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General Discussion => General Discussion Boards => Technology and Gaming => Topic started by: melodrama on November 07, 2007, 08:15:24 pm
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Pretty self-explanatory really. Says the Facebook whore.
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they're both crap.
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they're both crap.
totally agree with you there on that one.
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I still am too confused with facebook. Maybe when Im in uni or something I will make the full transition
Spam is the most annoying thing on Myspace.
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I'm on myspace. I checked out facebook yesterday and it looks a lot better. But until more of my friend make the transition, i'm sticking with myspace
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Facebook.
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I'd have to say neither :?
Oh look at how many posts i've made ...666 ahhh scary :P
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Facebook doesn't strain my eyes every few seconds, so yes, facebook it is.
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Facebook has so many features! Its so complicated!
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Let's all add each other on facebook and make a FSN group :shock: :shock: :shock:
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There already is one
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I use MySpace, and I must say I hate it! The site is slow, buggy, ugly, etc. The list goes on - it's a great site to communicate with friends and meet people, however.
I tried signing up to Facebook to see what it's like, but:
a) my high school isn't available and under 18s have to join a high school network.
b) none of my friends use it.
Perhaps when it comes to Uni I will use it.
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There's a good reason Facebook wins: usability. Look at your typical* MySpace profile and it's a visual monstrosity. The background is either flashing pink and yellow or it's an annoying tiled image. The font colour is nearly always too similar to the background so it's hard to look at. Plus you usually have five videos playing at once on someone's profile, as well as their favourite song. Combined with a custom cursor, spam consisting of "GET YOUR FREEEE iPHONE!" and "OMFG THANKS FOR THE ADD!!!!1!1111111", content that flows over the sides of the page so the whole visual layout is screwed up, and a cheesy profile picture and you've got a Web 2.0 disaster.
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* some people actually make their profiles readable, but most do not.
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All signed up to the group. Woo...
Edit: no more melodrama? lols. back to spirited sloth it seems.
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Hate both :)
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There's a good reason Facebook wins: usability. Look at your typical* MySpace profile and it's a visual monstrosity. The background is either flashing pink and yellow or it's an annoying tiled image. The font colour is nearly always too similar to the background so it's hard to look at. Plus you usually have five videos playing at once on someone's profile, as well as their favourite song. Combined with a custom cursor, spam consisting of "GET YOUR FREEEE iPHONE!" and "OMFG THANKS FOR THE ADD!!!!1!1111111", content that flows over the sides of the page so the whole visual layout is screwed up, and a cheesy profile picture and you've got a Web 2.0 disaster.
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* some people actually make their profiles readable, but most do not.
ahaha that link is so funny. And true
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LOl yeah that term comes from "the myspace movie" check it out on youtube
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LOL hahahah!!!
I used to call my friend the myspace yeti! haha she got so pissed off
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Facebook all the way, myspace burns my eyes and the bad music makes baby jesus cry.
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They're both good in their own way. The Facebook site itself is a lot better, and their developer API is awesome (it allows programmers like myself to write custom applications for it, and then users can add these applications to their profile). Their architecture was planned out much better (rather than the mess that MySpace maintains at the moment - Their new C#/ASP.NET code mashed into old, rotting ColdFusion code)
However, I use MySpace more, mainly because "everyone" uses it. I've got about 50 friends on Facebook, compared to 230 on MySpace. :P
And one thing about MySpace is they give you more freedom (you may insert your own HTML). Sure, a lot of people use this for "evil" (ugly, ugly MySpace pages), but it can be used for good purposes. As an example, I'm working on a layout that hides everything on the page and replaces it with totally different content (via <div>s).
Add me if you like?
MySpace: http://myspace.com/daniel_1515
Facebook: http://c.zurl.ws/daniel15_facebook [redirect to my profile]
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I heard that in Facebook you can throw virtual pumpkins at your friends or something...is this true??
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I heard that in Facebook you can throw virtual pumpkins at your friends or something...is this true??
Yeah i think so, my friend sent something else once to her whole contact list, poor thing didn't realise what it was til, someone replied to her lol...
P.S wont say what it was lol...
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I heard that in Facebook you can throw virtual pumpkins at your friends or something...is this true??
Heh, yeah, one of the applications allows this (I think SuperPoke)
Note that Facebook apps are third party; they're not developed by Facebook themselves.
