Web "2.0" social sites
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Recently I have heard about and/or read various articles talking about/hyping social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, etc. I have even occasionally overheard people on the street make mention or their Facebook or MySpace profile. Personally after having looked at the sites, I now tend to assume that anyone who uses them is an idiot, unless something convinces me otherwise. Does anyone here actually use these things? If so why?
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Recently I have heard about and/or read various articles talking about/hyping social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, etc. I have even occasionally overheard people on the street make mention or their Facebook or MySpace profile. Personally after having looked at the sites, I now tend to assume that anyone who uses them is an idiot, unless something convinces me otherwise. Does anyone here actually use these things? If so why?
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It's a thing that you either "get" or you don't. Obviously you don't. MySpace has been particular popular among non signed (and now signed as well) musicians as a way to easily spread their music, since then it has then spread to become a generic social site. Facebook is simply the "new MySpace". To imply that people who use it are idiots is beyond arrogant - there are many reasonable uses of such sites, and even though I don't have a profile on any such site myself I can see the idea and appeal. You have to remember that the target audience are almost exclusively non-technical persons, persons who don't have a blog, persons who don't have a web site, persons who rarely if ever post on internet message boards or mailing lists.
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Recently I have heard about and/or read various articles talking about/hyping social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, etc. I have even occasionally overheard people on the street make mention or their Facebook or MySpace profile. Personally after having looked at the sites, I now tend to assume that anyone who uses them is an idiot, unless something convinces me otherwise. Does anyone here actually use these things? If so why?
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I created a Facebook profile just to shut someone up. I have no intention of going retarded with it like some have. X|
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Recently I have heard about and/or read various articles talking about/hyping social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, etc. I have even occasionally overheard people on the street make mention or their Facebook or MySpace profile. Personally after having looked at the sites, I now tend to assume that anyone who uses them is an idiot, unless something convinces me otherwise. Does anyone here actually use these things? If so why?
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Jim Crafton wrote:
Personally after having looked at the sites, I now tend to assume that anyone who uses them is an idiot, unless something convinces me otherwise.
I am one of the idiot. I "use" Facebook, I think it's really well made (compared to mySpace), good basic implementation and tons of add-on applications, most of them are pure crap, but others are cool. The main selling point is that all pages use the same "UI" look'n'feel; not like what can happen to most of the mySpace pages. I "use" Facebook now as a ready-made "home" page to place photos and stuff to share between selected friends. I'm not spending hours trying to find people I don't care about from school and try to be "friend" with them if I was not at the time, and even if we were friends, if we did not see each other in the last 20 years, I don't really care about them.
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Recently I have heard about and/or read various articles talking about/hyping social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, etc. I have even occasionally overheard people on the street make mention or their Facebook or MySpace profile. Personally after having looked at the sites, I now tend to assume that anyone who uses them is an idiot, unless something convinces me otherwise. Does anyone here actually use these things? If so why?
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I'm sorry, but myspace has been around for a long time now. It's been "popular" for 2 years at least. You're just now looking at them? Facebook has been around quite some time as well, 2 or 3 years. :|
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Recently I have heard about and/or read various articles talking about/hyping social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, etc. I have even occasionally overheard people on the street make mention or their Facebook or MySpace profile. Personally after having looked at the sites, I now tend to assume that anyone who uses them is an idiot, unless something convinces me otherwise. Does anyone here actually use these things? If so why?
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Jim Crafton wrote:
If so why?
Recently, my neice and husband adopted a little girl from China. During the four weeks that they were away, they were able to stay in touch with a pretty large extended family. They uploaded daily, numerous pictures that told us all how they were getting along in starting to raise Sian, their new daughter. They could also tell us stories of things that happened to them. While I'm not a big fan of blogs and all of the goings on with social networking sites, I looked forward to reading each of the new entries they and others posted each day. For me this was a much better way for all of us, the extended family, to be able to stay in touch with the two of them than either the telephone or email. :)
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I'm sorry, but myspace has been around for a long time now. It's been "popular" for 2 years at least. You're just now looking at them? Facebook has been around quite some time as well, 2 or 3 years. :|
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I have been aware of it's popularity for a few years. I just never bothered to post on it till now. I'll try and be more responsive in the future :)
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Recently I have heard about and/or read various articles talking about/hyping social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, etc. I have even occasionally overheard people on the street make mention or their Facebook or MySpace profile. Personally after having looked at the sites, I now tend to assume that anyone who uses them is an idiot, unless something convinces me otherwise. Does anyone here actually use these things? If so why?
