Comments on: top ten reasons why myspace is better than facebook http://www.cheezhead.com/2007/02/12/top-ten-myspace/ Insight and opinion from the world of employment. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:01:22 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Mike P. http://www.cheezhead.com/2007/02/12/top-ten-myspace/comment-page-1/#comment-120002 Mike P. Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:37:08 +0000 http://www.cheezhead.com/2007/02/12/top-ten-myspace/#comment-120002 Obviously, the person who wrote this article in 2007 could not have predicted that Facebook was going to be the leader, however I have to agree with the writer, Myspace is better than Facebook, however, not for any of the reasons he listed. Traffic, brand, unique URLS are all irrelevant when deciding the quality of a website. Facebook is clean, faster, clean written, however it is not easy to find "new" people using Facebook. I am not a fan of their searching capabilities. Where Myspace crushes Facebook is their ability to search for new users who are not your friends, and not limited to a particular network. The browse feature is hands down superior than Facebook's. I also like the ability to customize a profile, and the freedom to use html and css is quite powerful, if you know how to use it right. You can even use html to customize your own comments. I think Myspace can come back, if they were to redesign their website. Instead of competing against Facebook with applications, they should have redesigned their site so that it is faster and cleaner, only allow webmasters to redesign their profile (have a webmaster provide proof that he owns a website by validating an email address that is not an edu, hotmail, yahoo, gmail, etc), and provide a clean profile look for those who are not webmasters. Myspace has the potential to compete against Facebook, but I feel they are going to milk it for awhile, and remain a cash cow, until their user base has fizzled completely. Obviously, the person who wrote this article in 2007 could not have predicted that Facebook was going to be the leader, however I have to agree with the writer, Myspace is better than Facebook, however, not for any of the reasons he listed. Traffic, brand, unique URLS are all irrelevant when deciding the quality of a website. Facebook is clean, faster, clean written, however it is not easy to find “new” people using Facebook. I am not a fan of their searching capabilities.

Where Myspace crushes Facebook is their ability to search for new users who are not your friends, and not limited to a particular network. The browse feature is hands down superior than Facebook’s. I also like the ability to customize a profile, and the freedom to use html and css is quite powerful, if you know how to use it right. You can even use html to customize your own comments.

I think Myspace can come back, if they were to redesign their website. Instead of competing against Facebook with applications, they should have redesigned their site so that it is faster and cleaner, only allow webmasters to redesign their profile (have a webmaster provide proof that he owns a website by validating an email address that is not an edu, hotmail, yahoo, gmail, etc), and provide a clean profile look for those who are not webmasters.

Myspace has the potential to compete against Facebook, but I feel they are going to milk it for awhile, and remain a cash cow, until their user base has fizzled completely.

]]> By: Erica http://www.cheezhead.com/2007/02/12/top-ten-myspace/comment-page-1/#comment-119917 Erica Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:11:58 +0000 http://www.cheezhead.com/2007/02/12/top-ten-myspace/#comment-119917 Myspace the innovator not the duplicator unlike facebook, hands down myspace is the winner and will always be on top! Myspace the innovator not the duplicator unlike facebook, hands down myspace is the winner and will always be on top!

]]> By: anonymous http://www.cheezhead.com/2007/02/12/top-ten-myspace/comment-page-1/#comment-118286 anonymous Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:38:55 +0000 http://www.cheezhead.com/2007/02/12/top-ten-myspace/#comment-118286 Boy i bet you're regretting this article with each passing day... especially after this weekend and the arrival of 'unique urls' to facebook... as if it really matters. Now that music has properly arrived on facebook, i can't see how Myspace can claim higher ground anywhere.. In reality facebook is more about connecting and sharing with people you know whereas Myspace is still very much about self-promotion... with all its attendant Spam, fake profiles, naked advertising pitches (be a fan! be a fan!) and an user base that is mainly American... Facebook is for the moment the more global choice and as such will continue to grow from that perception. Boy i bet you’re regretting this article with each passing day… especially after this weekend and the arrival of ‘unique urls’ to facebook… as if it really matters. Now that music has properly arrived on facebook, i can’t see how Myspace can claim higher ground anywhere.. In reality facebook is more about connecting and sharing with people you know whereas Myspace is still very much about self-promotion… with all its attendant Spam, fake profiles, naked advertising pitches (be a fan! be a fan!) and an user base that is mainly American… Facebook is for the moment the more global choice and as such will continue to grow from that perception.

