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MySpace v. Facebook: “It’s Not A Decision. It’s an IQ Test”

techcrunch.com — Venture capitalist Josh Kopelman rips into MySpace today as he applauds Facebook’s new developer platform.

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  • msaleem, on 10/11/2007, -167/+16Damn you Andy, you're fast!, Beat me by a few seconds. Rock on.
    • VaporBro, on 10/26/2007, -14/+180That's what she said.
    • understudy, on 10/11/2007, -16/+317

      It is an IQ test, but not for the reasons mentioned in the article.

      Do you prefer—

      A) Clean design
      B) Novice users designing pages that are impossible to navigate while butchering code snippets that lock up your browser and simultaneously supporting Rupert Murdoch who redefined the word 'news' to mean 'propaganda'.

      _

    • drafhk, on 11/14/2007, -9/+201Oh oh I know I know! B! The answer is B!

      George Carlin: "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." Case in point: why Myspace exists.
    • birkoph, on 10/11/2007, -39/+12Digg vs real news: “It’s Not A Decision. It’s an IQ Test”
    • stonewaljacksn, on 10/11/2007, -32/+18if you actually care about the difference between myspace and facebook, i feel bad for you, because your life must suck.
    • CedEx, on 10/11/2007, -22/+0@ understudy

      The answer is... a Duck!
    • abhiroop, on 10/11/2007, -16/+5but doesn't this addition mean that facebook will lose its "clean design"? The reason I never signed on with myspace/orkut/hi5 was because of the cluttered interface. There was too much going on and it was way to slow. Facebook made it much more streamlined which is great! I fear we're about to lose the "default" setting of facebook. Can you imagine if all the pages have different apps? If I want to look at a friends photo album then I just know where it is.

      @stonewaljacksn:
      its ok there are other's out there without any friends, facebook and myspace can be pretty dull if you don't have any wall posts, or friends.
    • morninglorii, on 10/11/2007, -13/+5@abhiroop:

      You can only see applications on someone's page if you yourself are using that application. For example, Facebook pages look no different to me, cuz I haven't added any apps yet.

      Also, from what I've seen on other people's computers, the apps are generally very well designed. I would bet that Facebook has some restrictions that keep the designs in place (that may be 100% wrong too, I haven't read enough about it yet).
    • mojaam, on 10/11/2007, -19/+2I'm mostly anti myspace for all the reasons said here already but it does have it's uses because of the mass amount of users. I learned to pretty much redo a myspace page and make it more unique and less intrusive: http://www.myspace.com/idealmindsentertainment
    • andnever, on 10/11/2007, -12/+1youre are just wrong, sorry
    • Light11, on 11/14/2007, -14/+161~>.:';;;..:_MySpACe iS aWeSoMe*+*+*+*+
    • TheTjalian, on 10/11/2007, -20/+5Haha, what a load of crock this is. Fact of the matter is, MySpace was once a clean design back before it got mainstream and loads of noobs decided to reinvent the 90's by adding pointless animations and hard to read text on harsh backgrounds. The same thing will eventually happen to FaceBook, if Facebook wants to get bigger then MySpace, that is (that's the whole underlying point in Competition, right?)
    • KlayBorg, on 10/11/2007, -4/+32Actually, I based my decision on the amount of my friend on either service. Over here in Australia, facebook is unheard of.
    • davdav, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3@morninglorii... incorrect. you see other apps regardless of whether or not you added them yourself.
    • UnoriginalMind, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7@klayborg (#6908595)
      That's the exact same reason for me. Few people use facebook around here. So I use it instead.
    • iloveroundtable, on 10/11/2007, -3/+19are there still real people on myspace?

