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- Miketwo345, on 06/13/2009, -5/+181They do because they spread out too much. Facebook was quality back in the day when it was just your college buddies, but then, in pursuit of money, they opened it up to everyone. That lets my bosses try to friend me, and that's weird. It makes me want to quit.
So fine, that's handled with privacy controls. Next Facebook decides to add applications, so I'm flooded with Zombie Army requests and other ***** that I never wanted. Not everything my friends do with their boredom-time is cool, especially now that my friends include more than my college buddies. It's annoying, it's the reason I never bothered with MySpace in the beginning, and it makes me want to quit.
So fine, after blocking the the worst offenders and waiting for the novelty to wear off, that has settled down. Then Facebook decides to become extremely insecure in the face of Twitter, so they morph their status to become more Twitter-like. Now I'm inundated again with my friends who have linked their Tweets and Status Updates, so that my news feed is flooded with stuff like "Just ate a burger. Yum." Who gives a *****! People used to use the status for more important things, and I thought it was kind of cool that you wrote it in the third person: "Michael is currently ranting about how much Facebook has been ruined, and it makes him want to quit"
So fine, after a little tuning it has settled down. Now Facebook introduces screennames, to get at the tween crowd I presume. (What was wrong with searching for someone by name or email?) This leads to ***** like this: http://www.facebook.com/ilovecock
They are one their way down. And sadly, I'm not sure I'd really miss it. - yocouchdigga, on 06/14/2009, -14/+114I'm so god damn sick of hearing about twitter, the ***** thing sucks.
- tabion, on 06/14/2009, -3/+82People still use MySpace??
- theshizzler, on 06/14/2009, -0/+71or maybe he really really loves the *****
- AmyVernon, on 06/14/2009, -1/+51Isaac is REALLY gonna regret grabbing that screen name when he gets a little older.
- Rufunki, on 06/14/2009, -2/+52Myspace is dying because the webpages are ugly, and slow to load. Facebook is different than myspace because it is not a personalized page, but a place to interact with friends, if facebook allowed one to start customizing there page then who knows. Yeah the apps are annoying, but they still are not as annoying as loading a page with 20 videos, 4 songs and some of the ugliest graphics known to man, I think I had a screen actually leak out the lcd in it after displaying one of the pages off of my space.
Twitter is completely different than either of those, and it is mostly just seeing what people are doing, and letting them know what you are doing, it is more for the texting generation of people that like to know what there friends are doing every moment of everyday.... - roxgod666, on 06/14/2009, -8/+52Twitter will certainly die, but Facebook seems like something that is here to stay. It replaces AIM and email for a lot of people. And why is Twitter constantly being compared to Facebook or that Facebook has something to worry about? Twitter isn't even a dent on Facebook.
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/twitter.com+faceb ... - sjbdallas, on 06/14/2009, -0/+31We've seen this same pattern occur so many times it's not even a surprise anymore. Where's AOL? Yahoo? These companies start small, explode, start expanding to ridiculous sizes, gobble up smaller companies left and right, then die a slow death.
People seem to be attracted to small startups they can tell their friends about but as soon as everyone gets on board, they move on to the next small startup. What makes it worse is the media frenzy that accompanies the whole thing. MySpace caught the media by surprise so they jumped on the Facebook bandwagon as soon as they could (a little late probably), now they are pimping twitter like crazy. - suckaPU, on 06/14/2009, -0/+25when my step grandma tried to add me as a friend i realized that its going to decline soon
- inactive, on 06/14/2009, -0/+25In other words, once you lose sight of what makes you great, you start to suck. So go people; so go social networking sites.
- franklymister, on 06/14/2009, -1/+26And lo, the people found the internet to be too complicated, and thus was AOL born.
There was much rejoicing, and forwarding of jokes, and playing of Scrabble online.
Yet all was not well, and the lure of the internet without monthly fees was strong, and AOL begat Friendster, its spiritual if not direct descendant.
And it came to pass in time, that Friendster did piss off its user base with deleting of "fakesters," and too much control, and thus Friendster begat MySpace, where there were no rules.
There was much rejoicing, and animating of backgrounds, and embedding of videos, and green-on-black page designs.
And so did MySpace beget Facebook, where pages could be viewed without inducing vertigo, and there was much rejoicing, and forwarding of jokes, and playing of Scrabble online.
Then did Facebook beget Twitter, and Twitter begat FriendFeed, and lo, the generations continued to pass... - inactive, on 06/14/2009, -0/+24Of course. Any application/brand marketed to teenagers (and like minded 'adults') is destined to be discarded as old and lame within a couple years. That's what teenagers do.
