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- LANjackal, on 03/08/2008, -9/+113Twitter and Facebook are 2 vastly different services. Twitter serves mainly as a medium for status updates. Facebook is a complete social solution. This article is *****.
- ecape7, on 03/08/2008, -1/+96Too many people have turned facebook into myspace going on their profile is painfull
- Aleman360, on 03/08/2008, -4/+81Facebook was infinitely better when it was only college kids and didn't have apps. Now it's MySpace.
- diggface5000, on 03/08/2008, -6/+54I just got my first comment spam on facebook yesterday officially making it as lame as myspace.
- troydoogle7, on 03/08/2008, -9/+51 This article is the new Lame
- hollywoodphony, on 03/08/2008, -8/+46Maybe I'm getting old, but I don't really get Facebook. I mostly use it to play Scrabble--errr, "Scrabulous."
- Rapter09, on 03/08/2008, -2/+38User apps killed Facebook. Though, I still use it, its just become a different version of what everybody hated the most about MySpace.
- Jones82, on 03/08/2008, -2/+29Masturbating again
WoW
Masturbating again - thebuggalo, on 03/08/2008, -1/+27you know, a lot of people are complaining about Facebook right now, but I don't see Twitter ever becoming more popular. They are just going with the trends, which is why they are with Facebook in the first place. It's cool to hate Myspace, so instead, they sign up for Facebook, and right when it becomes popular they decide they hate it.
These comments remind me of the douches bags who say, "Oh, I don't even watch TV anymore, it's all pointless. I only watch LOST, and BSG, and Heroes, and sometimes The Office, and 24... oh yeah, and Mythbusters." It's stupid. Stop thinking that hating something that is popular will make you stand out. Admit it, you all use Facebook and no one is going anywhere. You know why? Because all of your friends are on Facebook. And no amount of complaining will get 'Sarah' with 542 friends and over 300 pictures of herself in a bikini to switch to Twitter. The Non-Digg crowd doesn't see a point to Twitter. All of their friends are on Facebook, it lets them do exactly what they want, and they like it.
If you don't like Facebook, delete your account. Oh yeah, you don't want to do that because you still use it. so until you delete your account stop complaining, and stop comparing it to Myspace like that is sooooo terrible. It's social networking sites! And you guys are acting like children fighting over whose Dad's could win in a fight. It doesn't matter! Use what you prefer and shut your mouth about which one is better. There is no 'better'. It's all based on your opinion! - ligyron, on 03/08/2008, -0/+22Twitter is great, if I want everyone to know exactly what I'm doing at any given moment
Just masturbated
Taking shower, back in 10 minutes
Getting dressed
Getting some breakfast, back in 2 minutes
Eating, please stand by - kidjay, on 03/08/2008, -1/+22oranges to microwaves.
- satanikus, on 03/08/2008, -1/+21The internet, where "popular" = "lame". MySpace, Facebook, what's next...Digg?
- duke1981, on 03/08/2008, -5/+24I use the phone to stay in contact with people.
- ToastPop, on 04/17/2009, -1/+20wah wah Facebook was cool when I felt special because it targeted my demographic only, now everyone can enjoy it and I'm not cool anymore
- tekhna, on 03/08/2008, -1/+18I am not so narcissistic to to think anyone gives a ***** enough to check status updates by me, so twitter just seems pointless to me.
- strictnein, on 03/08/2008, -0/+17I think some apps add value, but most are garbage.
- honkaform, on 03/08/2008, -2/+17I'd probably have deleted my facebook by now if it wasn't so darn hard.
- diggpandit, on 03/08/2008, -4/+18Don't worry, you are making maximum out of facebook!
- rach, on 03/08/2008, -4/+18Solution? I didn't realize there was a problem.
- rand0mm0nkey, on 03/08/2008, -1/+12Yay. Go outside. There are people there.
