Ok well I noticed this last night and I should have taken a screen capture. Underneath the 'control panel' module, there was a new module added called 'Applications' where you can add apps and such just like facebook. When I clicked the link I got the famous myspace error.. But now it's gone.

i think it's the open app thing all the social networks are going to be doing. an app one one social network will work on all of them and you can play scrabulous with someone on myspace if you're on facebook or bebo or orkut etc.

Interesting I wonder how that works

not too sure.
here's the info (of course google is behind it).
http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/

That's not what it means. Open Social exploits XFN to allow you to easily find friends from one social network on another. Say you have a last.fm account with some friends, if you were to join twitter it'd automatically find all your last.fm friends who also have twitter accounts and let you follow them.

It can be used as a foundation for apps that work on all networks but there's a lot more to the problem than what open social can solve.

I just don't see why I'd care.

Obviously, Facebook has stolen a lot of thunder from MySpace, of course they will try to copy.

I don't see how, I think facebook is crap.

Have you even seen MySpace? It's like a retarded version of geocities. Facebook isn't perfect but it's the best thing that most people have.

Facebook, for the most part, is designed well.

Yeah, having a million applications on each page is

And making it damn near impossible to find people who dont go to the same school as you. And making it so you cant join two schools. Myspace is a lot more userfriendly. Facebook sucks.

Myspace pages are ugly and accounts are easily exploited.

Impossible to find someone who goes to your school? What the hell? its really not that hard. You type their name in the search and chances are, they'll show up.
Why would you want to join more than one school?


Myspace is not user friendly. So what facebook has applications, you can minimize them. They're a lot less obtrusive than hideous customized myspace pages.

Uhm... they both suck?

Your opinion doesn't count though.

I like facebook more than myspace. Just as long as you don't go crazy with applications.

Who's to say its not a fact?

Me. Just saying they "suck" isnt a good reason. If you think its a fact, prove it.
I find facebook incredibly useful for keeping in touch with people. Its designed well, and works well. I've never had any trouble with it.

Opinions.

Brilliant point!

I was just assuming that there was a better way to keep in touch with people invented years and years ago.... See if I can pronounce this right... te.... telee...telephone?

I just hate myspace because of how many people become addicted to it, as well as the fact that facebook/myspace has become an excellent way to track/spy on people.

Oh har har youre sooo witty. Yes I have a telephone. So do my friends, its wonderful. We also have things called "lives" which prevent us from answering phones all the time.
On top of that, I cant necessarily show all of my friends a photo album over a telephone :p I guess I could upload it to public webspace, but I dont feel like going through that much effort.

As for "addiction," thats your own damn fault.
Track and spy? Sure I guess if you're paranoid. Facebook has excellent privacy standards. I have mine set so that if you go to my school you can see my name / picture and who Im friends with. Thats it. Nobody outside of RIT can see that. I also have a limited profile for other people (people I only know slightly) so that I can hide my email/phone number/address.

Not to mention if you don't want someone to know something, don't publish it on the internet.

It is NOT a difficult concept, yet it seems to allude our nation's youth.

I find it's an excellent way of connecting with people who have similar interests that you may not have met otherwise. I've met a TON of people interested in Parkour through Facebook that I never would have met without it.

I don't bother with either right now, since the only internet I have is via my psp. Just typing this is like text messaging with my hands duct taped together.

So does facebook have some sort of enrollment varification system? Or can you just tell it you goto RIT and then poof, access.

You need an @rit.edu email address...

Not too bad, but you could still work around that im sure.

Telephone numbers change, facebook/myspace addresses stay the same. Keeping your facebook/myspace up can make sure you keep in contact with people who may otherwise fade away.

I think anyone who says they're "stupid" either a) has lived in one place all their life or b) doesn't have any friends.

I think you found the issue!

Facebook is freaking awesome, I'll give you an example that's recently made me happy.

I left RIT a year ago, I thought I liked computer science, turned out it was the most awful thing ever. I'm looking to get into politics, but I didn't really have the money to jump right back into another school, so I'm back home for a year. But I've still got a lot of friends up in Rochester, and I do keep contact with them through facebook, AIM, etc, but I've been wanting to see them for a while, but with school / work, it's difficult to see them all in a weekend without a car.

I check on facebook, it shows that there's a party for St. Patrick's day coming up, and a whole bunch of friends of mine were going, all of them from different social groups, all going to the same get together. I used facebook to check out if they were all going to be there, I send a message to mb, he says he'll pick me up / let me sleep on his floor / write embarrasing drunken notes and leave them on his kitchen counter. I pick up some tickets on airtran, and I'm there for the weekend, seeing everyone I've missed. (I also put as my status I'm coming to Rochester, a few people said they may come say hi)

Without facebook, no one would have mentioned the event to me, as each participant would have never put the pieces together. For every group, it was just a normal party (I can't stress how strange it is that all these different people were going to the same place) and such a series of events would never have taken place on myspace.

Facebook owns. It really does.

The custom applications can be as annoying as custom myspace layouts. But I like the ability to create my own myspace 'look'.

I have checked out facebooks API and started to make my own application but then I thought to myself.. what is the point?

Can be. Most people I know dont have them in excess. Myspace layouts however are typically terribly designed and play music and slideshows and etc :p

I like the ability to create your own look, but most people cant design. Facebook keeps it simple, which is much nicer than what most people would do to their pages.

At some point in the nearish future I'm going to sign up at myspace and start putting my music up.

You can minimize apps on facebook.

Because I take classes at 2 different schools?

I attended two different highschools. Am I only allowed one set of highschool friends?

Same.

Thats different though. Its not like you're at 2 schools at the same time.

You're not limited to only having friends in one school though. I dont know how, but you can probably set it so youre at 2 different schools. Or at least say that you are.

You can change schools once every 6 months. Or make a second account. No other way around it.

You can add schools to your education section though.