- fuzybuny, on 06/14/2009, -1/+24Facebook does not listen to its users. People said they do not want it open they opened it up for everyone, users begged not to change the layout facebook ***** it up as much as possible. It seems like Facebooks answer to declining use is to pile more crap on and make the site as ***** looking and confusing as possible on top of ignoring what users want.
Myspace would have made an excellent music social community. Instead it became the geocities and angel fire of this decade.
Twitter was ***** from the get go. The only way the site is usable is by using apps. It's a great way to supplement a blog or if you want to feel like Miley Cyrus is your BFF. Other then that it's not as revolutionary social network as others claim. TWITTER TRACKER! - KenSPT, on 06/14/2009, -3/+25MySpace has become a waste of internet space. I can't remember the last time I did any interaction with any of my friends via my MySpace page. All MySpace is now is a social outlet for middle aged individuals who are 5 years behind the technological curve, as well as a "promotion tool" for douchebag club promoters.
It needs to die, and soon it will. - inactive, on 06/14/2009, -2/+19let them all die.
- akphidelt, on 06/14/2009, -0/+17Those stupid apps absolutely killed facebook. I do not care what kind of Hills cast member I most resemble. I now use a phone to keep in contact with my close friends.
- btraxx, on 06/14/2009, -3/+20It's good to get information for bands, like tour dates and releases. I would add listening to their music as well, but the myspace music player just keeps getting worse.
- jayhawk, on 06/14/2009, -0/+15hey, that was efficient . . . you still have 70 characters left if you want to rant more.
- franklymister, on 06/14/2009, -1/+16I doubt anyone regrets their Friendster screen name now, just a few years later.
Issac (and the rest of us) probably won't remember Facebook in a few years, either. - Hedison, on 06/14/2009, -0/+14It's the jack of all trades phenomenon again
- enoteware, on 06/14/2009, -1/+14"Now I'm inundated again with my friends who have linked their Tweets and Status Updates, so that my news feed is flooded with stuff like "Just ate a burger. Yum." Who gives a *****!"
Haha, could not agree more! - MrJagil, on 06/14/2009, -0/+10lol, big ups to Isaac.
- jefferson987, on 06/14/2009, -0/+10Completely agree. I was fine with them opening it up to everyone, but once they started to add applications I thought "these people are so dumb, this is why these things tank!"
- AJ338, on 06/14/2009, -0/+9For crying out loud, if you run a popular social networking site and someone offers you a lot of money for it, sell sell sell and get the hell outta there! You know that it's only a matter of time before people ditch your site, no matter how hard you try.
- franklymister, on 06/14/2009, -0/+8You're absolutely right - if there's anything Facebook reminds me of, it's AOL: http://jaysonelliot.squarespace.com/blog/2009/6/12 ...
- UK31337, on 06/14/2009, -1/+9These are just some of the reasons why I closed my account back in March, the others being the mentality of the people using it, the constantly occurring and endlessly detrimental site redesigns and feature changes as well as the data mining and commercialism that went on. I don't miss it one bit and I've seen other people use it since then and it looks like it's gone even further downhill.
I started on it in September 2005 when I went to University for the first time. It was great; just messaging your friends and uploading a few photos now and then plus it was clean, tidy and easy to use. Nowadays it appears to be a messy, cretinous, free-for-all Twitter ripoff. Zuckerberg's word at that company is law, so if he wanted to turn it into online gambling with porn ads then that's what would happen for five minutes until the userbase started on one of their massive rebellions.
It's garbage and I'm sick of hearing about it. I mean, come on, random third-party sites like Digg and some newspaper stories published online now have "Log in with your Facebook account" buttons? No way, it's getting too pervasive now and it has to stop somewhere. I just about hurled when I saw the E3 announcement that Facebook and Twitter were coming to the 360, as if those two aren't in your face enough as it is. - iDoc21, on 06/14/2009, -0/+8dude, you can create your own filters for your news feed, choosing who you want to show up....it's easy to do. I filter out about 350 of my 400 "friends," so I see what the people I actually care about are doing/talking about. As far as the pics, you can choose which networks can see each album you create.
- conostrov, on 06/14/2009, -2/+9I think Facebook has a solid chance but probably won't take it. Like so many before them the ideas of growing without overcomplicating shall be forgotten in committee.
Where are the important new features like...
1. An easy way to prioritize[organize] friends - we're interested to know specific stuff about different types of contacts. I care about my friends status not my acquaintances with too much time. Why treat their information the same?
2. Ability to add different profiles [layout, information, pictures] for different networks [as defined by me] - there are things I would like to share with just friends, just family, just coworkers...and a limited profile is not at all the same thing.