- thebuggalo, on 03/08/2008, -0/+11Ok, you aren't a hypocrite, you are just a smug, arrogant douche bag. TV isn't evil, it's entertainment. Something I'm guessing you don't quite grasp the concept of. It's ok to let your hair down and enjoy watching some pointless television. The same goes for Social Network, it's all for fun. Why get so upset with Facebook or Myspace if you don't even use it? Is it because you think you are better than the people who use Facebook/Myspace and watch tv? I'll admit, there are a lot of stupid shows on tv, and there are a lot of stupid people on Facebook/Myspace. But there are a lot of quality shows that tell great stories and are extremely entertaining. And there are a lot of good friends who you want to keep in contact with but might not have time to catch up over the phone.
I feel sorry for people like you. You are so against the 'mainstream' that you can't even enjoy yourself anymore. - turpenine, on 03/08/2008, -0/+11you need better friends.
- furcht, on 03/08/2008, -5/+15Yep... too old.
- Ellipsys, on 03/08/2008, -6/+16Maybe I'm too old, but all of this web 2.0 social networking just feels wrong to me. Its one thing to have sites like digg, /. , and others which are anonymous, but why would you want to put all of your real life up on the web for all to see? Did anyone get "into" the internet for precisely the opposite reason - it was the one place where your physical identity could be obscured and reformed into any number of handles and pseudonyms. We've gone from "We are without race, gender, and creed" to putting up "thug lyfe" pictures and groups on our myspaces. Now with Twitter people can know oh such important things about your daily life such as "I'm now at the grocery store. Oranges are expensive" and "I'm back from the grocery store. Having chicken tonight" at a moment's notice? What compels people to post this sort of thing? Are they just attention seekers? Is that why they have 1,000 myspace or facebook friends? Tons of "us geeks" spent years making the internet a safe place for you to anonymously watch your pornography and have arguments over who was a better Star Trek captain without fear of reprisal [sic]. Now most people are choosing to put themselves, their real life selves, out for viewing before the world?
I think we've lost our way. - Jones82, on 03/08/2008, -0/+9You're complaining about facebook app spam and you use the funwall?
- iNunchuk, on 03/08/2008, -3/+12Yea right buddy:
If you'd like to digg his message , press 1
If you'd like to bury his message, press 2
Press 0 to report this story to a digg representative if he's being inappropriate. - wphj, on 03/08/2008, -0/+9Everyone at my high school has a facebook and uses it pretty regularly. It's not really used to meet new people over the internet, but to stay in contact with real-life people. It'll take a long time for everyone to switch to something else, mostly because a social network is useless without having your friends on it too.
I guarantee that I'm one of about a dozen people at my school who even know what Twitter is, let alone have an account that they update.
Also, they're very different services. Facebook has pretty much everything Twitter has, and much more. - Omis, on 03/08/2008, -0/+9Please forward this message to all your friends to get level 2 value.
- wphj, on 03/08/2008, -0/+9I'm not facebook friends with a single person who I haven't met in real life. And I think most facebook users are like me in that respect.
- lordtyros, on 03/08/2008, -1/+9Alex, what is "People with Friends?"
- peestandingup, on 03/08/2008, -0/+8YouTube. The user base is already VERY annoying & VERY dumb.
- AsSubtleAsABrik, on 03/08/2008, -0/+8Why would you be friends with people who spam your wall?
- iofthestorm, on 03/08/2008, -0/+7You know you can delete posts on your wall, right?
- ligyron, on 03/08/2008, -0/+7That reminds me of a Youtube account of a 15 year old girl I was looking at recently, who said she has a boyfriend (that she met over youtube, but never met in person), and that she loves him but thinks he could be cheating on her and said "online relationships are tough"....
The kids that are growing up with youtube/facebook/myspace being a regular part of life, their brains just work different than our generation. I'm only 22, but teenagers these days go about life completely different than when I was a teenager - DCstewieG, on 03/08/2008, -0/+7Funwall is an app right? Um...get rid of it?