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nah that's food fight xD
is it me or is fsn slightly slower today?
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nah that's food fight xD
Ah, cool... I haven't really used that many apps so I wasn't too sure :P
is it me or is fsn slightly slower today?
Must be all the Maths Methods students swarming the forum :lol:
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Must be all the Maths Methods students swarming the forum :lol:
Rawr!
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Sorry Daniel. I denied your friend request on myspace earlier today cause I didnt know who you were lol. But I just realised you're from FSN so I've friend requested yah as of 2 minutes ago lol.
Soz. :)
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Sorry Daniel. I denied your friend request on myspace earlier today cause I didnt know who you were lol. But I just realised you're from FSN so I've friend requested yah as of 2 minutes ago lol.
Soz. :)
I added you? Lolz, I can't even remember doing that. Oh well.
I got your friend request and was like, "Who's this guy?". At least I know now :P
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number of facebook conversions: 3.
i should get paid or something.
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you cant do ANYTHING with your facebook page... its all messy and ick. im a myspace whore from way back so im sticking with my roots.
myspace me, fersure!
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hmm i did use both, but i kind of abandoned my myspace :P they have too many errors and plus facebook is really fun with all the applications u can add to play games and such :) plus superpoke RULES :D
plus with facebook i suppose you have more privacy, like only people from the same network as you can view your profile unless you choose for nobody from those networks to, and then when you add/accept people i like that you can restrict what they can see :) better than myspace for sure
oh and yeh i joined up the FSN facebook group :)
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Yeah, Facebook is awesome like that :D. It's easy to write apps for it, I've written a simple app so far (an app to embed Flash animations on your profile) :)
Oh, and look at my MySpace: http://myspace.com/daniel_1515
I completely redid the layout, this time hiding all the default MySpace stuff and completely redoing the layout so it's all nice and clean. It's kinda incomplete, and I'm a coder not a designer, but IMO it's still better than a lot of MySpace profiles :P
Here, have a screenshot:
[img]http://stuff.daniel15.com/images/thumb.php/myspace/newlayout.png[/img]
:D
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You must provide your full name.
I'm trying to sign up (like i said I would never do, wheee) but it won't let me name myself mel, mel mel, princess mel or mel the queen =/
Can people see your surname when you sign up, so if I put something generic like smith or jones it will be all good?
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You must provide your full name.
I'm trying to sign up (like i said I would never do, wheee) but it won't let me name myself mel, mel mel, princess mel or mel the queen =/
Can people see your surname when you sign up, so if I put something generic like smith or jones it will be all good?
yeah people can see your full name. I'm a recent addict :oops:
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You must provide your full name.
I'm trying to sign up (like i said I would never do, wheee) but it won't let me name myself mel, mel mel, princess mel or mel the queen =/
Can people see your surname when you sign up, so if I put something generic like smith or jones it will be all good?
yeah people can see your full name. I'm a recent addict :oops:
Great. So I need to keep trying until something fake works? :K *kicks the stupid site*
I can't be mel rocks either =(
edit: I can't be Mel FakeSurname either ;-; (tried that for the hell of it). This is harddd
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You must provide your full name.
I'm trying to sign up (like i said I would never do, wheee) but it won't let me name myself mel, mel mel, princess mel or mel the queen =/
Can people see your surname when you sign up, so if I put something generic like smith or jones it will be all good?
That's the thing with Facebook - No screen names, it shows your full name.
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Great. So I need to keep trying until something fake works? :K *kicks the stupid site*
I can't be mel rocks either =(
edit: I can't be Mel FakeSurname either ;-; (tried that for the hell of it). This is harddd
wait.. how do they know it's not your real name?
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"Our automated system will not approve this name. If you believe this is an error, please contact our Customer Support team."
I don't think I can convince them any of my names are my real name, somehow xD
Edit - can you change your name after you sign up?
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"Our automated system will not approve this name. If you believe this is an error, please contact our Customer Support team."