      I think that now myspace is just a bunch of ads on a page advertising to people that create profiles in order to advertise their crappy products/services/bands.
    • GirthAgain, on 10/11/2007, -5/+15I never really understood the whole "My space is teh ghey!" cult. If I had mates on facebook I would be on there. They just happen to be on myspace. Big deal. There are bigger problems in this world to worry about than a website.
    • minorproblem, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3@klayborg - About 30 people i know from my local area use facebook, and im just in Sydney though admittedly they are all uni students so maybe thats why.
    • huwy, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1@klayborg
      Man, facebook is getting massive in Australia, I don't use my myspace anymore.
      But it was pretty awesome for finding music.
    • greengiant2684, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10@girthagain has digg taught you nothing? theres never anything bigger to worry about than how a website is designed or what code it uses
    • Saiing, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6If you want to demonstrate a high IQ score, on the question "MySpace or Facebook" the correct answer would be "neither".
    • sucks, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3....friendster?....

      *gets shot*
  • lkv87, on 11/14/2007, -26/+248Its not a decision. Its not an IQ test. Its where your friends are !
    • hamen, on 10/11/2007, -7/+35Sadly true...
      I'm getting bored to try to convert people each time...
      Sometime I give up and just "register" to their community.
      hamen
    • DeskFlyer, on 11/14/2007, -17/+162"Its not a decision. Its not an IQ test."

      You're right. It's common sense - MySpace blows.
    • Paul, on 10/11/2007, -4/+42I want to find an application that will watch my normal blog feed and re-post all my crap under my profile on these social sites. that way my friends will think I'm participating with them but I'll never have to actually go to that 1997 time capsule of a myspace to do it.
    • KibibyteBrain, on 10/11/2007, -3/+19Also, facebook plays nice with everything, and has even before the whole platfom thing. It does RSS, it is supported by many cross platform blog tools, it exports/imports contact information quite nicely to many formats, the list goes on. I originally started using facebook because of the contact book export/import niceness alone. It makes the tool useful.
    • hdtvdust, on 10/11/2007, -13/+6If you think you are bored, imagine how your "friends" feel. Nothing is more annoying than someone telling others what THEY should do. AS if you know more about what is better for them than they themselves do.
    • shooby, on 10/11/2007, -16/+8So your friends are retarded if they MySpace.
    • 350Zed, on 10/11/2007, -24/+41@lkv87

      Well, if all of your friends on MySpace, and MySpace is for idiots, then your friends are idiots... and that makes you an... anyone? anyone? something-i-o-t?
    • drakethegreat, on 10/11/2007, -12/+4From the title I thought he meant that people on myspace have lower IQs then people on Facebook. I would agree because myspace tends to have more of the college dropouts and those who just got through high school.
    • jmreid, on 10/11/2007, -9/+1hamen to that too.
    • LouisC, on 10/11/2007, -3/+16Eh, I dunno about that. When I started out on Facebook, hardly any of my friends were there. After, like, a month, I only have a couple of friends NOT on facebook.
    • FastZ, on 10/11/2007, -13/+7The only reason I am on Myspace and not Facebook is because Facebook pages just look bland to me. With Myspace, I can go in and alter CSS coding to make my page look however I want it to. Sure, you got kids on there that don't know ***** about writing a decent page via CSS but still, for those of us who know a little bit about decent page design, it's a lot better than Facebook.
    • iWasHere, on 10/11/2007, -4/+17@FastZ

      Could you please post some links to decent looking MySpace pages that are not company sponsored? I have never seen a decent looking MySpace page. There have to be some out there, right?
    • psykiv, on 10/11/2007, -2/+21I've seen some myspace pages that I have to scroll left to right a lot... and I'm running on 1680 x 1050 resolution! Who the heck told you it was a good idea to have 6 songs automatically load AT THE SAME TIME when you load your page? Don't forget the 4 videos below it.

      With that being said, I've seen a *few* nicely designed myspace sites. Really, all you have to do to make it look decent is take out all of those pictures and 20 different wallpapers, the 10 songs playing at a time, the 5 videos, and you're off to a good start.

      Now the question is, does anyone remember orkut? I'm sure even Google doesn't want to remember that one.
    • scotticus, on 11/14/2007, -6/+36If all of my friends were on myspace, I think I'd prefer not having friends.

