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news.bbc.co.uk — Fed up with receiving friend invites, being "bitten", "poked" & having sheep thrown at you!? Recent reports of social networking's demise in the UK may be slightly premature, but the BBC reports that local niche SN sites like Brownbook and Qype could be the beginning signs of a welcome evolution, giving users what they are really looking for...

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wukillabee, on 03/31/2008, -13/+6i still prefer newsgroups thank you very much..
- halleyscomet, on 03/31/2008, -3/+2Newsgroups and Gopher FTW!
  
  Nah, screw it. BBSes FTW!
  - wellyuk, on 03/31/2008, -2/+2Handwriting letters, reading books and going outside to "socially network" ftw!
bxblox, on 03/31/2008, -10/+3ok...................
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.
- RetroRufio, on 03/31/2008, -1/+1dude, you should check out www.kaneva.com
  Best alternative I've seen.
  - 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.
  - 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?
- 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
- vertexoflife, on 03/31/2008, -2/+4Digg is a social-networking site...
Shadowgamers, on 03/31/2008, -3/+4That 5% means the end of social networking as we know it! (in Britain) I'll just go and unplug my internet and hide in a bunker awaiting the nuclear winter.
dajuggernaut, on 03/31/2008, -0/+16from the caption: "giving users what they are really looking for..." PORN??
- CarStan, on 03/31/2008, -2/+3You should work for an internet company! You have revolutionary ideas.
- TigerFist, on 03/31/2008, -1/+1Well hello somebody!
- wellyuk, on 03/31/2008, -1/+1Whenever I read the strap line of a social networking site, such as Kaneva - "Imagine What You Can Do", or Myspace - "A place for friends" or whatever other annoying strap lines there are, all I can hear is the Mac guy from the Apple adverts saying it and I just want to punch his face in.
- TheUngod, on 03/31/2008, -1/+1It's called xpeeps.
PL3NTY, on 03/31/2008, -7/+1thanks for that...
casual7y, on 03/31/2008, -4/+8isn't that what they said about facebook a year ago?
- 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.
  - bowe, on 03/31/2008, -1/+1but colleges have begun to deploy their own facebook clones which are more useful. The usefulness of facebook in college is pretty much blackboard meets email on steroids. Rather than have personal student data floating around cyberspace, moving to an in-house solution keeps colleges safe.
    - MScrip, on 03/31/2008, -1/+3But students will keep Facebook to stay in touch with friends from another college.
- Timmmm, on 03/31/2008, -2/+1What's better than Facebook?
  
  Facebook 2005. No stupid apps. Everyone could spell. Where's my time machine?
  - 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.
    - 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.
    - Baku, on 04/02/2008, -0/+1There's a great greasemonkey script that gives you a "Block & Ignore All" option... ;)
narcofiche, 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.
- GhostyBoy, on 03/31/2008, -2/+5I can't wait for something to come and replace facebook. Worse than myspace IMHO.
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...
- cheeselord, on 03/31/2008, -3/+4But they're all ***** spam accounts for donkey porn and niggertits!!!
  - Maver1c, on 03/31/2008, -1/+2You know where to find donkey porn? Hook me up bro
- Chris4, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1You've got a good point, but it can get a bit too much.
- 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.
  - wellyuk, on 03/31/2008, -1/+1Never had that one with facebook. Had that a few times with myspace but I don't use myspace anymore as I'm not 15 anymore.
  - h4mx0r, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1Hence I use facebook. I left a myspace standing for a year and got several spambot requests. Facebook and bam. Over a few weeks I'm connected with my current friends, and friends that I never thought I'd ever talk to again back in another state that I moved from.
trer, on 03/31/2008, -14/+9Social networking sites are like reality TV. Designed for consumption by idiots whose self-esteem problems and need for attention issues are on par with their unhealthy obsession with celebrity. More crack for an already drugged society.
- 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?
- thedogfatherx, on 03/31/2008, -9/+1Wrong. Way wrong there. Good try though. You keep it up there little buddy. You'll get it one day! Cheers!
- vertexoflife, on 03/31/2008, -7/+1Digg is a social-networking site. Go dig yourself a hole to die in now.
  - ApokalypseNow, on 03/31/2008, -0/+9I always thought of Digg as a user-submitted news aggregator, not a social networking site.
jjpertusch, on 03/31/2008, -3/+1dont we have this already in sites like citypages? how is this different?
cpugoddess, on 03/31/2008, -7/+6I'm a reporter - I hear there are these things called webpages on the intertubes. I've heard about this one website that is an apple, then someone told me about this other site that is some sort of orange - Let's write a story comparing the two!
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.
- ElWizardo, on 03/31/2008, -1/+4Why do people go out to a cafe, to chat with people online?
  - ApokalypseNow, on 03/31/2008, -0/+5...Change of scenery?
- 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.
  - 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.
rdubya44, on 03/31/2008, -5/+16Cannot play media. Sorry, this media is not available in your territory.
- dcipjr, on 03/31/2008, -0/+3First Rick Roll and now this?
- 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...
- hadamin, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1found this on a BBC help page
  
