Comments on: Using Facebook vs MySpace

By: John Quiggin

John Quiggin — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:53:53 +0000

I wonder how the recent en masse adoption of Facebook by older educated people (for example, Crooked Timberites) will affect all this.

By: rhyd

rhyd — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 01:27:32 +0000

a few other things really ought to be looked at.

for instance, myspace users viewing the site with Mozilla Firefox with the ad-block plug-in don’t see a single ad anywhere (like myself and most of my friends); Facebook, however, embeds the ads well enough that ad-block cannot get at them.

so the point above concerning aesthetic preferences is a very important one: Facebook allows you merely to move the info boxes around, while myspace allows much more changing. a basic understanding of html or a little curiosity will allow any user to define much more how others see their page.

So the aesthetics are directly influenced by the structure, and don’t seem easily separated.

By: links for 2007-11-22 at Jacob Christensen

links for 2007-11-22 at Jacob Christensen — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:20:02 +0000

[...] Eszter Hargittai – Using Facebook vs MySpace My main point in this post is that the issues are likely more related to the composition of people’s offline networks and the structure of these sites rather than people’s aesthetic preferences. (tags: facebook myspace web2.0 communication internet network) [...]

By: Tsmoss

Tsmoss — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:38:15 +0000

yoyo: Not everyone considers it an “aesthetic rubbish bin.” Personally, I think it’s garish, but there’s a lot of options to make one own page more from-our-perspective-garish, which many users are, in fact, using, presumably feeling that they’re improving the aesthetic qualitites of their own pages. That these different notions of beauty are in large part sociologically determined hardly needs saying.

By: yoyo

yoyo — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:50:29 +0000

I have difficulty understanding how the aesthetic rubbish bin that is myspace wouldn’t affect one’s choice.

By: Alison

Alison — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:02:06 +0000

Worth looking at this and seeing what the possible consequences may be.

http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=2458