Comments on: MySpace vs. Facebook: Who Cares?

By: katie

katie — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:53:56 +0000

the problem comes when you go to a school like i do, which blocks myspace on campus and not facebook, which they can use better to check up on you.

By: davidicus

davidicus — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:12:09 +0000

i’m not joining anything that lets users muck with the HTML. there’s too much ugly in this world already.

By: Bill C

Bill C — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 23:04:07 +0000

Facebook and Myspace suck really bad. See you on VIRB (far better) in about 6 months.

By: Ken

Ken — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 14:08:03 +0000

Whether or not we believe her results to be valid or substantively important, I think this episode represents a pretty amazing evolution in “peer review.” I mean, how many tenured faculty can we think of that wouldn’t give their eye teeth to have had an audience like danah’s over their entire lives? While I doubt this will ever become commonplace for social science, it does seem to move us into a new possibility space.

By: Derek

Derek — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:53:29 +0000

‘care’ might be the wrong word. I think we certainly need to be aware of trends and take time to look beneath the surface, like a fish who is surrounded by water, do they know water exists? We are a victim of our own biases at times (usually), as long as we are not creating trends out of our own prejudices. Beside, it gives anecdotes for conference speakers . . .

By: davidicus

davidicus — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 20:43:42 +0000

unfair. facebook was college-only until recently. might be looking for meaning that isn’t there.

By: dnorman

dnorman — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:43:37 +0000

well, then in that case it’s official: they’re both irrelevant. all hail twitter!

By: brandon

brandon — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:28:47 +0000

how dare you say “who cares”?!? This is the ultimate showdown of social networking sites!!

By: Alec Couros

Alec Couros — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:14:03 +0000

Well I’d agree that skew is partially determined by the community, but I also believe design has much to do with what groups congregate to certain places. There has been some work in the area of “social affordances”, design and social class. Design certainly plays a part.

By: Chris Garrett

Chris Garrett — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:13:24 +0000

I think it will but from what I am seeing many of the new users are coming from linkedin and other company/sales/client contacts (including myself), so business people are making up a large part of the growth so if anything it could well diverge even further from myspace?