Jaymc, consider yourself "be"friended.
Also, I was talking to a friend about FB recently and she was surprised I'd joined. She said she couldn't handle another networking site so I guess that is the attitude here, at least for some people. Whomever was talking about the UK thing was right though. Only one of my UK friends has a myspace whereas I've found loads of them on FB.
― ENBB, Thursday, 28 June 2007 15:21 (sixteen years ago) link
To be honest, I think it just boils down to Facebook being along at the right time and looking quite sober and having real names and real friends on it. For most people I know my age (28), Myspace etc still had that last vestige of "weird geeky internet stuff", while Facebook is just what people do, like texting or something.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 28 June 2007 15:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Myspace etc still had that last vestige of "weird geeky internet stuff"
Are you serious? For me the perception seems to be more "lame, kid stuff".
― Ms Misery, Thursday, 28 June 2007 15:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah. I remember mentioning Friendster to a group of teenage relatives who had just become enamored of MySpace and they looked at me like, "OK, whatever, old man."
― jaymc, Thursday, 28 June 2007 15:37 (sixteen years ago) link
AMATEUR SOCIOLOGY TIME: Brother 1 is at university. He and all of his friends are on Facebook. Brother 2 is at vocational sixth form college and will not be going to university. He and all of his friends are on Myspace.
― acrobat, Thursday, 28 June 2007 15:42 (sixteen years ago) link
myspace = lame kid stuff, as well as creepy old pervert stuff
― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 28 June 2007 15:43 (sixteen years ago) link
all bases covered
― blueski, Thursday, 28 June 2007 15:46 (sixteen years ago) link
does this mean media comentators are going to start saying "facebook generation" instead of "myspace generation". i'm not sure we'll cope.
― acrobat, Thursday, 28 June 2007 15:47 (sixteen years ago) link
I find this MySpace/Facebook class divide strange because most people I know are on both. But then most people I know/hang out with went to college so duh. Seems a one way thing (if you didn't go to college perhaps you're more likely to only use MySpace but if you did go you'll jump on all and any friending-based bandwagon site in the pursuit of cool and socio-cultural synchronicity.
― blueski, Thursday, 28 June 2007 15:51 (sixteen years ago) link
it's not strange considering FB, until very very very recently, was only open to college students (and high school students by invite only)
― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:06 (sixteen years ago) link
i know i just find it strange that a lot of university-going Facebook users wouldn't also have been on MySpace.
― blueski, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:11 (sixteen years ago) link
i've never even been tempted to get a myspace account! although maybe i'm an anomaly; my younger brother spends almost all his time on it and doesn't have a facebook account. he isn't a student yet, though, so it probably figures.
p.s. befriend me, if you like! you'll never have to request LJ in a dress pix ever again!
― Just got offed, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:15 (sixteen years ago) link
when Myspazz went mental in 2005 in my experience it was kind of "alternative" people or at least people into music who were on it in the main, whereas when I first became aware of facebook later that year it seemed to be a used by people with less sub-cultural baggage.
― acrobat, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:17 (sixteen years ago) link
you'll never have to request LJ in a dress pix ever again!
nor 'for the first time ever' i trust
― blueski, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:17 (sixteen years ago) link
when I first became aware of facebook later that year it seemed to be a used by people with less sub-cultural baggage.
a massive point in facebook's favour, this
― lex pretend, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:18 (sixteen years ago) link
MySpace phase 1: US collegers MySpace phase 2: shitty bands MySpace phase 3: me and everyone i know #1 MySpace phase 4: decent bands MySpace phase 5: me getting a new account cos old one was neglected and got culled MySpace phase 6: our parents, employment agencies, newborn babies, lolcats, facebook-induced backlasheroo
― blueski, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:20 (sixteen years ago) link
I generally agree with Steve M. that most people who are just now joining Facebook are probably already on MySpace. But I think that there are definitely some people who joined Facebook when they were in college and it was still students-only but who resisted MySpace because it was too much of a random free-for-all, lacked privacy, and wasn't as directly connected to a campus community. My girlfriend's one of them.
― jaymc, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:23 (sixteen years ago) link
I generally agree with Steve M. that most people who are just now joining Facebook are probably already on MySpace
Nah, not among my (non-internet) friends, anyway. None of them have ever been on any social networking site before.
