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« Reply #15 on: November 08, 2007, 07:22:22 am »
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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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« Reply #16 on: November 08, 2007, 04:02:14 pm »
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LOl yeah that term comes from "the myspace movie" check it out on youtube

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« Reply #17 on: November 08, 2007, 07:33:30 pm »
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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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« Reply #18 on: November 08, 2007, 07:38:53 pm »
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Facebook all the way, myspace burns my eyes and the bad music makes baby jesus cry.

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« Reply #19 on: November 08, 2007, 09:50:46 pm »
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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).

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« Reply #20 on: November 09, 2007, 10:21:13 am »
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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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« Reply #21 on: November 09, 2007, 10:25:11 am »
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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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« Reply #22 on: November 09, 2007, 10:25:27 am »
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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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« Reply #23 on: November 09, 2007, 10:50:25 am »
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nah that's food fight xD

is it me or is fsn slightly slower today?

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« Reply #24 on: November 09, 2007, 11:07:27 am »
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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

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is it me or is fsn slightly slower today?

Must be all the Maths Methods students swarming the forum  :lol:
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« Reply #25 on: November 09, 2007, 12:06:58 pm »
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Must be all the Maths Methods students swarming the forum  :lol:


Rawr!

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« Reply #26 on: November 09, 2007, 08:06:19 pm »
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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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« Reply #27 on: November 09, 2007, 08:18:07 pm »
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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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« Reply #28 on: November 09, 2007, 08:25:33 pm »
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number of facebook conversions: 3.

i should get paid or something.

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« Reply #29 on: November 10, 2007, 01:12:35 pm »
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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.

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