]]> By: T Diggs http://www.cheezhead.com/2007/02/12/top-ten-myspace/comment-page-1/#comment-117450 T Diggs Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:10:29 +0000 http://www.cheezhead.com/2007/02/12/top-ten-myspace/#comment-117450 Myspace is still much better- dont understand the craze with facebook. Unique pages with html coding, songs u can hear and blogging. Facebook has none of it. Facebook is better for people who already have friends while myspace is much more encouraging to make new friends. Myspace is still much better- dont understand the craze with facebook. Unique pages with html coding, songs u can hear and blogging. Facebook has none of it.

Facebook is better for people who already have friends while myspace is much more encouraging to make new friends.

]]> By: marc http://www.cheezhead.com/2007/02/12/top-ten-myspace/comment-page-1/#comment-117078 marc Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:34:38 +0000 http://www.cheezhead.com/2007/02/12/top-ten-myspace/#comment-117078 Um, facebook is just ugly - and its layout plagiarizes blogspot.com I am 29 years old. My friends have been using myspace since about 8 years ago. Every one I know has a myspace account. I would like to know when the service which offers lass versatility has won out on a market share of anything? Of course, the chatting realm was a bit of a fad. Now, we're more about talking to each other at our own leisure rather than meeting up to have live conversations. My friends are not boring, they like obnoxious things because they have sense of humors. They like to make flashy layouts and make a website which shows a little about how they view themselves. We joke about each other's layouts when we see each other in real life. If it weren't for the human tendency to make fun of each other - and ourselves - I wouldn't have a need for friends at all. If I needed something so boring, I would fall asleep, I would just read a book. If words are what you like, try that. The internet just goes beyond that. It's always been about pictures and music and funny posts. Don't you remember AOL? If you're so grown up, maybe you should just write letters to the people you like - or send a postcard. You spend your whole life growing up and then you die. Less is more? Only if your getting dressed to go to your 9 to 5. By the time I get around to checking my social network, I've forgotten about being an adult. Get over yourself. "grown up" is synonymous with "LAME"! Oh, and by the way - I've seen countless myspace pages which were actually very classy. Just get a friend who knows a little about HTML - and it CAN be done!! This can be much more impressive then a few photo albums and a blog entry. I mean, who DOESN'T want to be entertained? People spend billions on entertainment every year, because it's FUN!!! Um, facebook is just ugly – and its layout plagiarizes blogspot.com I am 29 years old. My friends have been using myspace since about 8 years ago. Every one I know has a myspace account. I would like to know when the service which offers lass versatility has won out on a market share of anything? Of course, the chatting realm was a bit of a fad. Now, we’re more about talking to each other at our own leisure rather than meeting up to have live conversations.
My friends are not boring, they like obnoxious things because they have sense of humors. They like to make flashy layouts and make a website which shows a little about how they view themselves. We joke about each other’s layouts when we see each other in real life. If it weren’t for the human tendency to make fun of each other – and ourselves – I wouldn’t have a need for friends at all. If I needed something so boring, I would fall asleep, I would just read a book. If words are what you like, try that. The internet just goes beyond that. It’s always been about pictures and music and funny posts. Don’t you remember AOL? If you’re so grown up, maybe you should just write letters to the people you like – or send a postcard. You spend your whole life growing up and then you die.
Less is more? Only if your getting dressed to go to your 9 to 5. By the time I get around to checking my social network, I’ve forgotten about being an adult. Get over yourself. “grown up” is synonymous with “LAME”!
Oh, and by the way – I’ve seen countless myspace pages which were actually very classy. Just get a friend who knows a little about HTML – and it CAN be done!! This can be much more impressive then a few photo albums and a blog entry. I mean, who DOESN’T want to be entertained? People spend billions on entertainment every year, because it’s FUN!!!

]]> By: Mark D http://www.cheezhead.com/2007/02/12/top-ten-myspace/comment-page-1/#comment-116900 Mark D Sun, 08 Mar 2009 18:03:20 +0000 http://www.cheezhead.com/2007/02/12/top-ten-myspace/#comment-116900 I'm sorry but Myspace is too ghetto. Making something too customizable attracts too many idiots. Pages load slower because of so much unnecessary crap which is why i closed my account. I feel I'm gonna get a seisure everytime i go to one of their sites. If you're in your teens than use Myspace but if you're an adult Facebook is where you wanna be. Facebook is more professional and easier to use. And has a much more cleaner interface. ...and works with my phone. I’m sorry but Myspace is too ghetto. Making something too customizable attracts too many idiots. Pages load slower because of so much unnecessary crap which is why i closed my account. I feel I’m gonna get a seisure everytime i go to one of their sites. If you’re in your teens than use Myspace but if you’re an adult Facebook is where you wanna be. Facebook is more professional and easier to use. And has a much more cleaner interface. …and works with my phone.