3. Marked Requests - without spamming everyone, if I am looking for a job, used car, or to have a get together why do i have to work around the problem, why can't I just shout it out to the world, network, family, work group? ...and of course, for the ability to mute those who don't understand moderation.
Ect. - franklymister, on 06/14/2009, -0/+7No one has ever heard of that. Put your spam away.
- Cowboy1015, on 06/14/2009, -3/+9MySpace is a freakin ugly social networking website. I signed up and only used for few days. On the other hand, Facebook is clean. It connected me to current and old friends. It keeps me coming back. Twitter is retarded and will be dead by 2010.
- okayokayokay, on 06/14/2009, -3/+9When Facebook dies, the killer won't be a better social network. It'll be a new paradigm (gag) that makes the idea of social networking itself obsolete... Can I get a GOOGLE WAVE?
- rotundo, on 06/14/2009, -0/+6nail, meet head. well said.
- orthodoxDrew, on 06/14/2009, -0/+6you are awesome
- xero69, on 06/14/2009, -0/+6I can see Twitter being appealing to the text message generation and I like some of the apps built to use it. MySpace was always having technical difficulties when I was actually a member. When Facebook came along it dawned on me that giving all kinds of personal information online for all to see _might_ have consequences someday.
- durruticolumn, on 09/18/2009, -1/+7
We need a distributed social networking protocol. There's no technical reason users on Facebook shouldn't be able to email, friend, etc. users on MySpace. - Boblamov, on 06/14/2009, -1/+6What I wanna know is who is in charge of design and usability? I've seen 3 incarnations of facebook, first one sucked, second one was good and improved usability while still allowing previous uses, i.e. having a tab solely for people to put all those apps on. And the third completely redesigned the page, while disposing of any of the previous good aspects of the designs.
After several months of blocking every quiz that comes up, people still find a new quiz to do, and the "highlights" section shows a veritable carousel of the same thing for days. Previous facebook versions allowed blocking of certain things, and the highlights were constantly updated to show the day's activity.
I thought a redesign was supposed to retain functionable aspects and improve upon the bad ones, not scrap everything, remake the whole page and hope to hell you hit the bullseye, because more often than not, you won't. - Escmymind, on 06/14/2009, -0/+5We'll do it live... -microblog!
- gijoe86, on 06/14/2009, -0/+5No, but there is a fiscal reason.
- inactive, on 06/14/2009, -0/+5Maybe you just don't have any friends.
- ChinezePanda, on 06/14/2009, -0/+4Good riddance.
Facebook was good back in the day. I will celebrate when it also tanks. - BrandonJM, on 06/14/2009, -2/+6Have to disagree on Twitter "dying". The thing with them is that it's designed to be a utility more than a social network. Facebook and Twitter are NOT the same thing (and it's foolish to compare them), you're right, but die? As Jim Ross would say, that's "highly unlikely".
Facebook seeing a dip in users / traffic and declining? You're already seeing it. The most we've talked Facebook has been this week with the vanity URLs. - socomoddjob, on 06/14/2009, -0/+4my aunt tried friending me on facebook, i denied it. then proceeded to make my profile unsearchable.
- ogletree, on 06/14/2009, -1/+5I don't think people understand what is going on at facebook. Facebook has been taken over by the 30-50 crowd. Check out Google trends. http://www.google.com/trends?q=facebook. I dare you to find any word that beats facebook other than the words "the" or "of". The only way facebook can fall apart is if they don't fight spam hard. MySpace is not dead a lot of people still use it. It has lost a little interest but not that much. The only reason they are laying people off is they hired too many to begin with. Do you think KFC would have a front page ad right now if they thought it was dead.
- mantis108, on 06/14/2009, -1/+5Or maybe it's just because MySpace is a piece of sh^t and the other sites aren't.
- inactive, on 06/14/2009, -0/+4lame fads that should go the way of the pet rock
- peestandingup, on 06/14/2009, -0/+3Lets see, they're social networking sites, so yes. Yes they will.
- jwaycuilis, on 06/14/2009, -0/+3That rings true to anything. Artists, musicians, filmmakers, Microsoft, RESIDENT EVIL
- Philbert, on 06/14/2009, -0/+3Thing is that I had graduated from college when FB first came out and therefore couldn't join, so I quickly lost interest. When they opened it to everyone the interest never came back.
- trer, on 06/14/2009, -0/+3You had me until "spands".
- paradigmxx, on 06/14/2009, -4/+7Should have kept Facebook to Colleges only. Now it's a tween and old man's *****.
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