I don't think I can convince them any of my names are my real name, somehow xD
Edit - can you change your name after you sign up?
wait, they probably know because your name will be on your hotmail account. Just make a dummy hotmail account
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Yeah, Facebook is awesome like that :D. It's easy to write apps for it, I've written a simple app so far (an app to embed Flash animations on your profile) :)
Oh, and look at my MySpace: http://myspace.com/daniel_1515
I completely redid the layout, this time hiding all the default MySpace stuff and completely redoing the layout so it's all nice and clean. It's kinda incomplete, and I'm a coder not a designer, but IMO it's still better than a lot of MySpace profiles :P
Here, have a screenshot:
[img]http://stuff.daniel15.com/images/thumb.php/myspace/newlayout.png[/img]
:D
Kellie has emo hair.
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i dont see what the problem is with giving your first and last name, after all you just choose what privacy settings you want, so that people even though they are in the same school/uni/country network as you are cant see your profile. until they add you of course :)
it just seems more mature?.. especially when you dont see people with ridiculous capitals n stuff like if i did this: "eAn weI Hu@Ng" :P just gets rid of the annoying names like that
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It's just because I don't want people I don't know in RL (or RL related things) knowing my surname, especially seeing as most of my friends I only know on the internet. Back in the day you weren't supposed to give out personally identifiable information, and the fact that I know on this site I have said enough for someone to work out exactly who I am if they tried is bordering on the edge of what I don't like.
And it's just that I don't trust people I don't know very well. There could be stalkers out there :o
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ah well you make a fair point, :P then again if friends want to search for you they wont be able to find you. ahah
if you are asian like myself just use a generic last name (sorry if this is your actual last name :P): Lee, Chan, Wong, etc.
then again you could just go for the old John Smith type :P haha
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I just saw someone in the group "Paul Erdos Fan Club" with the last name "Mathislife." Sounds like a real last name if you don't realise it's Math-is-life, haha.
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I just saw someone in the group "Paul Erdos Fan Club" with the last name "Mathislife." Sounds like a real last name if you don't realise it's Math-is-life, haha.
Oooh, that's a good suggestion! :o (not that i'd be putting mathsislife, but something based off that general idea) ty :*
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Yeah, Facebook is awesome like that :D. It's easy to write apps for it, I've written a simple app so far (an app to embed Flash animations on your profile) :)
Oh, and look at my MySpace: http://myspace.com/daniel_1515
I completely redid the layout, this time hiding all the default MySpace stuff and completely redoing the layout so it's all nice and clean. It's kinda incomplete, and I'm a coder not a designer, but IMO it's still better than a lot of MySpace profiles :P
Here, have a screenshot:
[img]http://stuff.daniel15.com/images/thumb.php/myspace/newlayout.png[/img]
:D
Kellie has emo hair.
Yeah...
Woo
:D
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:( I finally joined with my real name
And now I can't work out how to join the FSN group xD I see no 'join group' button etc =/
Edit - ok, seriously where is it, because I managed to find the group of my school, and that had a shiny 'join group' button in the top right corner.
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:( I finally joined with my real name
And now I can't work out how to join the FSN group xD I see no 'join group' button etc =/
Edit - ok, seriously where is it, because I managed to find the group of my school, and that had a shiny 'join group' button in the top right corner.
http://unimelbedu.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5668179018
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Screenshot of my problem:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v711/happypuff/facebook.jpg
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i joined it
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That's weird cara.mel. Mine has a 'join this group' button right under the fsn picture
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Sorry, fixed now.
Coblin told me I need to join the network 'Australia' first. Stupid thing *kicks*
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Sorry, fixed now.
Coblin told me I need to join the network 'Australia' first. Stupid thing *kicks*
When I signed up I was automatically added to that network, I think?
And yeah, some groups have a limitation that only certain networks can join them. I guess this is turned on for the FSN group.
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Facebook > MySpace
Simply because Facebook is much better documented than MySpace. Hell, it even has a Java/PHP API!
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facebook all the way! though admittedly i do have a myspace too. i just rarely use it. whereas i'm on facebook several times a day. such an addictive site.
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I have both as well. I prefer Facebook but I have fewer friends on there.
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I have both as well. I prefer Facebook but I have fewer friends on there.
other way around for me - everyone from college has facebook, so i have like 200+ people on there.
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FB FTW :angel: :coolsmiley:
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I have both as well. I prefer Facebook but I have fewer friends on there.
other way around for me - everyone from college has facebook, so i have like 200+ people on there.
Haha same. I think you'll get heaps of Facebook buddies once you're in university :D
BTW, this was necromancy. It wasn't just 3 days old, it was more than a month old!
