Whilst you would be forgiven for thinking that either my blog has died, I have or your RSS feed reader is not working properly, I will admit that I have not been hanging out here for some time.
This is due to several things:
- the Forza2 effect
- the Pokemon effect
- the too much work and not enough play effect
- the Facebook effect.
I would probably not be lying if I said that Facebook is currently the most popular and respected social network out there. Myspace, in my opinion, went downhill a long time ago and has disolved into a “widget-hell” patrolled by the latest pop wannabees rather than people who want to meet others and develop a community.
I signed up to Facebook a while ago but never used it at all until recently someone where I work was talking about it. So I logged in, allowed it access to my Gmail address book and off it went and found quite a few people already registered on there.
Over the last 2 weeks I have been steadily adding friends, people have come out of the blue and found me and I have found other people through other friends. Its quite amazing.
Once you are “friends” with people, you also get to see their updates, who they become friends with, new photos they have posted or updates to their “status” tagline. This is the feature that I find most alluring. Its almost like a story evolving over time that you can watch and participate in. YOu can drill through the updates and see the details of each one, leave a comment or perform an action and then return to your profile.
It got me thinking that the ability to follow other “friends” blog posts and comments they leave at other sites would a nice web application to have access to, but a quick search through Google does not reveal much Taoski related information that I could use to follow my comments left on sites or forums.
I am working on relaunching Megatao soon with a new design and a few new ideas in the pot too. I just paid for another years web hosting, so I had better make use of it!
Well, it's not a giant lizard slaying robot and its not a new religion.
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i’ve got an account on both, and what you say about Facebook seems very similar to how I first felt about MySpace. The biggest problem I have with Facebook is the lack of HTML editing.
I think that is one of the benefits!
Keeping it all similar, sane and normal is good!
No more odd looking CSS designs with flashing logos and a page full of widgets is a good thing!
Interesting read about Facebook here:
http://www.socialcomputingmagazine.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=458
I have become a become a bit more of a Facebook convert recently. I have been on it for a year as it is where all the kids at my uni message each other, but I have always preferred MySpace as stacks of random people read my things and leave comments — I am basically a sucker for attention.
The more sinister aspects of sites like MySpace and Facebook is the targetted advertising and tracking that goes on with them. The people that run Facebook have a huge database of people, their contacts, who they know, how they know them, what they like, what music listen too, what their political and religious views are, and on and on… That sort of information has got to be making them a lot of money.
Recently, howvever, they have at least given us some control over the privacy of this information. This is especially useful now as all the third party developers of Facebook applications have started swamping in…
It’s all good fun though, the faces from the past have started to come out of the woodwork now..!
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