Social Networking Sites

[Spooner]

was thinking about this the other day for some reason

i think the evolution of the "social networking" sites went like this

ClassMates > Friendster > Myspace > Facebook

with each website doing it much better than the last

I wonder what's next? Or are we going to constantly have spinoff-type sites like Twitter and blogspot

 

[TruePaige]

You left out a lot of important phases, including international influences like Orkut.

 

[Spooner]

which pieces did I leave out?

 

[Kaido]

I still don't have a MySpace or Facebook account. Anandtech sucks up way more time than I even want to be online lol.

 

[CrazyLazy]

Twitter and blogspot are not spin offs of social networks at all.

 

[Spooner]

Originally posted by: CrazyLazy
Twitter and blogspot are not spin offs of social networks at all.

my point being that you can do either as part of facebook, where those sites go deeper into a particular fad like "status" updates or blogging

 

[ultimatebob]

You forgot Xanga, too... it seems to be popular with Christian conservatives for some reason (shrug).

 

[TruePaige]

Originally posted by: Spooner
which pieces did I leave out?

Well JJ.am, Stickam, Hi5 happened in the series of events as well.

Blogging was around before social networking sites got big, so I don't know how you can call blogspot a "spin off".

Plus you failed to draw any real conclusions, so I don't know what is to say really.

I guess if you are asking what is next you can look at the "niche"-network fad that has already begun and the stabilization of social networking platforms.

 

[nobody554]

Originally posted by: TruePaige

Originally posted by: Spooner
which pieces did I leave out?

Well JJ.am, Stickam, Hi5 happened in the series of events as well.

Blogging was around before social networking sites got big, so I don't know how you can call blogspot a "spin off".

Plus you failed to draw any real conclusions, so I don't know what is to say really.

I guess if you are asking what is next you can look at the "niche"-network fad that has already begun and the stabilization of social networking platforms.

Well, even blogging has evolved to different sites as I've gone through high school / college.

Beginning of high school - LiveJournal
Middle of high school - Xanga
Douchebag "Activities Director" getting into everyone's personal business - End of Xanga
College - Facebook notes

Of course, blogspot has been around forever and wordpress is used in many places now. It just depends what you enjoy working with and how much control you want to have in the design and feel.

 

[Fritzo]

I remember back in the early 90's my wife thought I was an uber geek/nerd for posting things on a bulletin board, and then actually using CHAT to type a coversation to someone. Now you're considered an idiot if you don't know how to communicate like this

I'm always 10 years ahead of the curve.

 

[Braveheart]

Facebook will be the winner for a while, and didn't you miss Xanga? i was thinking it would be Classmantes > Friendster > Xanga > live spaces > MySpace > Facebook > twitter

 

[Braveheart]

Originally posted by: ultimatebob
You forgot Xanga, too... it seems to be popular with Christian conservatives for some reason (shrug).

actually me and all my Christian conservative homeschool friends have gone to facebook...

 

[AstroManLuca]

Originally posted by: ultimatebob
You forgot Xanga, too... it seems to be popular with Christian conservatives for some reason (shrug).

I thought it was for people too retarded even for Myspace (they actually exist).

 

[ultimatebob]

Originally posted by: AstroManLuca

Originally posted by: ultimatebob
You forgot Xanga, too... it seems to be popular with Christian conservatives for some reason (shrug).

I thought it was for people too retarded even for Myspace (they actually exist).

Yeah... Myspace still has some of the worst designed custom pages I've ever seen, though. Hell, I've seen Geocities pages back in 1997 filled with <BLINK> tags and animated .GIF's that still look better than those customized Myspace pages.

 

[ViviTheMage]

you missed facethejury

place was huge back in teh day.