I first heard about Facebook during Orientation weekend at college. Back then Facebook was open only to colleges and then only to certain colleges. When it came to the school I was attending at the time, it was a Really Big Deal. Apparently people from my school had been campaigning to get it added for quite awhile. Nobody really used Myspace then, it was all about the ‘book. Nearly everyone I knew had one.
Then it started opening up. First to high school students, then to anyone with a work email, then finally to anyone in the world who wanted to join. Somewhere in all of this came the applications. Not too soon after were the random friend adds from people I’d never heard of. People started abandoning and deleting their profiles, and the ones who didn’t logged in much less often.
Now it’s just like any other site. Nearly all social networking sites try to be like Myspace eventually and destroy the things that made it unique and appealing. All to get more users (and advertising revenue)…
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Hey Renee!
Whoa…trippy colour scheme you’ve got going on! It’s different, and I quite like it.
Anyway, re Facebook - never had a profile there, not interested. Especially as the site barely even loads on my poor widdle dialup modem
By Rhiannon on 06.03.08 12:30 am | Permalink
I am on facebook. I don’t use it as much as I use myspace. It was fun when it just for college students, now that it is open for everyone it is not as exciting anymore.
By Kelly on 06.03.08 9:04 am | Permalink
I don’t even use facebook anymore, I found myspace to be better, but facebook and myspace are just generic now, the same old stuff over and over again.
By Megan on 06.03.08 8:53 pm | Permalink
Honestly, I’ve never had a spacebook account. I’ve been on the web for 13 years, and I’ve always had a blog. But I never utilized the social networking site/apps. I was never on IM. I turned it off and I never joined facebook or any other communities. It was weird. Now I have only MySpace to help keep up with family. Hmm.
By Danni on 06.06.08 9:15 pm | Permalink
I pretty much boycotted facebook for a year or two, and only just bothered to get into it in this last month, as I’ve found it the most convenient way to keep in contact with some people on a certain level. Although, really, I never put as much effort into stuff like facebook or myspace, as I would do my own blog, and I very rarely utilise the blogging functions of myspace and whatnot when I’ve got my own site.. so yeah, it’s somewhat pointless in the end.
By Ashie on 06.09.08 12:23 am | Permalink
I’ve heard of facebook, and a couple of my friends have one, and one tried to make me get one, but I don’t see the point. I have a myspace and that’s what all my friends use, and I like the ability to change my layout + music + photos, whenever I want =]. Facebook is more limited in that area, and I don’t want to try and get my friends to get a facebook. Too much work :/
By C on 06.09.08 10:16 am | Permalink
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