Posted: 11/18/2009 8:42:31 PM EDT
| Facebook has replaced MySpace in most ways. How long do you think Facebook will last before something else comes along? |
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I prefer FB over MySpace. It's much more effective at staying connected with people versus MySpace.
Only drawback is I have my entire family on my Facebook friends list, so when my personal life shenanigans come up, or a post a colorfully worded rant, I get lots of calls about my wall entries. 
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FB's demise started when they allowed anyone with an email address to sign up. Now I'm seeing my relatives that are in their 50's on FB that haven't been to a school in over 30 years. All the high school kids are worse. How is that a bad thing? You don't want people over a certain age to be able to use a social network site? |
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I prefer FB over MySpace. It's much more effective at staying connected with people versus MySpace. Only drawback is I have my entire family on my Facebook friends list, so when my personal life shenanigans come up, or a post a colorfully worded rant, I get lots of calls about my wall entries. My mother just about had a coronary when I posted the Ed Norton rant on mine. In her mind, since she saw it, all her people could see it. |
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FB's demise started when they allowed anyone with an email address to sign up. Now I'm seeing my relatives that are in their 50's on FB that haven't been to a school in over 30 years. All the high school kids are worse. Perhaps they realized there is no money in keeping Facebook an enterprise for college students, and decided they had to fan out simply to keep afloat. BTW, what's wrong with people over 50? Most everyone leaves their college years eventually. Should Facebook ban everyone when they graduate at age 22? 
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I prefer FB over MySpace. It's much more effective at staying connected with people versus MySpace. Only drawback is I have my entire family on my Facebook friends list, so when my personal life shenanigans come up, or a post a colorfully worded rant, I get lots of calls about my wall entries. that's what's screwing it for me. My mom and my MiL are on there now. can't really speak your mind openly with mom and mom in law on there..... I don't use it much anymore. |
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I don't know but after they updated the last time it sucks ass, and yes I know you can change it to look like it did before but I don't get my updates like I used to.  Yea the "news feed" is stupid and does not even update in order. WTF is up with that anyways?
FaceBook will fall by the wayside as soon as a viable alternative is started and people get tired of fuckin YoVille, FarmVille, Mafia Wars, Friend Tokens........... Like I give a shit my friend Jim just bought a goose for his farm. Seriously. 
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Quoted: Quoted: Facebook has replaced MySpace in most ways. How long do you think Facebook will last before something else comes along? Myspace hit it's peak in 2006 right? So I doubt Facebook will be popular more than another 2 or 3 years max. Followed by Twitter shortly thereafter. I hate social networking bullshit. It's all a fad, and no one is so interesting, that I want to follow you, or keep track of what you do, or get an update on your morning dump, or whatever. Who fucking cares. |
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Facebook will have serious staying power for the time being because of a significant class divide between it and Myspace. Myspace has turned into the ghetto of the internet following the internet equivalent of white flight to Facebook. Facebook's downturn will come when the digital thugs from Myspace finish emigrating over. You will see a rise in the use of privacy settings when wall-spam and viruses start spreading like they did on Myspace.
Christ, urban-types can fuck your shit up even on the internet. - BG |
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EDIT: I will point, additionally, that I agree with the assessment that Facebook started going downhill when they allowed everyone and their brother to make an account. Back when you HAD to have a .edu email address, things were awesome. Your irresponsible buddy could post pictures of him taking a massive bong rip without repercussions, and your failed keg-stand that resulted in a black eye could be spoken of with impunity. Now your employee and your mother are taking notes. - BG |
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FB's demise started when they allowed anyone with an email address to sign up. Now I'm seeing my relatives that are in their 50's on FB that haven't been to a school in over 30 years. All the high school kids are worse. This will be facebook's undoing |
I dont really care one way or the other.
I was never on My Space and will never Twitter . The only reason I joined Facebook was to re-connect with my old GF (who is now my fiance) , and now I see it as a time killer when Im bored and a way to swap pictures between my family and friends. I refuse to buy a farm or join Mafia Wars ,take very few of the polls, and wont hesitate to ignore anyone or anything I dont like, and I usually dont type anything Im ashamed of (anywhere) and dont care who sees what I post here or on FB (as long as they are in my 'friends list'.) I have,however, found it useful in the 'weeding out' of my liberal classmates and old ,useless 'friends'. |
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Quoted: Quoted: FB's demise started when they allowed anyone with an email address to sign up. Now I'm seeing my relatives that are in their 50's on FB that haven't been to a school in over 30 years. All the high school kids are worse. How is that a bad thing? You don't want people over a certain age to be able to use a social network site? If I were still single I wouldn't want my mom to see all my pie-getting updates, because that is what I would be using facebook for. By opening it up to everyone the atmosphere changed from a keg party to a church picnic. |
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Quoted: Farmville will kill FB. I am sick and tired of reading stupid farmville updates on the newsfeed, I think I am tapping out of FB. Have you ever noticed that nifty "hide" button? Click it, you get the choice of hiding the user or whatever app the entry falls under. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Farmville will kill FB. I am sick and tired of reading stupid farmville updates on the newsfeed, I think I am tapping out of FB. Have you ever noticed that nifty "hide" button? Click it, you get the choice of hiding the user or whatever app the entry falls under. Awesome. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: FB's demise started when they allowed anyone with an email address to sign up. Now I'm seeing my relatives that are in their 50's on FB that haven't been to a school in over 30 years. All the high school kids are worse. How is that a bad thing? You don't want people over a certain age to be able to use a social network site? If I were still single I wouldn't want my mom to see all my pie-getting updates, because that is what I would be using facebook for. By opening it up to everyone the atmosphere changed from a keg party to a church picnic. So instead of having nothing but broke college kids on there to stare at the ads, now they've got soccer moms with their husbands credit cards. Seems like a sound business plan to me. |
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FB's demise started when they allowed anyone with an email address to sign up. Now I'm seeing my relatives that are in their 50's on FB that haven't been to a school in over 30 years. All the high school kids are worse. yeah....... it was cool back when it was only a few college kids... now it's just ghey... |
| I think the big difference is the search function on myspace vs. FB. On myspace you can search geographical areas for whatever you want and most profiles are public. On FB you have to at least know the name or email of the person you are looking for and in most cases request their permission to view their page. You can't go to Facebook and search for divorced, blond, female, between 5'2 and 5'3, average slim/body, no kids, within 10 miles like you can on myspace. Not yet anyway. Myspace is more like a ghetto dating site now. |
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MySpace sux because it's so cluttered and full of BS ads and annoying little kids.....
I joined Facebook because it was still actually a social networking site (at the time) and actually seemed to have members older than 14.........but now all I see are endless lists of what games everybody's playing, stupid surveys, messages about who popped their zits for lunch, and endless "invitations" to Mafia Wars and every other stupid game they can come up with. It does have a redeeming quality....I used to use Military.com to track down friends from the military but I've found it's easier to find them with Facebook, more people know about it and there are unit pages, I've been finding people I haven't seen in 20 years. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: FB's demise started when they allowed anyone with an email address to sign up. Now I'm seeing my relatives that are in their 50's on FB that haven't been to a school in over 30 years. All the high school kids are worse. How is that a bad thing? You don't want people over a certain age to be able to use a social network site? If I were still single I wouldn't want my mom to see all my pie-getting updates, because that is what I would be using facebook for. By opening it up to everyone the atmosphere changed from a keg party to a church picnic. So instead of having nothing but broke college kids on there to stare at the ads, now they've got soccer moms with their husbands credit cards. Seems like a sound business plan to me. Thank you captain obvious. The question was not the strength of the business plan.  |