    • Evil_Gungan, on 10/11/2007, -15/+3@iwashere

      "Could you please post some links to decent looking MySpace pages that are not company sponsored? I have never seen a decent looking MySpace page. There have to be some out there, right?"

      http://www.myspace.com/gmk77

      BOOYAH!!! Feeling crunchy?
    • Pikachelsea, on 10/11/2007, -3/+24Did any of you people actually read the article before frantically commenting about how much MySpace sucks? This article is about which site is financially better for widget-making companies, not which site is better for you to personally sign up with and network with your friends. In which case, considering everyone I know is on MySpace and not Facebook, I go with MySpace.

      And it's not MySpace's fault that half their users are morons who make their page as ugly as humanly possible. Sure, people make absolutely hideous design choices, but it's still their choice and MySpace gives them the freedom to do what they want.
    • Valuum, on 10/11/2007, -7/+6I love how people say if someone has a myspace they're an idiot. Sorry some people have friends that use myspace. I don't get how people say myspace isn't for real friends, whilst they post in digg...

      and oh man, if someone doesn't know html and uses layouts they are just a flat out retard aren't they? Might as well just put them down.
    • MedicineMan, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1@iwashere

      Words cannot adequately describe the pain that went into creating this:
      http://myspace.com/neverateajellyfish

      PS: Do not miss scrolling down through the songs and mousing over for links to music videos, etc.: I in fact just now loaded fresh YouTube links for all my Led Zeppelin favorites.
    • scotticus, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1@valuum: The venn diagram of people I know who are smart and idiots looks exactly like the venn diagram of people I know who have or don't have myspace pages.

      That said, I don't know anyone who is in a band.
    • NOFXY, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1@ iwashere

      I'm not saying my page is amazing or anything but i tried keeping it simple with a fake web 2.0ish look. even used that logo generator thing that was on digg once... or maybe even ten times. gotta love dupes. anyways, heres my page. www.myspace.com/nofx_y

      /prepares to get dugg down/spammed/insulted/burst into flames for having a myspace
    • sanjana123, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0One more important issue that we should not ignore is PRIVACY who gives it. Networking sites means both sex, boys are open girls are less prone to.so where is privay.
      http://www.myspace.com gives least privacy
      http://www.facebook.com has more privacy than myspace comparatively
      http://www.yahoocollege.com is an open site for college guys and girls with more privacy and mutual reationship, thing is that if something is open it is more popular,but when it comes to long run,then it's audience taht has last say.
    • movingtobc, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1If your most of your friends are on Myspace, you need to change friends.
      Most of my friends use Facebook, so I joined.
  • lieutenantmudd, on 10/11/2007, -7/+43Besides all the obvious stuff (good code vs. eye burning websites, reasonable ads and partner advertisers vs being slapped in the face with banners, etc), the myspace vs facebook comes down to the heart of what the sites are about. Myspace is organized around interests, and Facebook is organized around existing networks (schools, workplaces, regions). I'm 24 and I'm on the edge of the age group. People older than me use myspace because facebook wasn't open to them. People younger than me overwhelmingly use facebook over myspace even though myspace is available to them. And worse, the older people are slowly getting facebook accounts.

    At the end of the day, playing around on these sites is more fun if people you know are on it. and people you know are easier to find and interact with on facebook than on myspace because of the way they are organized.
    • Ajajadude, on 10/11/2007, -3/+39The big reason why I can't stand myspace (other than the sluts, the drama, and a large number of morons) is the site's instability. Certain pages won't load more often than not, sections of the site will work with my Firefox one week then stop working the next, the constant need to re-sign in, and oh so much more.
    • AmazingAndrex, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9You think Firefox has it bad? Try browsing it in Opera.
    • snypa, on 10/11/2007, -8/+4I thought it was the complete opposite. Myspace has too many members that are waaay too old to be on it.
  • DuhStupid, on 10/11/2007, -9/+112Both of my pages are blank.

