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Post by gpduke on Apr 18, 2007 3:56:06 GMT -4
Seems like facebook's news feed is REALLY slow and not really complete lately. I suppose it's do to the increased usage with the VT tragedy.
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Post by Mega248 on Jun 2, 2007 23:50:14 GMT -4
Does anyone else think Facebook has added way too many features in the last week or two? I mean, Facebook is still miles ahead of MySpace, but it's almost like they want to be more like MySpace.
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Post by halo19 on Jun 3, 2007 0:10:57 GMT -4
I'll post here with a dissenting opinion. Myspace is not without its flaws, but I just find it more interesting most of the time. I basically do my best to ignore messages & requests from the sex bots though, one thing Facebook has going in its favor.
But I prefer the fact that you could put music on the pages & the pseudo intellect percentage is much lower.
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Post by gpduke on Jun 3, 2007 0:15:45 GMT -4
Does anyone else think Facebook has added way too many features in the last week or two? I mean, Facebook is still miles ahead of MySpace, but it's almost like they want to be more like MySpace. Yeah, maybe the audio program would have been enough. And honestly, I could do without it. But everytime I sign on there is a list of "_____ Added The ______ Application" and they're always different and so many...It's a bit ridiculous.
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Post by mtm4319 on Jun 3, 2007 10:41:13 GMT -4
I agree that they should have been stricter with what programs they approve for adding. At first I thought they'd done a great job, but then I realized just how many new programs out there, quite a few of which are pretty useless.
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Post by Mega248 on Jun 3, 2007 16:44:46 GMT -4
The "Trazkor" device, which allows users to see who's been viewing your profile, is what needs to go most. I know it's easy enough to avoid that application entirely, but there's no need to encourage stalking via Facebook, which is the only thing that will come out of keeping Trakzor around.
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Post by gpduke on Jun 8, 2007 1:27:37 GMT -4
There's a top friends application? LOLOLOL!! CHILLIN WITH MY PEEPS
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Post by a Nick O! on Jun 8, 2007 4:47:07 GMT -4
Those peeps looked like flower petals to me until I read the caption. Peeps is more amusing, but flower petals would've been more artistically interesting.
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Post by gpduke on Jun 10, 2007 4:42:07 GMT -4
I tried to add the "top friends" application. I haven't added any yet, but it said it wasn't made by facebook so I didn't go any further.
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Post by Mega248 on Jun 10, 2007 20:49:07 GMT -4
The "Trazkor" device, which allows users to see who's been viewing your profile, is what needs to go most. I know it's easy enough to avoid that application entirely, but there's no need to encourage stalking via Facebook, which is the only thing that will come out of keeping Trakzor around. Scratch that, the friend ranking feature needs to go even more. But the good news is that when I logged in earlier today, I was greeted with "4 of your friends have removed the top friends application" at the top of my news feed.
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Post by gpduke on Jun 10, 2007 20:50:42 GMT -4
The "Trazkor" device, which allows users to see who's been viewing your profile, is what needs to go most. I know it's easy enough to avoid that application entirely, but there's no need to encourage stalking via Facebook, which is the only thing that will come out of keeping Trakzor around. Scratch that, the friend ranking feature needs to go even more. But the good news is that when I logged in earlier today, I was greeted with "4 of your friends have removed the top friends application" at the top of my news feed. Well 19 of my friends have added it.
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Post by gpduke on Jun 10, 2007 21:28:43 GMT -4
Well if I count in my friends, then 20 friend have added it. I'm suprised I did.
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Post by gpduke on Jun 11, 2007 21:11:13 GMT -4
Updated: 51 of your friends added the Top Friends application. 8:40pm
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Post by mtm4319 on Jul 2, 2007 22:40:43 GMT -4
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Post by gpduke on Jul 9, 2007 3:35:09 GMT -4
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Post by gpduke on Jul 10, 2007 1:55:47 GMT -4
Holy crap graffiti is fun.
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Post by gpduke on Jul 10, 2007 2:22:57 GMT -4
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Post by gpduke on Jul 12, 2007 19:48:53 GMT -4
I was wondering how long it would take Tom:
Latest Update: Jul 12, 3:00 pm PDT
hey some of you may have seen the mood/status thing. pretty cool! i learned dane cook is eating eggs and oatmeal! we're going to take it offline for a bit to fine tune it. it'll be back in a few hours!
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Post by poohbaer8 on Jul 13, 2007 22:30:48 GMT -4
Never heard of either one.
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Post by Pipa on Jul 13, 2007 23:08:21 GMT -4
Holy crap graffiti is fun. Holy crap graffiti has been around forever in Bebo.
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Post by gpduke on Jul 14, 2007 0:01:06 GMT -4
Holy crap graffiti is fun. Holy crap graffiti has been around forever in Bebo. Yeah because the application additions became existent all of 5 weeks ago.
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Post by Pipa on Jul 14, 2007 11:37:39 GMT -4
That's it? I thought it was longer.