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/front_page/6470385 ...
  
  Quote
  I'm in the UK but I am being told that content is not available in my territory . . .
  
  We use technology to prevent people from outside the UK from accessing content that we need to limit to the UK for rights reasons.
  
  Unfortunately there is currently a problem with the system which means that some people in the UK are wrongly being identified as being outside it. Our engineers are working to resolve this issue as soon as possible.
  
  In the meantime, you should be able to access our non-rights restricted content.
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.
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.
- 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.
  - bowe, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1These connections just boil down to hyperlinks though. A friends-list is like a blogroll.
- 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.
ralphthemagi, on 03/31/2008, -6/+6I think YouPorn needs to be better developed into a social network. After all, that's what users really want and that's the whole purpose of the internet. We need to stop beating around the bush (lol, bush). YouPorn should be the new MySpace/Facebook.

Jessica Michaels would like to have sex with you. Click here to see a video.
Allow or deny? Allow.
Would you like to set up a time and place? Yes.
Your invitation has been sent!
- 69sofine, on 03/31/2008, -3/+12Dude, you need to get outside more.
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.
- 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?
  - Railz, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1No, its a problem when University kids spam random people with these game requests.
- 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.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
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/
mwrl, on 03/31/2008, -6/+3Myspace = Geocities of the late 1990's. Facebook was and always has been equal to Anglefire (aka the ghetto wannabe site) Something better will come along and replace both the good and the bad. That is how the internet works.
silverweed, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1this article sucks but whatever.

any system is naturally going to equilibrate, all facebook or myspace needs to do is to continue adapting and introduce features that are useful and they can continue to influence the equilibrium and gain more users. they will surely to be made obsolete by somebody, but they just need to compete.
scairborn, on 03/31/2008, -0/+6Facebook, why did you have to do that whole applications crap? Zuckerberg, you *****, you ruined it!
ecshome, on 03/31/2008, -4/+2Digg never stopped growing!! All Hail Kevin Rose!
andrewtc04, on 03/31/2008, -0/+0I think this article talks some sense. socially useful sites like Qype & Yelp are really beginning to take off.
surKaz, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1Overload of Facebook app invitations.. I admit, at one point I had been crowded by them.. but not anymore.. enough of that crap.. Only reviewed apps should be allowed in there now..
Apps that some official Facebook Reviewers along with User votes(maybe no users) determines whether an app is useful/fun or crap..

The blood donor one is a great idea.. Should have more useful apps like that.
LOVEANDEQUALITY, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1myspace and okurt from GOOGLE are good!
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
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...
ucccft, on 03/31/2008, -2/+1BBC? (British Boring Corp.) should be renamed WCEA (We Copy EVERYTHING American.)
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/
khoa1708, on 03/31/2008, -1/+1lets welcome back XANGA
- Maver1c, on 03/31/2008, -1/+1Wooooo Xanga!
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.
mmmiiikkkeee, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1I use to use Facebook, but I only checked it like once a month. It got frustrating people expected me to have been checking/reading Facebook on a simi-daily basis. I liked it when i used it. but after people expected me to see there Facebook invites to things and Facebook messages to stuff, it got annoying. maybe I did not set it up right, but it not very friendly to a people who does not wan to use it much. it almost demands you to use it frequently. at least that is how i felt.
- frankietears, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1Facebook commands YOU!
  Your friends command YOU!
  
  Obey!!
doubleagame, on 04/01/2008, -0/+1CAPTCHA has gotten out of control.
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