Wednesday, October 7, 2009

(Anti) Social Networking sites

Today social networking sites are at the peak, and they still seem to be going strong. but, most are lame and not fun at all.
I, am going to review them...kind of.
So let us dive right in.

1- Myspace.com - Who the hell doesn't have a myspace? It's kind of annoying and slow, but that is mostly the massive amounts of advertising. Nothing you can't fix with a good AdBlocker.
My major critizism is how must like windows vista is; big, slow, annoys you with "are you sure you want to do this?" and has really turned into a joke. But, it works...usually. finding new friends is possible, but not always easy. Lot of people in it for the popularity on myspace. pc4pc w4w.
rating out of 10: 6

2- Myyearbook.com - personally, I used to love this site. I really did. I actually talked to people and made new friends. But that was a while ago. They did a major change to the website. They changed the layout, and instated a site currency, and a few other features. And so began the fall of myyearbook in my opinion. Soon you would be flooded with profitable messages asking you to rtf or to vote in a battle, or to comment and view their profile. This has gotten worse. much, much, much worse, since they introduced
*drum roll* VIP membership :D thats right, now you can pay to be shallow and meaningless! you can now send mass messages to everyone at the same time! become impersonal and as interesting as a spambot! and now that you have no real friends, you can earn greater rewards for playing games on the site! for doing other things that had intrinsic value before site currency was instated!
Rating out of 10: 4

3- Vampirefreaks.com - My personal favorite. they are much smaller, but it is really easy to make new friends. They have a premium membership available but it can't really be used to get you more friends, and what not. you can just tell a lot of people about stuff really fast and if they don't like it, they can delete you and not be bothered by you ever again. there are 2 friends list. who you consider your friend and people who consider you a friend. you don't have to approve or deny anything. again, personally, this is my favorite site xD
Rating out of 10: 9

4- Facebook.com - this is an antisocial networking site. it has its little fun things, buuut they can get pretty annoying. it does enable you to find people from your school you might know, but outside of that, you cant really make NEW friends. everyone's profile is private until you add them as a friend.
rating out of 10: 6

5- Stickam.com - kind of confusing, kind of weird, and also enables people to be shallow...often. also seems to be a place for teen girls to show their breasts and for creepy old men to show their dicks...I don't frequent this one very often xD
rating out of 10: ?

these are networking sites i still currently a member of, at the moment.
these are past networking site i was a member of

note: these all FAIL

1- Netlog/bingbox/whatever else they called it - Seriously. They changed the name, then started up a parallel site, then closed the original. The UI was terrible, the site currency cost you real $$$ and in order to upload a photo, you had to use your site currency. Taking to people was hard, and no one ever seemed to respond.

2- Tagged.com - A stalkers dream...I swear. Plus the fact no one ever talked and there was nothing to DO on the site because no one ever talked.

3- Hoverspot.com - Dull, lame, boring. 'nuf said.

Aaaaaand there are more, but they sucked so bad I don't even remember their names... but they all had the same problems listed above. nothing to do, no one talked, ever, and you felt alone on the website.


side note: you can spot anti-social people on most websites really easy just by viewing their profile
a- profile is on private, and when you try to add them, they require you to know their email.
b- profile layout is designed in such away you have to scroll half way across your house, to the right, to find their "add to friends list button" if it has not been removed, or disguised as something else.
c- their profile is a shrine of worship to "the love of their life"

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