- lordtyros, on 03/08/2008, -1/+8Pownce is the new Bit-O-Honey: Completely irrelevant and unwanted.
- AuTigerfan, on 03/08/2008, -0/+6http://www.google.com/trends?q=facebook%2C+twitter
- ToastPop, on 04/17/2009, -1/+7It's already happened... "Wow, Digg is really disappointing lately!" "How did this make it to the front page? Digg has gone down the *****."
I think it's just certain types of people that do this and feel cooler when they have something nobody else really knows about. People do it with bands too, if a band becomes popular, the band is uncool or has "sold out". Social networks like Facebook really become much more powerful when they are popular though, who wants a social network that nobody goes to? That's the silliest aspect of the complaining. - DarkSkies, on 03/08/2008, -0/+6I just joined Facebook. I found an old friend. Twitter is fun, but it is different than FB in it's function.
- SilenceIsFoo, on 03/08/2008, -0/+5I have always been the first adopter of new computer/internet stuff among people I know, but in the case of Facebook, I was one of the last to step on the boat, and only at the behest of a persistent friend.
I think the 'cool factor' of the whole social networking idea mostly missed my generation (Gen X) due to privacy issues as well as a different set of priorities. Very few people I meet these days who are my age have accounts on Facebook or anywhere else.
Instant messaging on AIM and IRC was the big thing when I first started college, and I remember trying to keep up with multiple conversations on my screen all at the same time. But as we got older and priorities changed, that wore off, and the telephone became the preferred method of communication.
Facebook, and whatever shiny new thing replaces it will also fade. I think it's an age/priorities thing more than anything else.. - vibrokatana, on 03/08/2008, -0/+5It doesn't actually remove you from the system, just your login...
- MattBD, on 03/08/2008, -1/+6They definitely need to do something about the wall posts - the number of times people have sent me things like "If you don't send this on you're evil, forward this and this little girl gets 3p towards a new nose to replace the one she lost to a particularly vicious gerbil" is staggering. It's bad enough you get spam in your inbox telling you you've won a lottery you haven't entered without your friends sending you this sort of *****.
- gr4yscale, on 03/08/2008, -0/+5People still have a ***** ton of ***** on their profiles nowadays.
- inactive, on 03/08/2008, -2/+7I knew Facebook was lame long before yesterday.
- BevansDesign, on 03/08/2008, -0/+5Facebook IS working on curbing the App spam. Check this out: http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=10199482130
Some good solutions there, but they still need to add "block all app invites" and give you one-click blocking.
Also, NOTHING can be as bad as MySpace. At least Facebook doesn't allow you to insert your own styles and code. Oh, the horrors. - ecidnac, on 03/08/2008, -0/+4And at the same time, MySpace is trying to become more like Facebook...
- vibrokatana, on 03/08/2008, -2/+61
- inactive, on 03/08/2008, -2/+6I have started this week using Facebook and also Twitter.
Filling my facebook with content, this took a while, also use Twittesync on Facebook, ...
Twitter is much easier and more userfriendly, logging in searching for friend and start blogging.
So far, for this short time I cannot say so much about Facebook and Twitter therefore I thought this article must be interesting for me and others! - Ellipsys, on 03/08/2008, -0/+4I'm 24, and I agree. I'm not sure its a change for the better. Perhaps our "web generation", especially those of us who started young on BBS and the like, doesn't take things like privacy for granted because we remember times when the web opened a whole bunch of new possibilities to us that "have always been" for them. Then again, the Myspace generation is all ready beginning to see why us "old folks" don't follow their ways at times - people are just beginning to figure out that if you post your real name and pictures of you smoking a bong or having sex with someone, your employer just might see it. Though, pragmatically, let the little idiots keep putting this kind of stuff online. Makes it easier for me to know who not to hire.
- JBmtk, on 03/08/2008, -2/+5lets face it, you use facebook to lookup hot girls...don't lie...its human.
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