    I just joined to browse the hot slutty babes. (married) :(

  • Jennica, on 10/11/2007, -13/+33I don't have either.
    • glmory, on 10/11/2007, -24/+5I have both.
    • rarkai, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2Ditto. I am surprised that a comparison is being made at all. If i want to talk to my friends, I IM or call them. Why do i need a ***** one page info space? I don't like the idea that info about me will be plainly displayed on line either. I know you can hide it, but back to my point about just freaking calling my friends.
  • sol1964, on 10/11/2007, -24/+19Myspace < Facebook < *
    • FatherMario, on 10/11/2007, -43/+1What is *? HisHolySpace?
    • gulpy, on 10/11/2007, -4/+66* represents everything else. Even ebola.
    • bpapa, on 10/11/2007, -27/+28Spoken like a true loser with no friends.
    • hdtvdust, on 10/11/2007, -17/+15bpapa...you are kidding, right? You think having a Facebook or MySpace account is a requirement for having friends?

      Just the opposite. Don't have friends in "real life"? Get some on the internet!
    • DesignEx, on 10/11/2007, -9/+3Agreed.
    • drafhk, on 10/11/2007, -9/+4@gulpy: I would rather contract ebola than see most myspace profiles. So at that point it's at least Myspace < * < Facebook
    • sol1964, on 10/11/2007, -7/+2bpapa, yeah that must be it. Go eat a dick, bitch.
  • ODSTKuk, on 10/11/2007, -5/+15I have both. I find that Facebook is easier to get the hang of. Easier to communicate with your friends.

    Also if you dont have a facebook account you will not be able to view anyones profile. With Myspace you can google a person and automatically find there Myspace page.

    Facebook is good to have in the sense of security because you wont have to worry about those pictures from someones 18-21 birthday parties where the not so appropriate pictures are taken.
    • Daniel591992, on 10/11/2007, -5/+15One neat thing on Facebook is that I can't join my school network unless I have a valid school email address. Makes everything a lot safer.
    • perogi21, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6@Daniel591992
      Actually, that is the one part of Facebook that I don't like (need school email addy). I cannot join my Alma Mater's network because I no longer have a valid ASU email address.

      Anyone know how to get around it?
    • Netrilix, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4perogi21: Convince your school to supply alumni.school.edu e-mail addresses.
    • mikesty, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Yeh. I can't join my HS network because I've registered with my .edu email addy.
  • NJPENSO, on 10/11/2007, -38/+9They're both the same ***** thing.

    Go outside.
    • McTendo, on 10/11/2007, -5/+53I am outside. How the hell else am I supposed to return pokes and BBQ at the same time?
    • Spyscience, on 10/11/2007, -3/+22I love outside! It's funny when people at a computer talk trash to someone using a site like this. I go outside frequently, I sit at my computer frequently. Balance is key to a happy life my friend. You need to find some happy...hey! Maybe it's outside right now!

      I completely agree that myspace is in many ways lame and full of kids like my nephews whom i constantly mess with for their profiles and stupid bulletin posts and bands being cool and blah. i have faced that it's really just another place for people to wast time or whatever. Truly it's what/why Rupert Murdoch bought it for...another corporate means to advertise and network a bunch of people together through music/video/comedy/ and others so that they can get sponsor money and all get into bed with each other on one site. Very true! I still use it. Simply for networking with bands/dj's/others that I want to make video with or for. The site hosts my movies and gets me exposure. Plus it's a really good way to see what my dj friends are doing and when i can go see a good lecture on Ableton Live or whatever. It's free, once it isn't then well my site is always up anyway.
    • dodus, on 10/11/2007, -15/+3Agreed, myspace for all it's faults, is way better for networking.
  • edesignweb, on 10/11/2007, -27/+2facebook isn't laid out right. there's no real organization, or maybe too much of it.
    • mcdvda, on 10/11/2007, -4/+12@edesignweb
      "facebook isn't laid out right. there's no real organization, or maybe too much of it."

      I think you just proved the point...
  • wingman42, on 10/11/2007, -5/+7This may be the tipping point that Facebook has been looking for.
    • skyshock21, on 10/11/2007, -3/+4What would this mean for the users though?
    • AmazingAndrex, on 10/11/2007, -5/+3Even more fun ways to waste time on Facebook?

