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- h4mx0r, on 03/31/2008, -4/+40Annoyed by "recieving friends invites"? Why would you even go to a social networking site if you don't want friends invites? That's the whole goddamn point of a social networking site...
- Railz, on 03/31/2008, -3/+20Facebook became ***** with all the add-ons and the opening to higher schoolers to be quite honest. It was fine for keeping in touch - end of story.
- dajuggernaut, on 03/31/2008, -0/+16from the caption: "giving users what they are really looking for..." PORN??
- justananomaly, on 03/31/2008, -4/+19I'm sick of social websites entirely for the most part. Myspace was fine until hijackers and spam took over, and the inevitable CAPCHA Facebook was ok if it was not so hard to find one person without going through 50 screens. The game social sites like cherrywhatever make me just wanna reenable my ogame account because honestly they are a lot more fulfilling Stickam is great, Digg is great, everything else can be done with a personal website or blog within minutes and without having to go through all the hassle and limitations.
- rdubya44, on 03/31/2008, -5/+16Cannot play media. Sorry, this media is not available in your territory.
- DCstewieG, on 03/31/2008, -1/+11It's still fine for keeping in touch. What does it matter that high schoolers - whose profiles you never need to see - have 50 apps on their page?
- 69sofine, on 03/31/2008, -3/+12Dude, you need to get outside more.
- ApokalypseNow, on 03/31/2008, -0/+9I always thought of Digg as a user-submitted news aggregator, not a social networking site.
- DCGUY12, on 03/31/2008, -3/+11Facebook is a virtual Address Book for me. I can Facebook stalk people, see who got drunk with whom, chat shallowly with my ex-girlfriends, give my drinking buddies ***** over something they did and I can pick on my female friends by posting pictures that embarrass them on their pages.
I've used Facebook to keep in touch with College friends and co-workers from other jobs, and discovered people I'd since forgotten 10 years ago out of school. - inactive, on 03/31/2008, -1/+8I think the only thing more annoying than Myspace or Facebook is the fact that every couple years something "better" comes along and everybody switches.
- ApokalypseNow, on 03/31/2008, -1/+7The individual desires judgment - without this desire, the formation of groups and higher orders of structure is impossible. At first, we created the gods to judge us, then we created celebrity (the judgment of others). Next we'll create self-aware systems that judge for us... how does "Helios" sound for a name for such a system?
- jjpertusch, on 03/31/2008, -3/+9i agree, i dont understand all the hate. recently i moved to chicago and when i did I discovered that a good friend of mine from high school whom i hadn't spoken to in a few years had mvoed here a year earlier. i had moved twice before chicago, so i never would have found this out had it not been for facebook.
- scairborn, on 03/31/2008, -0/+6Facebook, why did you have to do that whole applications crap? Zuckerberg, you *****, you ruined it!
- ApokalypseNow, on 03/31/2008, -0/+5...Change of scenery?
- Myonosken, on 03/31/2008, -2/+6Indeed. The fact remains that, whilst it can be highly HIGHLY annoying at times, Facebook does work and is really useful, especially student circles. The fact that the Devs are also adding resolutions to common complaints (extra privacy, app blocking) and doing i in a manner that doesn't make it a bloated POS like Myspace just adds to that.
It does seem like some people hate on Facebook just because some Tech groups see it as 'cool' to do so. - wellyuk, on 03/31/2008, -0/+4You know those stupid apps you're talking about? It's not a requirement that you have to add them. I haven't added any of them and I get on fine with facebook.
- MScrip, on 03/31/2008, -0/+4I agree too. Facebook is my address book and photo sharing site. I used to put photos on Flickr, then I would have to tell my friends to go look at the pics. Facebook notifies your friends of the new pictures automatically. And if you just wanna write a quick message on someone's wall, it's easier than sending an e-mail message that says "hey dude call me." Especially since I hardly have anyone's e-mail address. It's easier to find people on Facebook and "Add" them.
I don't understand the hate either. When I check my e-mail, I get nothing but junk. It's a cold, barren place. But when I log into Facebook, I actually see stuff that's going on with my friends. New friends, new photos, etc.
Let's stop calling it "social networking" and just call it your online community. The Facebook News Feed is like Main Street. - suprxtragrav, on 12/09/2008, -4/+8isn't that what they said about facebook a year ago?
- djobin6, on 03/31/2008, -0/+3No, a lot of people join social networking sites to keep in touch with their "real" friends in one convenient site, not to get friend requests from random strangers and fake spam accounts.
- GhostyBoy, on 03/31/2008, -2/+5I can't wait for something to come and replace facebook. Worse than myspace IMHO.
- inactive, on 03/31/2008, -1/+4Why do people go out to a cafe, to chat with people online?
- bowe, on 03/31/2008, -0/+3Not in my territory? Hmm, I could have sworn I took a piss on the BBC Headquarters while in London...
- ApokalypseNow, on 03/31/2008, -2/+5Or you could just abandon social networking sites for something with a little more content... but maybe I'm just old fashioned. I just don't see most people being interesting enough to warrant their own little corner of the web, no matter how many "friends" they may have.
- skidooer, on 03/31/2008, -0/+3You can use the telephone without a telephone book, but sometimes you want to contact someone who you haven't previously exchanged numbers with. Social networking sites bring that same functionality to email and blogs. That is what is different.
