| 12/11/2010 6:08 pm |
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 OFFLINE |  Originally Posted by Dødherre Mørktre:
Originally Posted by Joe Waters:
Originally Posted by Dødherre Mørktre:
its looking like the online forum has gone the way of the dodo, in favor of drive-by social networking tactics. at the risk of sounding like an old fogey, it's kind of a sad commentary on society to me. not this specifically, but it's just one symptom of a larger movement toward superficiality, that's been going on for decades now. but i think it's at the cost of context. it seems to me like the continued sheeple-ization of the populace.
Sophia from UM2 created a My Space refugee group that works ok.
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/home.php?sk=group_123787324348102&ap=1.
I like this quote function though.
Thanks for pointing this out.
Whats wrong with being rowdy? Did you get put into the corner too many times as a child?
glad to have you. invite some friends man. no one too rowdy, of course, but i'd definitely like to expand on the number of posters in here.
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| 12/12/2010 8:55 am |
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OFFLINE | well, i basically quit myspace a long time ago, but i still have my profile and all. in their quest to be like facebook, myspace has completely cornered itself out of the market. |
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| 12/12/2010 4:03 pm |
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OFFLINE | I'm gonna close my myspace too. Will be like the LOTR films in a way. It started quite slow, got really good and then went a bit wrong at the end. Anyone hear from Blackadder these days? Kinda miss him |
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| 12/13/2010 4:16 pm |
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OFFLINE | Originally Posted by David Macleod:
Yeah it's like a single serving friend style of talking we're getting with wall posts. I like going into a group and reading and discussing actual topics in a free flowing yet structured way. Wall posts are fine and dandy for what they are but lack depth - itls like a quite chat as opposed to a conversation. I should get stuck into dreamweaver more and make an online forum lol
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| 12/17/2010 5:51 pm |
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OFFLINE | I agree with you guys all the way unfortunatly Myspace does not. The thing I hate about putting up forum style questions on my wall is that most of my friends do not know what I am talking about and probably at least to them most of the time do not care. This is the main reason why you usually have to seek groups of your own interest and not just posting to people you know. This we can do in a few other ways yet Myspace was just easier to find what you wanted to talk about many groups have failed but at least some of us continued to find each other and chat about things that you can not talk about with friends and family. So, thank you dodherre for keeping it real. |
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| 12/17/2010 7:22 pm |
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OFFLINE | I agree. I'm a refugee from the MySpace universe, but its just getting so hard to use. I still pop in there now and then, but its like going into an old abandoned building. I'm still curious to see what the Group "upgrade" looks like in January. |
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| 12/18/2010 4:33 pm |
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OFFLINE | Originally Posted by Russell Jones:
I agree. I'm a refugee from the MySpace universe, but its just getting so hard to use. I still pop in there now and then, but its like going into an old abandoned building. I'm still curious to see what the Group "upgrade" looks like in January.
Yea...it is like revisiting an old abandoned building, you're right.
I still have my account but I don't do anything with it anymore.
Who knows, maybe myspace will make a big comeback and then facebook will be the "thing" of the past. |
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| 12/28/2010 4:39 pm |
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OFFLINE | Originally Posted by Dennis Young:
I quit myspace too. The only reason I went was to talk with you guys. Otherwise it was getting too slow, and I could never get help from the techs there.
Yeah, same with me. Then they cracked down on internet surfing in work and I can't get involved in here much either, go figure.
The move more towards wall posts as opposed to forum posts can either be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on your view. You do lose depth of conversation but you maybe gain breadth - as in, you're saying less but more people are reading what you say. For me, as I can only only steal 5mins at a time during the day to look at facebook, the wall posting suits. |
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| 01/04/2011 12:59 pm |
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OFFLINE | Originally Posted by Feaw Guita:
Who knows, maybe myspace will make a big comeback and then facebook will be the "thing" of the past.
It'd want to be one seriously huge game-changer of a comeback to regain the ground they've lost - like introducing 3D web browsing or something. Given that Godman Sachs have recently valued Facebook at $50Bn, that's a lot of ground to catch up. Once a company has gone from being the "big new cool thing" to being yesterday's news, it takes a seismic shift to get back to being cool. Apple managed it, but I can't see Myspace having an "iPod moment"....... |
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| 01/04/2011 2:37 pm |
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OFFLINE | myspace reminds me of the soviets. if they couldn't produce their own technology capable of competing with the west, then they just stole the west's technology, making inferior clones. |
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