LooseSuits

I don't use Facebook much anymore, but I think that's got more to do with having graduated from university than with the Apps.

I do agree that Facebook becoming Jesus is an interesting and strange development, but it does have first-mover status on the API which means this won't exactly make it the unJesus to observers. If anything, MySpace's API will probably be seen as validation that Facebook really is Jesus and that MySpace is, at best, an apostle.

I really wish Facebook hadn't released that API for their site. I take that back, I mean, it's great that people can develop mini applications but the majority of what people create are utterly useless and irritating. If anything, I think Facebook should have screened applicants for developing Applications. My Facebook profile has maybe a couple of things that are for letting people know what I'm up to (i.e. bookshelf, wordpress). All of these Superduperpoke apps and the like are an eyesore.

MySpace's rendition will probably not be any different. If anything, it'll make MySpace even more intolerable. The only thing I could see good about it is that since it can access the core MySpace resources such as profile information, friends, etc, is that you could maybe use it to more easily put that information on an overlay template (which I thought was utterly useless since it didn't show the dynamic content anyway).

One person's comment in this post said it best:

Facebook has moved away from its “core”. It used to be clean and simple but now it is cluttered with junk (although not as bad as Myspace). There is a need for a simple Social Network that does simple things:

• 1. Connect friends
• 2. Share content (Pictures, Videos, Music)
• 3. Blog (Maybe)
• 4. Maintains its cleanliness

I am under the impression that there are two groups of Facebook users. While the API and applications are used by one group I believe the core group of Facebook users are still intact, it's just that they aren't using applications to the extreme.

More on this later.

Luckily, Michael, is that you don't have to be subjected to the crazy application spam unless the person is your friend. If your friend is doing it, you either like it and contribute to it, don't like it and tolerate it or tell them it's just stupid.

You see that's what I'm getting at. I don't really get that spam unless you friend people who are into that sorta stuff. And I think that's where the divide is in Facebook.

Just so you guys know. I started hating Facebook before it became cool to hate Facebook.

It would have been so much better if there was a setting that just shuts off the damn app invitations.

Good observation indeed Kamigoroshi. It is now Internet cool to hate Facebook. Oh if they only knew the irony.

It's not the fact that people hate Facebook, it's the fact that people hate the Facebook hype along with it not being what it used to be. People left Myspace for a reason and now Facebook is finding that to gain the numbers Myspace has they have to do some Myspace type things.

They are all the same to me, you just go there to check your messages, comments and view some pictures.

I like Facebook a lot, even after all the new apps they added, though I don't use them much other than the Flickr app. I just cancelled my Myspace account this week actually. It was just collecting dust.

They are all the same to me, you just go there to check your messages, comments and view some pictures.

Indeed. That's what I do with my MySpace & Facebook accounts. I don't even really check friends' comments page. I really don't know the other people they know so I'm not really caring about that part. I go and see if I got a message, they posted a good note/bulletin, new pictures. I ignore the spam and just look at what I want to see.

I think it's a generation thing. Some old people with MySpace accounts still update MySpace. They go there for the people who are there. It's kind of like the opposite of Buddism.

When people see a website, they do not care about how they get there, the simply care about the end result.

Doesn't MySpace have more pageviews because it takes about 4 pages just to accept a friend request?

I joined Facebook because it wasn't myspace. However apart from the cleaner design it is slowly turning into myspace so I am going there less and less. I still don't like myspace either but this is an interesting move.

Regarding the 4x the page views, I would guess that's for two reasons. 1) myspace forces you to refresh the page a dozen times to do anything, and 2) myspace is indexed in search engines.

If facebook would open it's pages to be viewable by anyone (optionally of course) I would be more inclined to use it.