]]> By: CommonSense http://www.cheezhead.com/2007/02/12/top-ten-myspace/comment-page-1/#comment-114979 CommonSense Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:33:23 +0000 http://www.cheezhead.com/2007/02/12/top-ten-myspace/#comment-114979 Why Facebook IS better than MySpace Social networking sites are all the rage. Why? Because people don't really like dealing with eachother unless it's in text and pictures. Two of the biggest social networking sites are Myspace and Facebook, and I've had accounts on each because, well, I'm scared of actual human contact. However, I've got a definite preference for Facebook over Myspace, and here are some of the common sense reasons why. 1. Facebook is less emo than Myspace. If I want to read about some teenager's angst in leetspeak, I'll read livejournal. I'll never do that, though, because Facebook isn't designed around the profile like Myspace is. You can't put crappy Fallout Boy songs on your page so that they start blaring as soon as it loads, you can't put videos of AFI regretting their own existence almost as much as I regret their existence, you can't do anything except maybe put “Catcher in the Rye” as your favorite book. And if you do try to emo-out on Facebook, your friends will rag on you for it on your wall. Which is the way it should be, Myspace. 2. Facebook has no “Top Friends” list, which Myspace has. Hey, I've got enough drama in my life without ranking my friends in order of their importance and watching the fallout when they argue over placement. The alternative is even worse—suppose I take a lot of time to rank my friends and none of them care? How am I supposed to feel about that? Facebook doesn't try to make me judge people the way Myspace does; I'm free to do that privately. Why Facebook IS better than MySpace

Social networking sites are all the rage. Why? Because people don’t really like dealing with eachother unless it’s in text and pictures. Two of the biggest social networking sites are Myspace and Facebook, and I’ve had accounts on each because, well, I’m scared of actual human contact. However, I’ve got a definite preference for Facebook over Myspace, and here are some of the common sense reasons why.

1. Facebook is less emo than Myspace.
If I want to read about some teenager’s angst in leetspeak, I’ll read livejournal. I’ll never do that, though, because Facebook isn’t designed around the profile like Myspace is. You can’t put crappy Fallout Boy songs on your page so that they start blaring as soon as it loads, you can’t put videos of AFI regretting their own existence almost as much as I regret their existence, you can’t do anything except maybe put “Catcher in the Rye” as your favorite book. And if you do try to emo-out on Facebook, your friends will rag on you for it on your wall. Which is the way it should be, Myspace.

2. Facebook has no “Top Friends” list, which Myspace has.
Hey, I’ve got enough drama in my life without ranking my friends in order of their importance and watching the fallout when they argue over placement. The alternative is even worse—suppose I take a lot of time to rank my friends and none of them care? How am I supposed to feel about that? Facebook doesn’t try to make me judge people the way Myspace does; I’m free to do that privately.

]]> By: wouldn't you like to know,. http://www.cheezhead.com/2007/02/12/top-ten-myspace/comment-page-1/#comment-114812 wouldn't you like to know,. Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:07:48 +0000 http://www.cheezhead.com/2007/02/12/top-ten-myspace/#comment-114812 I know Facebook doesn't have all these error things that i know annoy the sh*t out of people and me too, but i log into myspace at the very least once a day and i have been using it for a long time and have a facebook account, yet i still prefer it. Because, Myspace screams -personality- to me, you can customize your page with colours and i don't understand why some people are sayin that facebook is better with the privacy issue, you get just as many people making fake profiles etc. and on myspace you can set your profile to private oh the other thing is, you have friend updates on myspace as well! It DOES say when people have updated their profile and when they've added new friends! And i find on facebook they give a little too much in friend updates like when you've commented a picture, i mean is that really necessary? Myspace is more original, i mean which came first? There;s just so much more to do. I know Facebook doesn’t have all these error things that i know annoy the sh*t out of people and me too, but i log into myspace at the very least once a day and i have been using it for a long time and have a facebook account, yet i still prefer it.
Because, Myspace screams -personality- to me, you can customize your page with colours and i don’t understand why some people are sayin that facebook is better with the privacy issue, you get just as many people making fake profiles etc. and on myspace you can set your profile to private oh the other thing is, you have friend updates on myspace as well! It DOES say when people have updated their profile and when they’ve added new friends! And i find on facebook they give a little too much in friend updates like when you’ve commented a picture, i mean is that really necessary?
Myspace is more original, i mean which came first? There;s just so much more to do.

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