      I've already added so many apps it's hard to pry myself away, this is going to be really big as you can see already.
    • Dotcommer, on 10/11/2007, -6/+4The addition of "apps" to facebook is an abomination, and its slowly making facebook turn into myspace. Now instead of ***** looking pages, people are just going to have a super long ass page that scrolls five pages down with apps and all the stupid info about the person.
    • Vindexus, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1@dotcommer

      You can minimize and maximize those widgets on people's pages at will.
  • spyd4r, on 10/11/2007, -17/+24face it, myspace is for 12-14 year olds.... and bands attempting to be cool.
    • hdtvdust, on 10/11/2007, -24/+5And 100 million+ other people. FAR more than Facebook will ever have.
    • CapeKid, on 10/11/2007, -3/+27The band functionality on myspace is the only good thing about it, don't knock it. Whenever I want to hear more from a band, I can just type in that band's name and "myspace" into google and a sampling of their music pops up. Great for when a friend says a band is good, or when I am going to a concert and want to check out the opener. Also great for when Pandora gives me some new band that you can't find stuff from anywhere else. Combine the myspace page with Audacity and you can check out the new band on the go.
      Just because something says myspace next to it doesn't mean you should automatically discredit it.
    • salimai, on 10/11/2007, -1/+26Bands attempting to be cool? You do realize that you'd probably be hard pressed to NOT find your favorite bands on myspace, don't you?
    • djbelieve, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6I'm glad people are bringing up music things on MySpace. I have discovered many artists there. It's not all bad.
    • kutateli, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2@CapeKid

      The new facebook app "iLike" takes care of that. You can now go ahead an delete your myspace account. :)
  • Emrtr4, on 10/11/2007, -15/+7Myspace blows
  • Comms, on 10/11/2007, -11/+1how dare you say that about myspace! *cries*
  • linkthewarrior, on 10/11/2007, -16/+2Myspace is too emo, and facebook breeds stalkers. :/
  • tsun1234, on 10/11/2007, -9/+1"Venture capitalist"... riiight, a very honest opinion...
  • thetaggerung, on 10/11/2007, -2/+10Myspace is truly disorganized. The thing I hate the most is the stupid ads! Thats why I decided to go against Myspace's TOS and block their ads. Still kinda working on it, I just need to align it to completely cover the ads.

    http://techcx.blogspot.com/2007/05/hack-and-destroy-myspaces-ads.html
  • Moosetrail, on 10/11/2007, -19/+0Facebook seriously creeps me out. I mean, "collecting faces" has always seemed kind of wierd to me...seriously, who collects "faces" like baseball cards anyhow?? You shouldn't have over 100 "faces collected" unless your some kind of wierd-0. *shudder*
    /MySpace is just as wierd. Just an opinion.
    • Optimaximal, on 10/11/2007, -1/+90 != o
    • AmazingAndrex, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Collecting Faces? Is that a new widget?
    • Dotcommer, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Just because it IS an opinion, doesnt dismiss you from posting it without thinking twice about whether or not it would be stupid.


      Next time you post a comment. Think to your self: "is this REALLY funny? Will this get me dugg up for sure? Is it smart and/or witty?" If you answer "No" to any of these, dont post your comment.
  • Kyrgizion, on 10/11/2007, -2/+16I never understood the appeal of showcasing my entire life (which isn't interesting to me, much less to anyone else I'd wager) to random strangers. Might just be me though.
    • calvmari, on 10/11/2007, -2/+13That's why I enjoy facebook, only friends I know can see my page. It's a different matter for people who dole out friend invitations.
    • FastZ, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8@Calvmari
      On Myspace you can set your page to only be viewable to those who are already on your friend's list. That way nobody else can see your page unless they request you to be their friend. Then it's up to the user to decide whether they want to be that person's friend or not. Me personally, I only have people on my Myspace page that I know (went to school with, have met at work, in town, etc) and nobody else can see my page. Don't knock Myspace for not being secure when it can be if the user sets certain account restrictions on there.
  • slapthemonkey, on 10/11/2007, -10/+3Its not a decision. Its not an IQ test. Its where your friends are Good one liner.
  • Jeifurie, on 10/11/2007, -16/+2Sorry to comment abuse, but whats this reddit site everyones talking about?
  • herrshuster, on 10/11/2007, -6/+22"Facebook’s timing is perfect. They just released an API that gives third party developers deep access to Facebook functionality and it’s 20 million users."

    its 20 million users, not it's 20 million users

    take an IQ test, geez
    • Scoresheet, on 10/11/2007, -34/+4No, you're wrong. the apostrophe indicates ownership, so "it's" is absolutely correct.
    • AmazingAndrex, on 10/11/2007, -1/+15Wikipedia!

