facebook is past its prime, right?

[slayer202]

I bet if you put up a poll, most people would rather you died than facebook

 

[Dear Summer]

Originally posted by: drum

Originally posted by: Kntx
Maybe it was your social life that peaked in 2006

Zing!
quick wit 1, OP 0!

not going to lie
you're right about that
it peaked during that time.. been out of college now and no one contacts me anymore

 

[RichieZ]

Originally posted by: krylon

Originally posted by: RichieZ
RE #1: Facebook already did this, look up haystack. Replaced an expensive CDN and proprietary storage hardware with commodity hardware.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Haystack/20160326047

And beer!

funny.

but for people who are interested:
click here

PS: No i do not work for FB

 

[Gooberlx2]

I recently joined facebook and found a lot of my friends on it. It's a helluva lot cleaner than myspace, you don't typically get random invites from strangers, no god awful, poorly coded, high contrast, flashing profile pages with terrible music, etc...

Leave myspace for the attention whores, teenie-boppers and pedo-bears.

I also like that there's a pidgin plugin that allows me to chat without having the browser open.

 

[meltdown75]

Nope

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

For adults at least, Facebook is growing in a HUGE fashion, and Myspace has all but ceased to exist.

 

[QueBert]

Myspace is only as shitty as the profiles you visit. When I had a profile on there, the people on my friends lists didn't have pages that had blinking text and loud music with tons of animated gifs. Myspace doesn't force you to see any profiles you don't want to. So you won't see any of the "shit" unless you do it yourself. And if you set your options right, you'll more than likely never get a random friend request.

Myspace lets you create a profile, one that reflects you. FB lets you edit some text. MS has a lot of snotty nosed teenage punks, FB has a lot of older douches with superiority conplexes. Neither are really desirable if you ask me. And since both are shitty rip offs of a shitty site called Friendster, I suppose Friendster > *

 

[Ns1]

Originally posted by: QueBert
text

No matter where you move, you'll never shake your 909'er roots

=P

//edit

Everyone I know who did use facebook still does. I never hear the word myspace except on the internet.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: QueBert
When I used them (I stopped both) I used the iPhone app so both looked identical interface wise. I find the default [only] layout for FB to be boring and super ugly. Where MS is typically ugly, but can look nice, and most of all, varies. Originally is a must to me, I couldn't imagine if every web site looked exactly the same. At the core they do the same shit. And if you polish a turd, it's still a turd.

Roflcopter @ "super ugly"

If ugly was a superpower, Rosie O'Donnell would own our asses.

 

[QueBert]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: QueBert
When I used them (I stopped both) I used the iPhone app so both looked identical interface wise. I find the default [only] layout for FB to be boring and super ugly. Where MS is typically ugly, but can look nice, and most of all, varies. Originally is a must to me, I couldn't imagine if every web site looked exactly the same. At the core they do the same shit. And if you polish a turd, it's still a turd.

Roflcopter @ "super ugly"

If ugly was a superpower, Rosie O'Donnell would own our asses.

It is, it reminds me of a web template in an old HTML editor I use to use. I can't recall the name but it was ages ago (10 years or so) Facebook is plain, ugly, and looks like whoever made it was either lazy, or lacked the skills to make a nice looking site.

"that's because it's a minimalist look!" - been told this. Looks like a piss poor attempt at web 2.0 to me. I'm not a fan of cookie cutter shit, especially when the has no style what-so-ever. *shrug*

 

[Ns1]

Originally posted by: QueBert
"that's because it's a minimalist look!" - been told this. Looks like a piss poor attempt at web 2.0 to me. I'm not a fan of cookie cutter shit, especially when the has no style what-so-ever. *shrug*

You don't like it, but it is CLEAR that millions upon millions of americans prefer it. That minimalist fast-to-load design is why FB > MS

Conformity > you

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: QueBert
It is, it reminds me of a web template in an old HTML editor I use to use. I can't recall the name but it was ages ago (10 years or so) Facebook is plain, ugly, and looks like whoever made it was either lazy, or lacked the skills to make a nice looking site.

"that's because it's a minimalist look!" - been told this. Looks like a piss poor attempt at web 2.0 to me. I'm not a fan of cookie cutter shit, especially when the has no style what-so-ever. *shrug*

I'm sorry that you have poor taste. Enjoy your myspace templates.

 

[Liberator21]

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
twitter should die

waiting for the twitpocalypse myself

 

[cHeeZeFacTory]

but 6 million+ has already signed up for their 'usernames' things

 

[James Bond]

I use it way more than I did when it was starting up. And I'm out of college now, too.

