Facebook vs Myspace
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Since I started using Facebook, a social networking website that allows you to connect to old friends from around the world and make new ones in the Internet, I don’t remember or don’t even care of checking Myspace, another social networking website established so much ahead Facebook and it became so popular no one would think another website such as Facebook could beat its record.
Facebook offers an intuitive way of finding people who may be related to you based on your profile information, particularly on the school where you graduated from. Fast to browse and navigate, Facebook is more reliable since most people are using their real name in their profiles. There may be who are faking their identities online but their number is very insignificant compared to the millions of sincere member of Facebook.
Myspace, on the other hand, stagnates. The site, whose record has been beaten by Facebook in terms of number of unique visitors and membership count, did not make a significant improvement until it realized that it was already behind Facebook. Myspace has been accused as a place where pedophiles love to hang out. Most of its members are teens.
I used Myspace once but I left the site after I was blocked to access my own account. I was suspected of being an illegal bot. I was just adding new friends to my account and I couldn’t to for tomorrow to add them one by one, and Myspace saw that suspicious and immediately banned me. I didn’t create a second account, for all I care. I just left Myspace and was resolved I won’t be coming to the site ever again.
Facebook does not just block an account. It gives you a warning that what you’re doing may have violated one of its terms of use/service. So you’d know you’re doing the wrong thing and avoid repeating the same mistake.
One thing I like about Facebook is that its site ads are not intrusive. The ads are placed, in a nice manner, at the right side of the page. Nothing flashy. Nothing annoying.
Maybe one day I would give Myspace a second look and get a new account. I haven’t really explored the site. But as they say, first impressions last. When I got into Facebook I had a very good impression on the site, and it seems that I’d be hooked into this site for some time. But never will I become an addict of Facebook. Time is gold and I can’t sell it to Facebook.
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Kevin Paquet said:
MySpace and Facebook cater to different type of users. There must be some other kind of user -that is slowly dying out- which made MySpace so successful and have it still cling on a very high notch among other social networks.
It’s just hard to call if either Facebook’s target has broaden or if, like I said above, the more fancy users of MySpace have transformed to people who value socialization more than all the fancy stuff.
August 21st, 2009 at 3:04 pm -
elite gamers said:
Facebook is a lot more “professional” then myspace – facebook does not have the excessive graphics, annoying videos, blinding graphics,,,, all the stuff that turns people off of myspace.
Personally, I like facebook a lot more then I do myspace. I like the gallery and especially the video uploading feature. If you want to upload videos linger then about 2 minutes, you have a verify your account. Which I did not mind doing.
September 12th, 2009 at 9:11 pm -
PPC Search Engine said:
However, facebook and myspace are both safe if you are careful about them. Don’t put up personal information and don’t try to meet strangers over them and you should be fine.
October 20th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
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