myspace

MY Facebook Addiction

Sunday, December 30th, 2007
by Jeff

As usual, it takes me a while to "get it."  I signed up for Facebook a few months back because I really hated myspace.  I’m not exactly a neat freak, but myspace pages tend to look like a wall that someone threw up on.  Blinking gifs, comments on where to get free ringtones, and videos embedded that all play at once when you load the page.  It’s a mess.

I decided to mostly abandon my myspace page and signed up for Facebook and at first was underwhelmed.  I liked the look better, but still it seemed pretty boring.  Recently I checked back in with Facebook and started adding apps, including the most addicting one, Scrabulous.  It’s just what it sounds like, fabulous Scrabble.  You play games of Scrabble with your friends kind of like a chess game that goes on for weeks, with each person making their move whenever they get the time.  I’m hooked, even though I suck at  it.

Then I added a whole slew of apps like What’s on My iPod, Flog blog, Twitter, Books iRead, and Flickster.  Now Facebook has become interesting!  It’s really the best social networking site out there, since you can see just about everything your friends are doing.  Voyeurism is so addicting!

So good riddance Myspace, and hello Facebook!  If you aren’t on it, sign up and add me as a friend. I need to practice my Scrabulous.

Myspace sucks

Sunday, October 14th, 2007
by Jeff

You know what’s wrong with myspace? Here’s the list:

• Blinking gifs
• Songs playing automatically on pages (songs that usually suck
• Comments left that include a graphic that doesn’t get scaled down so now your page layout is all screwed up
• Backgrounds that make it impossible to read the text
• Text that you have to highlight to read
• Pages with 20 Youtube videos all playing at once
• People who use comments instead of email when asking personal questions
• The WORST blogging software ever made
• No widgets, gadgets or whatever else you want to call them
• Friends who thought that hot chick about to take her top off video that got sent to them would be so good that when they clicked on it and “myspace“said “oops you’ve got to be logged in to do that,” they went ahead and “logged in” and gave their password to some place that is now spamming me with Macy’s gift cards, deals on marijuana, and telling me that size does matter.

That’s just the short list too.

So I shopped around for my own web presence, one that I can be social with and customize without all the mess. Word Press was my first choice. I like Word Press a lot and am using it for other ventures, but I haven’t learned enough about style sheets to take full advantage of it yet.

Then I came across Windows Live Spaces. I was pretty skeptical, because Microsoft hasn’t exactly been batting 1.000 lately. Vista is a nightmare, and does anyone actually own a Zune? For all its faults, Microsoft does get a lot of things right, like the XBox 360, Windows Media Center, and now I can add to that list Live Spaces.

Spaces does have social networking features, but it looks a lot cleaner then any mypsace page. It’s also more customizable. Myspace doesn’t let me add widgets, or as Microsoft likes to call them gadgets. These little apps that you add to your page can do anything from showing you the weather to letting you play mini-video games. I’ve opted for using them to show my Xbox360 gamer card, the books I’m reading, and some other things I’ll add soon.

So I’ll try Spaces for a while and see if I continue to like it. If it turns out I don’t, I can easily keep this page and create another blog somewhere else and post to the same entries to both. So you all keep your silly little myspace. It’s so 2006.