10th Dec 2003
friendster vs. myspace
So the question these days seems to be whether to use Friendster or MySpace…
Why use either of them, you might ask? Why jump on the internet scenester bandwagon? The answer is pretty simple for me:
1) It’s fun to see a list of your friends. It makes you feel good about yourself when you can say, “Hey! Those people are my friends! Super!”
2) It’s better than filling out those obnoxious answer-five-million-questions-about-yourself emails.
3) And finally, I don’t really have anything much better to do online besides check email and of course update my journal.. which I obviously rarely do.
So back to my first question… friendster or myspace… I originally joined Friendster because people wouldn’t leave me alone or stop inviting me. It’s cute… a little slow, but it’s like a drug. You’ll wait for it whether you like it or not.
Then MySpace came along. Once again everybody and their mom kept inviting me, so I decided to check it out. It has a journal thing added into it’s features which is cool, but useless for me since I already have one.
Honestly, the only real difference I’ve found between the two is that MySpace has a plethora of naked slutty people. No joke. Some people’s pictures are borderline softcore porn.
So if you want to be friends with naked people, MySpace is the place for you. As for me I prefer Friendster because I don’t feel like trying to build my stupid list of friends up again. (:
… I like the word plethora. =D
mandypants, plethora is the worst word ever!
No way! It’s my favorite word!
Hmmmm.. Your having a debate between two web pages? (be them interactive conversaion ades or not) Now see… I got into the whole “net friend” thing a good few freekin years back now… Geez, I remember 56k being launched!! but didn’t really stay there all that long.. I mean, - Example: My first girl friend was American (i’m from the UK) I met her online.. and it all went smashingly well!! i went to Maryland.. She came too Nottingham.. 2 years we clocked up flying back and forth.. awwww, young love (16-17) but after that all fell too pieces i never truly got back into net natter.. i don;t really miss it much (i fill the need by coming on here and talking at you instead!!) So see… my argument is.. neither are really all that special!! - bob out.
That’s unfortunate about your girlfriend. Those damned silly American girls. =D I do, or at least did, have my share of “internet friends” as well. I’ve been geeked out since like 6th grade chatting on Hotline. But see Bob, the fun thing about these useless websites is that 95% of the people are my real friends. People I know/have met but lost touch with etc. I do agree that neither of them are that special though haha. Like I said.. just something to do. (:
Yo.. just wanted too sujest some listening… “Blur - ThinkTank” might take you a couple a listens to get into.. but its a funky album.. (real clean sound.. kinda warm too…. musta been done to tape and not Protools) Anyways.. C yuz.
mandy, the saddest thing of all is that I am on friendster. let’s be friends. i’ll try and find you but if i can’t, do a search for “lizzy@dr.com” as an email!
WONT YOU BE MY FRIENDSTER HELP ME ITS PATHETIC
Well, MySpace may have more slutty girls from the inland empire, but that will soon all balance out when the fuddy duddies from the OC or the squares from Santa Monica join on. The truth is, MySpace is a lot, a lot faster than Friendster, and although my friend Megan says, “its all hookers” i have met some really nice people. I mean its kind of weird to label 600,000 people as one thing. Dig around. Its fun.
B
I think myspace is way more cool.. they let you have a lot more freedom to customize your profile however you want and I think that’s how it should be.. why put limitations on creativity? And also MySpace seems to be a lot faster which is a super plus for me.. I hate waiting around for pages to load.