Facebook versus MySpace: Status Symbols?

That being said, however, Facebook has been fucking up ruthlessly with me over the past few weeks, not giving me any notifications, or giving me notifications that I've already received, or not letting me access my messages, or not giving me any updates and pretending like I'm new to the site. So that's pretty god damn annoying.

But it's STILL better than MySpace.

Facebook wins because it's cleaner, faster, and has the ability to be connected to tons of sites, including Digg and Current. I even connected my Twitter to Facebook, so almost everything I do online all converges on Facebook, something that I don't think is even possible on MySpace.

I actually hate MySpace, although I used to love it and use it a ton - back in high school... It's just so cluttered, and unintelligent people go nuts with their pages and make them loud, eye-offending pages full of annoying graphics and stupid surveys.

A rather silly article. "Dividing up online"? - At least in this situation it is by choice. It isn't like poor hispanics choose to live in small decrepid houses in bad neighborhoods. But maybe it isn't entirely by choice...

I think the discrepency is mosty attributable to the fact that 1)Facebook is somewhat newer, so white poeple want to be on it sine they got tired of Myspace years ago when the hispanics only had a dialup connection. 2) Facebook was limited to students until just a couple years ago 3) Facebook is mainly oriented towards photos/videos rather than Myspace which is more about music/art. It costs a lot more to buy camera and take pictures than it does to upload a song (again, this could be explained by connection speed as well, because it takes a long time to upload lots of pictures)

wow...just sign up w/ facebook. didnt have a chance to touch base with myspace, although read some from my friends....hmmm...better eliminate twitter..cas there are too many shorthand to read... y in the world people try so hard to succumb others their choices of communication??

Thats funny, I deleted my personal myspace a few months ago, but I use my facebook everyday. I do still use my music myspace tho..

I originally got a facebook because it seemed more legit. You have to use your real name, and prove that you went to a certain college, before you could even get an account. That made it easy to find friends. Also, that lack of anonymity (sp?) made it feel safer.

Also, since its a clean layout without customization options, you dont have to worry about excessive graphics and ridiculous misuse of html. I rmbr some pages on myspace would freeze my computer....

And then there are the apps and notifications. Its easy to keep track of whos actually updating because facebook stalks your friends for you and puts the info right there in your home news feed. The wall comments are simple. The photo albums are simple, everything is neat and organized.

For someone like me who has never lived in one place for very long (attended 3 middle schools 2 highschools and 3 colleges), its nice to have a way to keep in touch with friends and family.

I thought of you cztheday.......till we meet again.......possibly not.....Now I have to give to you that is a fine article you contributed. You did? I don't go to Facebook. Trash is trash whatever the colour. You've redeemed yourself in my books. (It is not possible for a person who even has a smattering of english to feel insulted by what I wrote above. No insults in the above paragraphs in any way, shape or form)

Unfortunately it's still an apples-to-apples argument, and it shouldn't be.

Facebook won the race in terms of friend networking: sharing information between friends. Where MySpace wins and Facebook still falls far behind is in Music and Art sharing: MySpace has a far longer time-on-site and page clickthrough than FB because it's so easy to listen to music and watch movies. Music is still awkward in FB and movies must be shared in order to view- they aren't aggregated on search engines.

If MySpace expands their music/film/art offering, they will explode back in popularity. But right now they're still fighting an uphill battle that's been over for over a year.

It's the "digital divide" (although not that great of a disparity) the old test-drive toys for their children. Obviously I have both because I'm posting it using Facebook and........i'm part white. It goes deeper than that though: it goes to classification among our society (a social ill) We judge from the outside the same way Facebook lists you social status in life. I really can't point the finger at anyone because old and young both do it.......can't we learn from the civil rights era?....not looking for strengths and weaknesses in our brothers appearance?

meh, i have both.

i only signed up for facebook becuase my mother-in-law-to-be wanted me to join. turned out a lot of my friends use FB regularly, so that was nice. and since i disabled texting on my phone to save a measly $10.00/month, it's pretty much become my texting service provider.

and yeah, when i want to leave a comment on a friend's page, it's nice to not have my computer lagged out by dozens of sparkly graphics. and having to scroll through 20 pages of quiz results they put in their profile.

myspace really did turn into the trailer park of the internet. It's full of attention starved people hiding behind their alter personas.

