http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/10/13/social.networking.class/index.html

Interesting, but I don't buy it. My friends list is the same on both sites and lots of high school students are using facebook now even though it started as something for college students.

10/15/2009 3:05:11 AM

OOPS! Wrong Forum. Someone please move this to chit chat.

10/15/2009 3:06:13 AM

The difference would have been far more obvious a year or two ago, before most of the high schoolers on MySpace also set up facebook accounts. Said time would also have been before MySpace changed a lot of its shit around to make itself look as close as it could to a more cluttered and badly-coded version of Facebook... Also, this would have been before Facebook added a lot of the customization and before it became filled with quiz applications and shitty time-wasting games like farmville.


I, for one, deleted my MySpace a couple years ago (after not having used it for at least a year before that), and no one that I regularly hang out with or talk to still has one (or if they do, they don't use it). I'm actually very surprised that MySpace didn't have much worse stats than it did... I've seen very few differing opinions from "MySpace is a shithole" across the internet at large and among anyone I've ever heard mentioning the topic. I just figured almost everyone quit using it when they left high school (or just got sick of the constant barrage of animated glitter .gifs, fake spambot accounts, and autoplay music).


Possibly the reason MySpace did so well is because there are still some affluent, semi-intelligent people who just haven't bothered to delete it yet. Or such people happen to have idiot friends and want to cover all their social-networking bases... That, or the site has actually improved itself considerably in the past year or so, to the point where it is no longer the dirty asshole of well-known social networking sites. I doubt that, though.

[Edited on October 15, 2009 at 3:45 AM. Reason : why did I make such a long post on a would-be chit chat topic... no one is going to care.]

[Edited on October 15, 2009 at 3:48 AM. Reason : Note: I didn't read any part of the article besides the statistical bits]

10/15/2009 3:43:14 AM

This was a viable theory when Facebook was only available to college students, but that social divide no longer exists.

You're three years late to the party, Big4Country, but that's not surprising.

10/15/2009 5:15:15 AM

^I'm not late. I already knew that most people like facebook more. Myspace has gotten better though because they cut out all of the spam e-mails.

10/15/2009 10:50:39 AM

^^and they ran a similar story when that was still the case

must've been a slow news day

AND there was a tww thread about it
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[Edited on October 15, 2009 at 10:55 AM. Reason : ]

10/15/2009 10:53:43 AM

ICE

FANNIES

WHAT CRITICS?

10/15/2009 11:04:10 AM