people actually use MySpace responsibly. And it's actually pretty fun to be able to customize your page so much. Maybe if you stopped searching 13 year old girls MySpaces and just added your friends you might like it a bit more. I'm sick of hearing people pretending to be all high and mighty because you use Facebook and not MySpace. With that attitude you are being more childish than the so called "noobs" you say are on Myspace. At least they have enough sense to not care what other people think and just be themselves. Quit your glory posts, get some perspective. You are trash talking complete strangers just because they use a different social networking site than you. Grow up.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+5Would you idiots shut up about whether MySpace or Facebook is "better"? That's not what the article is about, yet any story mentioning MySpace/Facbook always deteriorates into an absolutely retarded "My social networking site can beat up your site" shouting fest. NOBODY CARES. Use whatever you want and STFU.
- jordan314, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2won't let me register. Just hangs in two browsers. Maybe the digg effect?
- TheWorm, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Apps ruined Facebook for me. Every time I log in it tells me i have like 35 zombie invites. I really don't care about that stuff! It's just spam i have to delete. All i want to do is check my messages, and see what people are up to. With all those obnoxious apps Facebook profiles are getting messier than myspace ones.
- giveer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Dugg down my Myspace's Tom and various upset teens I suppose. Go wank off to 'a simple plan' or something.
- mikewhite314, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1nope, only you did.
- smithchr, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Why would I want to tell a company everything about myself including my politics (political compass) best friends (top friends app), where I've been (where I've been app) and make it so much easier for corporate America not to mention the NSA to know everything about myself? Use your brains, people. This app is designed to mine data about you for sale to advertising companies and the government.
- chrisxkelley, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1because they're all in america. go capitalism!
- woodcoxcb, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3there ARE a few really really good ones. graffiti is one of them. one of the first, and one of the best, along with last.fm's app. really cool.
- FST330i, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2No it doesn't. You can add people from other networks.
- StickWST, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2As horrible as the site is, it's still usefull, I am getting in contact with friends that moved long ago and meeting new people from school.
- peestandingup, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Shampoo is better; I go on first and clean the hair! Conditioner is better; I leave the hair silky and smooth! Oh, really, fool? Really!
Stop looking at me, swan! - whackaxe, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3by jump you mean drop?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Your face is poorly structured and horribly designed, and looks like crap to boot.
- slugicide, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Made Facebook worse? Last.fm, Scrabulous, Graffiti, paypal, wordpress, freenet connect... If you think the apps make Facebook worse, you probably haven't figured out how to use them (btw: you can tell them to not appear on your profile and still have their functionality).
- t3hfrank, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Why can't apps just be cool little things people make to add to your profiles? Why do so many people try to make a business out of them?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1News Corp, oh noes.
- shawnz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1but is the speed of the amount of speed that myspace is growing faster by decreasing faster than the speed of the amount of speed that facebook?
- riverstyx, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Myspace is and will always be the site that design forgot. I can't wait until it all comes tumbling down.
- ashlvsya, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I hate having to click the "where I've been" picture in order to see the map, why not display the map on the profile?
- BevansDesign, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You need better-educated friends.
- BevansDesign, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Actually, no it isn't. MySpace is definitely ugly. AND poorly designed. AND poorly organized. I could go on.
Facebook is very well organized, is easy on the eyes, clean, and has a consistent color & graphics scheme. AND it has lots of nice Web 2.0 features. The only ugliness comes from Apps. - BevansDesign, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Yea, most of the apps are *****, but for every 100 worthless ones, there's 1 good one.
My favorites:
last.fm Charts (not made by last.fm, but way better than theirs)
Books
My Personality
Movies (made by Flixster)
...and that's about it. - t3hfrank, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0wait a few years until you can form a proper sentence and then voice your opinion.
- HerrEisenheim, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2So what is Facebook for? 1337 h4x?
- blup3ace, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1you're a retard.
- gorndog, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Mapster app from VirtualTourist.com also exports your map to Myspace (as well as to Facebook, of course)
http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/TravelMap/ - redeye666, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1The guys at ok cool just made a really nifty facebook app ( http://apps.facebook.com/musicwall/ ) for people who make music to share full track drm free limited editions of their tunes through friends on facebook and I bet you that none of the artists would mind if it was on myspace or facebook.
- Heembo, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3MySpace is one of the most popular websites in history, you idiot!
- babygodzilla, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1wtf? facebook profiles have always loaded under 5 seconds for me. what kind of friends do you have?
- softfacade, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0MySpace is the most uglies site :( only for fans
- kingkilr, on 10/10/2007, -5/+4Technically they are still growing faster then facebook :( . I wish facebook apps would die as well though, and I say this as an app developer.
- giveer, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1So is your grammar.
- chidori, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0so... How old are you?
- slimbooty, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Myspace missed the boat about 1.5 years ago (probably the peak of it's 'cool' factor). They let their code base creep up and slow down the entire site (and allow noobs to hack the CSS into god-awful pages).
They should have just created a new Beta profile page (faster/less CSS garbage/stricter standards/more features) that existing users would eventually have to swap over to. Instead, they just inserted more and more useless features (digg-like news section) that makes the site unusable. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+014 if you want to know
- giveer, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1While what you're saying does ring true to a degree, you're coming down on people for making a sincere choice.
I don't go to the movie theater close to the high school because it is accessible to, and dominated by, teenagers (no offense to normal teenagers out there, I mean the total ***** ones). For whatever reason, myspace is, like it or not, dominated by a younger demographic. It is poorly designed which is exploited it in many kids making the loudest and ugliest pages you've ever seen in your life. It's rife with spam and false profiles, "real names" are hardly used by anyone and features are difficult to modify or use (the search for example).
Where myspace would say "Well, if you don't like it, "get better friends/switch to private/turn your volume off", Facebook assumes you don't like it in the first place.
Everything is in matching components that don't auto-play, and the users - almost ALL of them use real names, making navigation, searching and identifying your networks that already exist not only easier, but more practical and effective.
The USERS are the main reason Facebook has become as easy to use as it has and why myspace remains so annoying. -
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