      "its", the possessive adjective and possessive pronoun form of the personal pronoun it
      "it's", a contraction of "it is" or "it has"
      - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Its
    • Jomo, on 10/11/2007, -6/+3Just remember!

      If its suppossed to be possesive its just i-t-s
      but if its a contraction its i-t-apostrophe-s
      ....
      scalawag
    • andrewcod, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4@scoresheet
      No, you're wrong. The apostrophe rule works only with peoples' names. e.g. andrewcod's. Not with its, etc.
    • Stonedonkey, on 10/11/2007, -1/+12"the apostrophe indicates ownership"

      I hope you don't do anything important for a living :)
  • norman619, on 10/11/2007, -11/+6Yay!!! A mayspace vs. facebook turf war. WOOT!!!! Get real people. If Facebook becomes as popular as Myspace guess who peopel will flood with spam? Guess who it will be in style to hate? This whole thing is a joke.
  • hidetoshi, on 10/11/2007, -10/+2I'm sure Facebook is great but I can't be doing with internet stalking.
    • AmazingAndrex, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5Then why do you use the internet?
  • aresef, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Myspace and Facebook are sort of two different cultures. Facebook requires to an extent that users validate themselves to join any network (and therefore, to view any non-friend profile). This makes FB a little more genuine. Nobody has complained about child molesters on Facebook...yet.
    • Spyscience, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6You can set your profile in myspace to ignore band friend requests so tailored music in your profile of those whom you seek out. next you can set your profile so that if someone wants to ask to be a friend they have to know your last name or personal email address. filtering out the really dumb is possible, i wouldn't be able to run without that on myspace. i tried facebook and it's pretty cool but then again I tried friendster and it was at first cool and then there is tribe and blah ble blah blah sites.

      @ thepirateking - i don't have to just look at sluts and laugh at emo kids either. I can sort by many advanced feature levels and get super sluts or light sluts, Japanese sluts or good ol' alabama sluts. sluts 5 miles from where i live and ***** emo kids everywhere. ev ree where i god jebus... there is a lot of emo. but again filter them and make it so that i only get 34 year swinger-married-divorced-just a little extra-other religion-under 59-mother of two.
  • QueenKatrina, on 10/11/2007, -9/+3Funny, I actually tried to explain to someone the difference between MySpace and Facebook yesterday--summed up--MySpace for old people--Facebook for young people. Probably politically incorrect, but anyways, I tried both...cancelled MySpace account after 1 day! Hated the layout, getting requests from weird bands and strangers, hated everything about it. Facebook is a lot simpler and easier to manage. No requests from strangers!
    • Pikachelsea, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Wow, way to be uninformed. All you had to do was block friend requests from bands and require people to enter your last name before adding you. Problem solved.
  • fronta1, on 10/11/2007, -7/+20everyone knows myspace is trash and facebook is class
  • modestmelody, on 10/11/2007, -3/+4As long as Facebook stays virus free, keeps the ads to unobtrusive, and allows me to have way better privacy controls so that most people's lives on Facebook are real and for people who know them only, I'll still with that.