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It's a way to stay in contact with folks. I just found 2 old friends last week from my teen years and have been chatting them up. MySpace is filled with ads and spam accounts. It errors out often, and it's rather ugly. But people use it because of the social aspect ("I have 253 friends!!!111eleven111") and also because they get to talk about themselves, which people generally like to do. (That's why blogging took off, right?) Facebook is a higher-class, more sophisticated Myspace with less spam, more spam bot-prevention measures, and user pages look sane in comparison to user-uploaded MySpace templates (dark gray text on black, flashing, marquee background, anyone?). It's the Yuppie version of MySpace.
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Recently I have heard about and/or read various articles talking about/hyping social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, etc. I have even occasionally overheard people on the street make mention or their Facebook or MySpace profile. Personally after having looked at the sites, I now tend to assume that anyone who uses them is an idiot, unless something convinces me otherwise. Does anyone here actually use these things? If so why?
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Jim Crafton wrote:
Does anyone here actually use these things? If so why?
I don't but I know a large number of artists, musicians, photographers, and paint-on-canvas artists who use it as free advertising. The standard human it may seem a bit narcisistic but for a struggling artist, it is a chance to be seen. For your average person, they have no reason to be seen, other than ... they want to be seen. I am on a few, but a blank profile so my friends show they have friends or something like that. I do understand some valid reasons for getting a profile. Yolanda Martinez[^] has a MySpace profile, not sure of others. She like other artists use it primarily as a promotional link back to their main site.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Recently I have heard about and/or read various articles talking about/hyping social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, etc. I have even occasionally overheard people on the street make mention or their Facebook or MySpace profile. Personally after having looked at the sites, I now tend to assume that anyone who uses them is an idiot, unless something convinces me otherwise. Does anyone here actually use these things? If so why?
¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! VCF Blog
Jim Crafton wrote:
I now tend to assume that anyone who uses them is an idiot, unless something convinces me otherwise.
Well then I guess I'm an idiot.
Jim Crafton wrote:
Does anyone here actually use these things?
I do.
Jim Crafton wrote:
If so why?
It's fun. Cheers, Drew.
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Jim Crafton wrote:
I now tend to assume that anyone who uses them is an idiot, unless something convinces me otherwise.
Well then I guess I'm an idiot.
Jim Crafton wrote:
Does anyone here actually use these things?
I do.
Jim Crafton wrote:
If so why?
It's fun. Cheers, Drew.
Drew Stainton wrote:
Well then I guess I'm an idiot.
Not at all. The fact that you even admit the possibility of being an idiot precludes you from actually being one in real life. I'll be sure to take you off my idiot list.
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Drew Stainton wrote:
Well then I guess I'm an idiot.
Not at all. The fact that you even admit the possibility of being an idiot precludes you from actually being one in real life. I'll be sure to take you off my idiot list.
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Recently I have heard about and/or read various articles talking about/hyping social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, etc. I have even occasionally overheard people on the street make mention or their Facebook or MySpace profile. Personally after having looked at the sites, I now tend to assume that anyone who uses them is an idiot, unless something convinces me otherwise. Does anyone here actually use these things? If so why?
¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! VCF Blog
I have not done anything at Facebook yet, but about a year ago I checked out what was happening with MySpace since everyone seemed to be talking abou it. I think one reason it grew so fast is that it allowed teens to post all kinds of content without restrictions. That appeared to be thier focus was teens and it worked to the tune of a huge profit. All these sites seem to try building a place where people share about themselves giving the space in a place of people. When you create a blog somewhere, it is usually just "out there" in the Internet space, but when you create a myspace account, you are instantly exposed to others. So, it boils down to if you want this kind of exposure or not.
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Recently I have heard about and/or read various articles talking about/hyping social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, etc. I have even occasionally overheard people on the street make mention or their Facebook or MySpace profile. Personally after having looked at the sites, I now tend to assume that anyone who uses them is an idiot, unless something convinces me otherwise. Does anyone here actually use these things? If so why?
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I was talked into using Facebook a while ago. Most of the people i know through Fencing are on it so it has been a convenient way to keep in touch and exchange photos. As a side benefit, people i've lost touch with for over a decade have found my FB account and gotten back in touch. I'm far from fanatical about using it, i treat it more like an online address book.
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Recently I have heard about and/or read various articles talking about/hyping social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, etc. I have even occasionally overheard people on the street make mention or their Facebook or MySpace profile. Personally after having looked at the sites, I now tend to assume that anyone who uses them is an idiot, unless something convinces me otherwise. Does anyone here actually use these things? If so why?
¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! VCF Blog
Uhmm ...perhaps I'm an idiot, but I would qualify CP itself as being amongst the web whatever you call it social sites. And you're on it :)
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Uhmm ...perhaps I'm an idiot, but I would qualify CP itself as being amongst the web whatever you call it social sites. And you're on it :)
Damn! Caught with my pants down! :)
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