The straights have taken over the asylum.
― Alba, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:24 (sixteen years ago) link
i guess there are a lot of people i know who do/would do Facebook but never MySpace, thinking about it more. Of my friends I'd say 50% are on both and the other 50 would be Facebook only. I don't know/have any chav MySpace-only friends.
― blueski, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:27 (sixteen years ago) link
got it in one, jim
― 696, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:28 (sixteen years ago) link
For the record I would like to note that I was using MySpace long before the bands came on. Regular Friendster users made the transition pretty early and although some bands made profiles, the "music" and "band" parts of MySpace came along after it was already pretty well along. (I was also long out of college).
― Ms Misery, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:29 (sixteen years ago) link
how is this not a good thing?
xp
― lex pretend, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Scotty, what's left? Just the batteries. I can give you inpulse power in a couple minutes
...We don't HAVE a couple minutes
― 696, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:30 (sixteen years ago) link
myspace perhaps a lot more suited to people in the process of finding / developing their identity.
― acrobat, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:30 (sixteen years ago) link
scotty...SCOTTY!
Yeah, weird, I generally think of MySpace as the site for people who have never been on a social-networking site before and probably aren't interested in joining another one. Facebook would only be appealing if they enrolled in college/grad school.
― jaymc, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:30 (sixteen years ago) link
JOHNNY!
― blueski, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:38 (sixteen years ago) link
ilxors be talking about weird internet types....
― That one guy that quit, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Flipmode Squad group just isn't the same without you quitney :(
― blueski, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Girls Aloud
― That one guy that quit, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:51 (sixteen years ago) link
i took bands off because i thought my honest list of favourite artists was needlessly long - and the ones i took out were some pretty 'obvious' ones - no other reason.
i might add Althea & Donna tho - man I have all their SONG
― blueski, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:56 (sixteen years ago) link
never understand why peoples band lists are so long
― 696, Thursday, 28 June 2007 18:12 (sixteen years ago) link
I am trying to hide my nerd life from new girl I met. How long will it take?
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 28 June 2007 18:14 (sixteen years ago) link
step one: not knowing my last name
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 28 June 2007 18:15 (sixteen years ago) link
block her.
― That one guy that quit, Thursday, 28 June 2007 18:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Make sure she never hears of ILX
― Ms Misery, Thursday, 28 June 2007 18:16 (sixteen years ago) link
I hope you didn't tell her your name was Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, because there are only like 3 of those on the googleable internet
― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 28 June 2007 18:30 (sixteen years ago) link
We don't know each other's last names.
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 28 June 2007 18:36 (sixteen years ago) link
^^ thats always the best way:)
― 696, Thursday, 28 June 2007 18:37 (sixteen years ago) link
people's band lists are so long because they want to cast the most comprehensive possible net in which to snare gurls people using band names as search terms
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 28 June 2007 18:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Or because they're extremely anal (see: my band's MySpace page).
― jaymc, Thursday, 28 June 2007 18:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Or record-collecting music nerds.
― Ms Misery, Thursday, 28 June 2007 18:52 (sixteen years ago) link
oh, it gets you sex? anyone mind if i copy and paste theirs?
― 696, Thursday, 28 June 2007 19:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Or autopopulated their list
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 28 June 2007 19:06 (sixteen years ago) link
i faked my list.
an ilxor knows someone i knew irl, it's wild.
― That one guy that quit, Thursday, 28 June 2007 19:08 (sixteen years ago) link
w.r.t. f-book group 'I Love Music':
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UH-OH
― Just got offed, Thursday, 28 June 2007 20:02 (sixteen years ago) link
try f-book group "i love music sandbox", perhaps?
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Thursday, 28 June 2007 20:11 (sixteen years ago) link
can't believe there's no ornaldo bloomps for presidnetn group
― That one guy that quit, Thursday, 28 June 2007 20:49 (sixteen years ago) link
i can. some memes go far enough.
― Just got offed, Thursday, 28 June 2007 20:54 (sixteen years ago) link
http://bani.anime.net/o_rly.jpg
― That one guy that quit, Thursday, 28 June 2007 20:58 (sixteen years ago) link