    I'm in college, never had a MySpace despite it being the thing to do in HS, but find Facebook to be a wonderful tool for a college student. I imagine I will have very little use for it post college, however, and I must admit, I'm not sure that I think it' s a great idea to expand it beyond universities. The "already established networks" idea is one that I think works great, but opening to "everyone" and having location networks is not the way to go.
  • gtapro91, on 10/11/2007, -37/+2facebook is alot more organized and has more features than myspace, but isnt it ironic that the two founders of facebook are jewish and the venture capitalized praising facebook is also jewish
    • 1longtime, on 10/11/2007, -1/+23@gtapro91

      please shutup forever. thanks.
    • Spyscience, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! ya had to go and do that. now you go outside, no more computer today. never ever narver ever share again, no!
    • Psalms, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13@ Gtapro91

      Isn't it Ironic that I'm not even Jewish, and I think you're an idiot? Don't make me bitchslap you over the internet, fool.
  • Theipolicy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+17*Sigh* No one remembers friendster.
    • Psalms, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11I remember it! No, just kidding. :)
  • Thepirateking, on 10/11/2007, -0/+21Facebook for friends and finding people I went to school with, myspace for sluts and laughing at emos. Easy. Use both for their intended purpose. At least with myspace I didn't have to register to look at sluts and laugh at emo kids.
    • Spyscience, on 10/11/2007, -7/+3You can set your profile in myspace to ignore band friend requests so tailored music in your profile of those whom you seek out. next you can set your profile so that if someone wants to ask to be a friend they have to know your last name or personal email address. filtering out the really dumb is possible, i wouldn't be able to run without that on myspace. i tried facebook and it's pretty cool but then again I tried friendster and it was at first cool and then there is tribe and blah ble blah blah sites.

      i don't have to just look at sluts and laugh at emo kids either. I can sort by many advanced feature levels and get super sluts or light sluts, Japanese sluts or good ol' alabama sluts. sluts 5 miles from where i live and ***** emo kids everywhere. ev ree where i god jebus... there is a lot of emo. but again filter them and make it so that i only get 34 year swinger-married-divorced-just a little extra-other religion-under 59-mother of two.
  • swoopdog, on 10/11/2007, -7/+1Tagworld FTW!
  • haastyle, on 10/11/2007, -6/+12Facebook is clean and intuitive. Myspace is cluttered and disorganized.
    • Pikachelsea, on 10/11/2007, -2/+17Your face is cluttered and disorganized.
  • shampoovta, on 10/11/2007, -10/+5 Interesting title MySpace v. Facebook: “It’s Not A Decision. It’s an IQ Test” ,..accuse people of stupidity because they haven't jumped on your band wagon eh? I think I feel good enough about my self to survive.

    I get it you want us to try Face book ok already sheesh.





    • swavalier711, on 10/11/2007, -5/+6no bandwagon. Ignoring a vastly better service out of sheer stubbornness is retarded.

      You can keep using myspace as much as you like, though. Freedom of the internet, and so on.
  • weeman43302, on 10/11/2007, -6/+1MyYearbook FTW??
    • AmazingAndrex, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3That was cool for about 2 days.
  • cplusplus, on 10/11/2007, -4/+13MySpace is ugly but Facebook requires your real name, etc. I am not so keen to give that stuff out for all eternity.
    • eean, on 10/11/2007, -3/+35You social network with other pseudonyms then? Do you have fake parties with your fake friends with fake names?
    • Spyscience, on 10/11/2007, -7/+6@ eean - Very awesome comment to that.
  • 00kentt, on 10/11/2007, -6/+0facebook is open source - enough said
  • solomone12, on 10/11/2007, -6/+2Myspace is nothing more than a flea market for pedophiles.
  • dotancohen, on 10/11/2007, -3/+13Isn't Facebook the place where MySpace users go when they finish puberty?
    • STARTSOMETHING, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10isn't facebook a place where frat boy drunks meet?

      both services are just another online high school hallway
    • perogi21, on 10/11/2007, -4/+9@STARTSOMETHING

      Thrown into lockers much?
    • STARTSOMETHING, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4@ perogi21

      no i was just sick and tired of all the emo people complaing about how their isnt any real friends here when they could probably find a real friend at a mall, park, party, etc.....Smartass!
    • perogi21, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2@STARTSOMETHING

      =)