Facebook isn't getting too far behind as far as that goes either. All those FB apps are bringing the "class" level down a few notches.

when i first checked out facebook, it seemed really cluttered, and it still looks that way to me. i haven't been on mine in like 2 years.

you can keep myspace simple, but i still don't even use that all that much anymore. it's excellent for music though.

...and don't get me started on twitter

it comes down to aesthetics, plain and simple.

I have both a MySpace and Facebook account, but I've been using the latter more often.

Good analogy from div about Mac vs PC. You start to realize that these types of things are about class, creativity, whether you're well educated. It sounds stupid to apply that to social networking sites but from the article that seems to be exactly what is happening.

Honestly, I got rid of both my Facebook and Myspace a few months back. I kind of felt that if I was going to connect with others it had to be real rather than "poking" or commenting on a photo. And as far as meeting new people, sites like last.fm and flickr are social networks that help you meet other creative folks or people who like that same music.

For me, I find both Facebook & Myspace too complicated. Not in any technological sense but in figuring out how it'd be useful to me.

No offense but I think its more along the lines of Myspace was designed for a younger demographic and facebook was originaly designed to be a closed college networking site for people you already knew. Parents prefer the privacy of facebook and teens want to interact with older people I think the only status on facebook is status updates. I think this article is wrong. And yes I also think Myspace can be a bit cluttered, then again so is face-book in my opinion and I find twitter even worse.

Definitely status symbols.

The roar was loud when Facebook was opened up to the general public instead of remaining limited to just post secondary students. The appeal of an exclusive place for people at the same stage of life and likely at the same economic stage of life was huge, and when just about anyone could join, people did not like it. That was just act one.

Act two: myspace is not-so-cool.

Personally, my myspace account lasted all of 6 hours while my facebook account has been going strong for a few years now. I find Facebook less cluttered and visually more appealing.

I think this is one of those idiotic Mac vs. PC debates except with Facebook vs. Myspace.

It's mostly the spam and how unorganized it is what turned me off to it but I still use it for bands. I don't see where the racial aspect is coming from they just talked to dumb teenagers.

MySpace is much better for musicians. I think Facebook is just as trashy, with (in my experience) most of the same people that use MySpace, with same stupid surveys and other useless information. If it weren't for the music on MySpace I wouldn't use either.

A definite irony, that My Space, owned by Rupert Murdoch who also owns the most rascist major media in the country, is the site attracting hispanics. Methinks My Space is not for long.

Im here! on Current! Will have no time today on Myspace and Facebook, oh... and Twitter too.

"She thinks the online social world is dividing up, just like the real world"..........( because thats what we do. )

Same old same old. Nothing new under the sun. Technology only amplifies problems that exist. It doesn't find new ones.

I expect there is much more of this social hierarchy to come to the Internet.

I meant 'over 30..."--yeah, I'm still sleeping.

I think people just got tired of Myspace being poorly customized with ridiculous and unnecessary "bling". Another thing is the blatant advertising and spam. Myspace started out a lot like facebook but eventually epitomized everything that is bad about the internet. Oh, and its owned by Rupert Murdoch.

Being a midge of 30 years old, I find it a societal flaw when teenagers view technologies used by adults as out-dated, uncool, or boring. I acknowledge the business aesthetics of marketing one's wares to the disposable income bracket of the country, but when it comes as an/or inserts the thought that "one is old, or judged as old" because he or she uses a particularly social media is crooked. Maybe I'm taking this article too personally. Maybe I'm missing the theme. Maybe I should have a cup of juice to wake me up.

Just when you thought we had run out of creative ways to discriminate...