 

[DrPizza]

Some time this evening when I get home, I'll log into facebook. I'm sure I'll be greeted with 40 quizzes that people took. "I took the 'what color am I quiz' and the result is RED!" "I took the 'Which teletubby are you?' quiz, and I'm..."

I sincerely wish I could just block seeing ALL such quizzes. If that happened, facebook would be awesome again. But, to see what anyone's up to, I have to wade through pages of crap. I did, however, love my step-niece-in-law's (holy roller family, I believe) answer on the "what would Jesus think of you" quiz. Sadly, I can't find that quiz any more, but her results were a particular "c" word that I don't use in person, or online.

 

[HannibalX]

Somehow I knew this thread would be by someone with less than a year on the forum.

 

[QueBert]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: QueBert
It is, it reminds me of a web template in an old HTML editor I use to use. I can't recall the name but it was ages ago (10 years or so) Facebook is plain, ugly, and looks like whoever made it was either lazy, or lacked the skills to make a nice looking site.

"that's because it's a minimalist look!" - been told this. Looks like a piss poor attempt at web 2.0 to me. I'm not a fan of cookie cutter shit, especially when the has no style what-so-ever. *shrug*

I'm sorry that you have poor taste. Enjoy your myspace templates.

Um, Myspace fully supports CSS. If you have even a bit of skills you could create a profile layout that looks nothing at all like the standard layout. In fact, since you have full control over the CSS coding, you could create anything you wanted. Sure there default templates suck ass, but at least they give you the option to spice it up. FB could at least offer my the option to code my own profile layout. And just have a feature where the people who want to see the plain, ugly, boring web 2.0 lite template could disable custom profiles and just see my info.

 

[QueBert]

Originally posted by: Ns1

Originally posted by: QueBert
"that's because it's a minimalist look!" - been told this. Looks like a piss poor attempt at web 2.0 to me. I'm not a fan of cookie cutter shit, especially when the has no style what-so-ever. *shrug*

You don't like it, but it is CLEAR that millions upon millions of americans prefer it. That minimalist fast-to-load design is why FB > MS

Conformity > you

the bulk of Facebooks growth is outside of the US. MS still dominates FB in the US So apparently in the good ole' US of A, FB isn't preferred. I don't give a shit about what the rest of the world does, or likes

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: QueBert

Originally posted by: Ns1

Originally posted by: QueBert
"that's because it's a minimalist look!" - been told this. Looks like a piss poor attempt at web 2.0 to me. I'm not a fan of cookie cutter shit, especially when the has no style what-so-ever. *shrug*

You don't like it, but it is CLEAR that millions upon millions of americans prefer it. That minimalist fast-to-load design is why FB > MS

Conformity > you

MS still dominates FB in the US So apparently in the good ole' US of A, FB isn't preferred. I don't give a shit about what the rest of the world does, or likes

WRONG.

link

 

[Ns1]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: QueBert

MS still dominates FB in the US So apparently in the good ole' US of A, FB isn't preferred. I don't give a shit about what the rest of the world does, or likes

WRONG.

link

LOL

A quick poll of everybody I work with and all of my college associates tells me that MS is saying hello to friendster in social network hell

 

[IGBT]

no.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Actually it's coolness factor peaked in 2006, but usage is still going up.

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: QueBert

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: QueBert
It is, it reminds me of a web template in an old HTML editor I use to use. I can't recall the name but it was ages ago (10 years or so) Facebook is plain, ugly, and looks like whoever made it was either lazy, or lacked the skills to make a nice looking site.

"that's because it's a minimalist look!" - been told this. Looks like a piss poor attempt at web 2.0 to me. I'm not a fan of cookie cutter shit, especially when the has no style what-so-ever. *shrug*

I'm sorry that you have poor taste. Enjoy your myspace templates.

Um, Myspace fully supports CSS. If you have even a bit of skills you could create a profile layout that looks nothing at all like the standard layout. In fact, since you have full control over the CSS coding, you could create anything you wanted. Sure there default templates suck ass, but at least they give you the option to spice it up. FB could at least offer my the option to code my own profile layout. And just have a feature where the people who want to see the plain, ugly, boring web 2.0 lite template could disable custom profiles and just see my info.

I don't give a fuck about my profile, I'm not looking at it. I have to look at everyone else's assed up profile with lady gaga in the background.

No thanks. Besides, my friends all use facebook, so it doesn't even matter.

 

[thescreensavers]

Originally posted by: CRXican
I left myspace long ago for Facebook. All my friends talk about is Facebook and I no longer hear of Myspace.

Same for me. Myspace has gone down.