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Facebook vs Myspace

The battle rages

Oh yes, social networking at its best or at its most popular. The two kings of the mountain right now are Facebook and Myspace. Facebook which started as a college thing has, as of recently, pushed to become king of the social networking with the development of its Facebook Development Platform. I’ve been quite impressed with the Facebook Development Platform with the ability to add 3rd party tools; it’s really cool. What I’m currently digging right now is:

Movies by Flixster – Rate and Reviews movies and see what all your friends say! I really like this one.

Favorite Peeps! by Dennis Rakhamimov – Show your favorite people that you care!

Del.icio.us, Digg, Twitter, last.fm to name some other popular applications. I cannot wait to delve deeper into them.

Actually, about a year ago, one of the Facebook developers, Dave, came to Penn State to talk to us about Facebook and what he does. He spoke of the Facebook Development Platform and how cool it was going to be; and yes it is. I think the best part of the FDP (Facebook Developer Platform) is the integration into the UI (user interface) and that it works. Seamless integration with all aspects of Facebook is just such a huge selling point to me as a user. I can honestly say, Facebook you have stolen my heart.

Facebook has been slowly adding the ability for its users to customize their pages while still staying true to their design. Also I haven’t had any SPAM or porn-bots try to contact me on Facebook. Facebook keep up the great work, I’m glad you didn’t sell out to Yahoo.

Myspace, I only use you to talk to people that don’t have Facebook. I’m sorry it’s you, not me. Actually, I think the blogging tools for Myspace are better than anything Facebook has, so one point to Myspace. Myspace has RSS feeds, you can add blogs and can be notified when they are updated. I’m quite interested in integrating Myspace with Wordpress using Wordpress Myspace Auto-Crossing via [http://noumenon.roderickrussell.com/wordpress-to-myspace-auto-crossposting] because it’s easy to read blogs with Myspace. I think a lot of my friends just write things off the top of their heads, which is fun to read most of the time; unless they are bitching. Other than music, which is decent, on Myspace everything else usually has problems and downtime, which as a user I really hate. 

Okay so maybe it isn’t a battle between Facebook and Myspace they can both co-exist and seem to have two very different goals. I will continue to use both, but something else will eventually come along. What’s this I heard about bebo? ew maybe not.