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Post by Jeffster on Jul 14, 2007 17:56:20 GMT -4
The one time I tried using facebook, it didnt make any sense to me at all.
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Post by gpduke on Jul 15, 2007 0:38:37 GMT -4
A girl drew something on my graffiti wall that referenced something that happened my junior year...I responded "thnks fr th mmrs." I wonder if she'll get it?
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Post by gpduke on Jul 29, 2007 0:43:30 GMT -4
Great, can't wait for the little kids to help crash the site.
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Post by gpduke on Aug 3, 2007 3:37:15 GMT -4
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Post by gpduke on Aug 10, 2007 1:52:18 GMT -4
Why is it when I "compare people" it shows me winning and ranked 2nd and so on in certain categories, yet on my profile where the application is it says "#2 most helpful" "#7 most powerful" ?
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Post by blahblahblah on Aug 10, 2007 5:15:54 GMT -4
Facebook has taken a huge role in helping me procrastinate and distracting me from studying for my finals in the last several days.
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Post by a Nick O! on Aug 11, 2007 3:58:40 GMT -4
Facebook has taken a huge role in helping me procrastinate and distracting me from studying for my finals in the last several days. Well, as long as you feel good about it...
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Post by gpduke on Aug 11, 2007 22:42:53 GMT -4
tech.msn.com/news/article.aspx?cp-documentid=5183930>1=10348Class War: MySpace vs. Facebook A flurry of recent articles have observed that young people are leaving MySpace for Facebook in droves, setting off speculation that MySpace is becoming the latest victim of fickle teens following the hot new thing. Not so, says University of California, Berkeley, researcher Danah Boyd. Not all teens are leaving MySpace, she wrote in a recent essay--instead, they're splitting up along class lines. Boyd confirms what teens in any high school across the country already know: Affluent kids from educated, well-to-do families have been fleeing MySpace for Facebook since it opened registration to the general public in September, while working-class kids still flock to MySpace. That could have big implications for advertisers targeting the coveted teenaged population online, three-quarters of whom have a profile on a social network. Both sites have been powerhouses for advertisers because of their huge, wide-reaching audiences, says Robin Neifield, chief executive of interactive marketing agency NetPlus Marketing. That strategy could change if the sites become more like the niche social networks popping up across the Web for groups of like-minded people from similar backgrounds. Boyd's essay came amid speculation about the future of the social network giants. Despite the fact that MySpace still gets more than twice as many unique visitors as Facebook, it's littered with postings announcing that users, often teens, are switching to its rival. The number of Facebook visitors ages 12 to 17 jumped 149% over the past year, while MySpace lost 27% of teens, according to ComScore Media Metrix. Rupert Murdoch, whose News Corp.owns MySpace, even lamented in an interview that he was losing readers to Facebook. News Corp. is rumored to be considering swapping MySpace for a 25% stake in Yahoo!. Estimated ad revenue for 2007 calendar year for Facebook is $125 million, $525 million for MySpace, according to research firm eMarketer. Together, the two account for 72% of all online advertising on social networks. There's a reason why the "goody-two-shoes, jocks, athletes or other 'good' kids" are going to Facebook, says Boyd, who studies social networks and youth culture and made her observations based on formal interviews with 90 teens, informal interviews with hundreds more, and the perusal of tens of thousands of teens' online profiles. Facebook launched in 2004 as a site for Harvard students. Gradually, it opened up to other college students, then to high school kids if a college student invited them. "Facebook is what the college kids did. Not surprisingly, college-bound high schoolers desperately wanted in," Boyd writes. MySpace, meanwhile, is the "cool working-class thing" for high school students getting a job after graduation rather than heading to the Ivy League, Boyd writes. Constant local news stories on predators targeting kids on MySpace further alienated the "good kids," she says. Both companies declined to comment on Boyd's essay. Her analysis could help marketers figure out which sites to target--help she says they desperately need. "Many of the advertisers that I have met are extremely savvy about offline marketing but complete fools when it comes to online marketing," ignorant of who visits Web sites and why, Boyd wrote in an e-mail interview with Forbes. Paying attention to demographics could help. Hot Topic should target MySpace, for example, while J. Crew should focus on Facebook. "As an advertiser, in my opinion, Facebook users are more qualified to convert and more apt to buy a shirt, so I would go there before MySpace," says Josh Mohrer, director of retail for BustedTees, an online purveyor of hipster clothes and sometime Facebook advertiser. Facebook can lure advertisers with its affluence, says Bill Tancer, general manager of global research at Hitwise, an online marketing analysis firm. His data backs up Boyd's conclusions that Facebook users are richer than those on MySpace. Still, MySpace attracts so many more viewers that "there's no way marketers are going to leave," he says. NetPlus chief Neifield says she's not paying too much attention to Boyd's observations. Advertisers should look beyond demographics when placing ads and instead analyze online behavior like who visited other sites with similar content, who downloaded what or who clicked on which ads, she says. "It's not very often these days that we buy based on demographics alone."
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