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- 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'.
_ - lkv87, on 11/14/2007, -26/+248Its not a decision. Its not an IQ test. Its where your friends are !
- 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. - VaporBro, on 10/26/2007, -14/+180That's what she said.
- inactive, on 11/14/2007, -14/+161~>.:';;;..:_MySpACe iS aWeSoMe*+*+*+*+
- 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. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -9/+112Both of my pages are blank.
I just joined to browse the hot slutty babes. (married) :( - gulpy, on 10/11/2007, -4/+66* represents everything else. Even ebola.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. - 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?
- scotticus, on 11/14/2007, -6/+36If all of my friends were on myspace, I think I'd prefer not having friends.
- 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.
- 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 - 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?
- 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. - 1longtime, on 10/11/2007, -1/+23@gtapro91
please shutup forever. thanks. - 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.
- inactive, 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. - Jennica, on 10/11/2007, -13/+33I don't have either.
- 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. - 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. - 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? - 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 - 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.
- 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. - Theipolicy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+17*Sigh* No one remembers friendster.
- 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.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+17Your face is cluttered and disorganized.
- 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 - 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. - 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.
- fronta1, on 10/11/2007, -7/+20everyone knows myspace is trash and facebook is class
- 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? - Psalms, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11I remember it! No, just kidding. :)
- 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.
- Stonedonkey, on 10/11/2007, -1/+12"the apostrophe indicates ownership"
I hope you don't do anything important for a living :) - 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 - 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
- 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. - 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.
- dotancohen, on 10/11/2007, -3/+13Isn't Facebook the place where MySpace users go when they finish puberty?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 - 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!
- 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. -
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