      Actually, if they cannot find anyone to chat with on MySpace, they certainly will not be able to find any "real" people to be friends with.
  • mcdvda, on 10/11/2007, -4/+2Well think about it. Facebook got its start as a college social networking site. Smarter than the average person (well some of them). MySpace can be anyone, usually hs kids and old people. Once Facebook opened up the only people who didn't want to convert over were people who thought facebook was college snobbery aka. less intelligent people. And then the list continues, facebook has better privacy, layout doesn't have 14 random spammer msgs or adds. Plus it looks better, is cleaner, and now with the new widget thing. Goes to show you who knows how to develop for the web and what the technology can do for you. and who's just banking on its advertising
    • funnydale, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2@mcdvda

      "Once Facebook opened up the only people who didn't want to convert over were people who thought facebook was college snobbery aka. less intelligent people"

      Don't you just love the irony of that statement?
  • brivapor, on 10/11/2007, -5/+2people use myspace for band discovery for the most part
    the whole world nows about and uses myspace, facebook is the new little kid in town, myspace is cooler albeit not as techno nerd savy
  • ichbinladen, on 10/11/2007, -7/+4I feel retarded every time I sign on to Myspace. I guess now I know why- I am retarded.
  • coolmike129, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1I liked it better when facebook was only for college students. Soon, like myspace, it's going to inhabit little 14 year olds making profiles.
    Keep it for college students, screw all this venture capitalist *****.
  • Scoresheet, on 10/11/2007, -6/+6Personally, I prefer MySpace. My friends and family use it, I can customise my profile, showcase my work, and also keep in touch with the bands, filmmakers and people I admire. I find facebook too clinical.

    I agree there is a large community of immature people on MySpace, and there is often a lot of rubbish posted. But that doesn't sound too different to a website not a million miles away...

    The fact is, as with every site, if you navigate sensibly, then more often than not everything will be fine. there is room in the market for both. saying that people are automatically stupid for choosing one or the other is pretty ironic.
    • Scoresheet, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5In addition, this blog is misleading. he's not talking about the users,he's talking about the business decision about working with one or the other.
    • Pikachelsea, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1The title of this Digg item is misleading, not the article itself.
  • givemereplay, on 10/11/2007, -4/+3Facebook is almost as passe as myspace.
  • dougaloo222, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0I don't think it matters which one you choose,
    you're losing focus on the real point of each of these:
    To keep in touch with friends and/or to whore your pictures and get as many comments as possible.
  • funkytommyman, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2Or you could meet people in RL
  • STARTSOMETHING, on 10/11/2007, -9/+5bury me for saying this but

    both services are for people with no real social life outside a keyboard
    • omarciddo, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3To have a social life you need friends. To use Facebook you are all but obligated to have friends already that you can add on Facebook. Therefore, to use Facebook you pretty much have to have some sort of social life away from a keyboard.

      With Myspace, just wait for a bit and soon enough you'll have all the spam and bot friends you can imagine.
    • chicken101, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Ummm....facebook allowed me to meet everyone that is going to my college next year. If anything it helped my social life...not hinder it.
    • defythereds, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1it helped me get in touch with some of my real life friends that i hadn't talked to in awhile. used it just this past weekend when i traveled to nyc and needed the contact info for a friend i'd not seen in about two years. we met up and had a few drinks in manhattan and he showed me around a bit. it's also really helpful when you need to ask someone in your class a question and don't have their email (or last name to search the school directory).
  • doshindude, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1almost everyone i know converted to facebook from myspace (except for a very small few, and i have NO idea why the hell they like myspace better than facebook. "it's better for messaging" they say. BS.)
  • Darksaber11, on 10/11/2007, -4/+2I really don't get sites like MySpace. I mean, people say they use it to keep in touch with their friends... okay, don't you have email and IM? At least those are private, and only keep in touch with people you actually *know* not your "friends" from the internet.
    • eean, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5I use Facebook as an alternative for email, especially if I'm not sure what email address a person actively uses. Spam-free emailing basically.

      And you don't use Facebook to network with people from the Internet...
  • keithburgun, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1how about, they're both what you make them. If MYSPACE works for you then it's fine. I don't understand why people have to polarize stuff and get so heated about hating something. Facebook is better, but who cares if someone else likes myspace? what are you bored?
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