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I have both as well. I prefer Facebook but I have fewer friends on there.
other way around for me - everyone from college has facebook, so i have like 200+ people on there.
Haha same. I think you'll get heaps of Facebook buddies once you're in university :D
BTW, this was necromancy. It wasn't just 3 days old, it was more than a month old!
You're stealing Obsolete Chaos' job!
edit: moved post outside of quote
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;D joshuamorgan this thread has been dead for 7 Hr 31 Min, how could u... :o
haha
i realised i was annoying quite a few ppl, i'll stop now :P sorry...
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Facebook ftw. :D
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hate them both...
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hate them both...
Same here lol ... *high 5*
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both are a waste of time, especially during yr 12 when you wanna do your best
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psssh, being an interweb addict in yr12 is half the fun ;)
though i was more of a forum addict in yr12. but at uni = facebook junkie. it's addictive! best way to procrastinate. other than drinking, that is... ???
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MySpace.. too lazy to make a facebook. Myspace is enough of tgime wasting for me
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Updated my MySpace layout again :P
(http://stuff.daniel15.com/images/myspace/myspace-20080114-thumb.png)
Yes, I do understand my About Me is way too long, I'll shorten it sometime soon.
Speaking of MySpace, anyone seen how the homepage looks different depending on what country you choose? Click "MySpace International" at the bottom of the page and try it :P
MySpace Japan looks way different:
[img]http://stuff.daniel15.com/images/thumb.php/myspace/home-jp.png[/img]
French is slightly different (the "Control Panel" on the left is formatted differently):
[img]http://stuff.daniel15.com/images/thumb.php/myspace/home-fr.png[/img]
MySpace.cn (China) is a completely different, very nice looking MySpace :P
[img]http://stuff.daniel15.com/images/thumb.php/myspace/home-cn.png[/img]
Too bad I don't read Chinese nor Japanese :P
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MySpace.cn (China) is a completely different, very nice looking MySpace :P
[img]http://stuff.daniel15.com/images/thumb.php/myspace/home-cn.png[/img]
GO CHINA!
but i thought it was banned in china??
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but i thought it was banned in china??
MySpace.cn is a separate website, accounts on the normal MySpace don't work on it. It's run by a different company, inside China (the main MySpace is owned by News Corp / Fox). Supposedly, search results, messages, comments, etc. are censored in China
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but i thought it was banned in china??
MySpace.cn is a separate website, accounts on the normal MySpace don't work on it. It's run by a different company, inside China (the main MySpace is owned by News Corp / Fox). Supposedly, search results, messages, comments, etc. are censored in China
wow! then how come you could log on??
EDIT: wait no~~~
last year when my school had a myspace crack-down everyone started using myspace.cn and could see each other's profile perfectly...
EDIT2: and btw i was the chief translator during the hard times... :P LOOOOL
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wow! then how come you could log on??
Got my friend (who reads Chinese) to make a new account there for me :)
I would have done it myself, but the CAPTCHA (verification code) was in Chinese :P
EDIT: wait no~~~
last year when my school had a myspace crack-down everyone started using myspace.cn and could see each other's profile perfectly...
You can see profiles correctly, but I don't think you can log in. At least, mine doesn't work.
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wow! then how come you could log on??
Got my friend (who reads Chinese) to make a new account there for me :)
I would have done it myself, but the CAPTCHA (verification code) was in Chinese :P
LOL that's sic!
EDIT: wait no~~~
last year when my school had a myspace crack-down everyone started using myspace.cn and could see each other's profile perfectly...
You can see profiles correctly, but I don't think you can log in. At least, mine doesn't work.
mmm wtf?
i could swear me and my friends could log on before...! changes must be recent... :(
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I just created a Facebook after having a MySpace profile for about a year. Based on a few days use, Facebook rocks!
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meh... they both are pooooooooooo
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Whoa. Talk about Necromancy.
Old thread is old.
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That's it. I'm tired of this super necromancy crimes. Don't bloody revive the thread if you don't have anything bloody good to say.
Can I delete these posts (incl. mine) ? need permission :P
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Nah, let it die in its own fire.
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facebook and myspace both fail
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Nah, let it die in its own fire.
This fire burns, ALWAYS~ ;D
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facebook and myspace both fail