- dcipjr, on 03/31/2008, -0/+3First Rick Roll and now this?
- kleenex1, on 03/31/2008, -0/+2One American site based out of Denver, CO Disaboom, tailors to People with Disabilities, Friends, Families, as well as Caregivers.
http://www.disaboom.com/info/education/ - vertexoflife, on 03/31/2008, -2/+4Digg is a social-networking site...
- jellygraph, on 03/31/2008, -2/+4bla bla bla... I looked at those 2 websites and they look like highly annoying web directories... how does that compare to keeping in touch with your friends?
*slaps forehead*
Social networking in those other contexts are pretty much online forums and not necessarily more useful unless we adopt a more stable platform for the internet for identity, rather than this whole mish mash of websites to login to and sharing your data around with ease.
http://openid.net/ - frankietears, on 03/31/2008, -0/+2The invitations for them are a bit annoying and I think they make people's pages more difficult to look through.
- MScrip, on 03/31/2008, -1/+3But students will keep Facebook to stay in touch with friends from another college.
- wellyuk, on 03/31/2008, -0/+2Not everyone is capable of building a web page, even the most simplistic web page. And not everyone is willing to pay for hosting, or has much knowledge of hosting. And not everyone is interested in doing the above, hence myspace/facebook/bebo etc. etc.
Thanks though. - MScrip, on 03/31/2008, -0/+2I used to get tons of app requests from friends.... but they seem to have slowed down to maybe one a week. I guess people are over the app craze.... realizing that they don't really do anything. All they do is annoy your friends with invites, clutter up your page, and then after you install the app, you never go to your own profile to even use the app or whatever. So why install an app on your profile anyway? I never look at my profile! Man, I'm glad my group of friends don't install apps.
- justananomaly, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1Between mIRC, newsgroups, and SL over the last 10+ years I have a nice small circle of friends that I have had over the years. I only used myspace to find old highschool and college friends anyways. But I'll check out Kaneva after work. Thanks.
- Railz, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1No, its a problem when University kids spam random people with these game requests.
- l800LEMMINGS, on 03/31/2008, -1/+2friendster was the purest form of social networking but lacked technologic advances myspace took its place by copying other web 2.0 companies and ideas purevolume youtube flckr carreerbuilder as well as others
- Ub3rg33k, on 03/31/2008, -2/+3I'm still trying to figure out what you can do on "social networking" sites you can't do with email or starting your own webpage/blog. I have yet to make any new friends on any "social networking" site. Its all just people I already knew IRL.
- frankietears, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1Facebook commands YOU!
Your friends command YOU!
Obey!! - Bonus415, on 03/31/2008, -1/+2Facebook is great! I love the structure and the simplicity. Some advice to those who don't like the apps and spam. If you find an app you don't like, don't use it. If somebody you've got no connection to wants to be your friend, don't accept. If your friend keeps sending you garbage invites, tell them not to. How are these things any different from email spam, bad freeware, and stupid forwards. There's got to be SOME measure of personal responsibility here.
- Xproject01, on 03/31/2008, -1/+2These social networking websites are not going away any time soon. I would expect to see more and more over time because everybody thinks they are going to become the next billionaire, meanwhile all they are doing is copying everything from all of the others and adding different emoticons.
- WorldGroove, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1I think it's about presentation, easy usage and ability to customize your profile/page.
A blog is centered around the person who owns it. Everyone else just comments on it. A place like MySpace is not really focused on any one person.
*It's a collection of a whole bunch of customized profiles(for the most part) that can connect to each other.
*It's easy enough for 16yr-old highschool girls.
*And for presentation, it looks.... err..... awful to most digg users, but to 16-year-old highschool students who never designed a professional webpage before, it looks awesome and that's all that matters. - Baku, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1Personally I like http://www.virb.com - but it does seem to be mainly populated with musicians and designers
- Ender008, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1Edit in the article: "business owners singing there praises" should be "business owners singing their praises."
Come on BBC... - Maver1c, on 03/31/2008, -1/+2You know where to find donkey porn? Hook me up bro
- doubleagame, on 04/01/2008, -0/+1CAPTCHA has gotten out of control.
- bowe, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1These connections just boil down to hyperlinks though. A friends-list is like a blogroll.
- ultrafez, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1It's more of a Second Life kinda thing, definitely more of a game than a social network - you spend more time paying attention to the virtual world than your actual friends, which surely is what social networking's all about?
- Chris4, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1You've got a good point, but it can get a bit too much.
- cheeselord, on 03/31/2008, -3/+4But they're all ***** spam accounts for donkey porn and niggertits!!!
- bowe, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1I think the best form of social networking is for individuals to just build their own webpage and tell their friends about it. You can then use flickr, youtube, twitter, and whatever else you like to piece together you own webpage, without sacrificing privacy. This is almost what myspace has become, but with corporations controlling all of your data, and a very ugly edge. All you really need to do this is a very easy to use CMS with built in solutions and someone to provide free private webspace.
I also think that friendfeed.com is a good idea along these lines, but in this case you get everything a person does, while you'd probably like for them to filter through this information to what they thought was most important. I don't think my friends care about every story that I digg, I wouldn't put that on my webpage, but I might put a link to my profile. - Baku, on 04/02/2008, -0/+1There's a great greasemonkey script that gives you a "Block & Ignore All" option... ;)
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