facebook > myspace
rootlesscosmo
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I know we've had this discussion before.I'm sorry but it's just better.Waaaaaay cleaner/more user friendly interface.OK so you can't personalize the page to the same extent, e.g. allover Yves St Laurent print background with flashing bling lights. But nor are you subject to full-graphic pages that take 5 minutes to download and immediately blare the person's annoying choice of music for the whole office to hear.Me and Haz n' em are on facebook.I feel like that's reason enough to get up. 
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her response:
"what's friendster?"
not sure if that means i am old, she is young, or all that social networking is just for the birds.
it's definitely generational. you get on whatever social networking site is hot at the time, and another one comes on to capture the next round of folks.
i only got on facebook because I went back to school in my mid-20's and was on a small campus with a lot of undergrad-grad interaction so it made sense to get on the site. I have definitely found that I prefer it to myspace.
no doubt. I stayed using facebook for holleration purposes while at school.
God I wish they had this when I went to school.
Seriously. It's not even a "game" anymore. Kids nowadays have it so easy.
I don't recognize a struttin' soul on there.
Discuss.
http://onthemedia.org/episodes/2007/08/03/segments/83340
no offense - but are you 15? Seriously curious.
oh yeah, hot stuff?
let's explore together.
AIM me.
Also the copyright-related side of Facebook is a bit dodgy. Basically they own the rights to any picture you have on their site. Some friends of mine (art students, aspiring designers) put loads of graphic work on there, but took it down again fast when they learnt that Facebook can basically use it for whatever they want as long as it??s on there.
Not saying they automatically WILL do it, but they CAN, appearantly.
Still though I kinda want to sign up for it, seems like I could get in touch with a lot of people I??ve lost contact info for... hmmm, we??ll see.
- J
Myspace is the same way with music. I bet photobucket is the same with pictures too.
yup. if there is a girl you're interested in, for merely sexual purposes, you can look her up on facebook and see if she's down for "random play" if she isn't she most likely won't list that as your relational instrests. just cause i girl doesn't list something doesn't mean that she isn't into it...that's something that people get confused about, or attempt to lead people on about, that their profile is an extension of their character. either way...it's an easy way to get boootay.
Innanet
i know i dont need more small-talk-bullshit in my life.
Yet you post at Soulstrut.
Sayin!
Though, in all fairness, I always wonder if prospective students do the same with me.
either dont list your real name/email address or don't put up pictures of you hitting a bong or snorting coke off a hooker's chest
Do you think they check ratemyprofessor.com?
Doh! Too late.
For real though, this salty dude (in another dept) tried to CB my current appointment by talking to my chair and trying to raise some bullshit written about me on someone else's blog. Luckily, my chair knew this guy was a herb and ignored him.
myspace is very poorly coded but everyone i know is on it.
There's gotta be a story behind this...
Ha, well, I'm not sure who this is. I haven't had a student who's sat in my front row twice yet.
In all seriousness, this is why I never bother to check ratemyprofessors. The anonymous posting system removes any semblance of accountability of opinions (not to mention basic civility) and you get a lot of wholly irrelevant shit that has nothing I can use to improve my teaching standards. In a sense, some of the negative reviews are helpful but frankly, students seem to go out of their way to be complete assholes instead of offering constructive criticism. If I took the same approach in grading their work, I'd probably piss a few students off and leave others in tears.
Note: on my year end evals - which are also anonymous - I get far more productive notes. The only people who post to ratemyprofessor are folks who seem to have a real axe to grind. Fuck them. It's nothing more than a rumor mill for bored and/or disgruntled students.
That just sounds creepy.