Myspace
Pros
- Alot of features, like mail messaging and other stuff,and not just blogging and connecting.
- good for connecting friends
- A very good way to get published. For instance, I noticed they have a lot of sites from bands, so you can check them out and you can also publish videos alot easier. not too shabby. Xanga was a horror trying to post videos.
- I always liked the long profiles that you could put up on your site i.e. more detailed (which is not always a good thing)
- Never in my life have I seen my porno ads then myspace. I had to close the screen in disgust many times.
- SLOOOOOOOOWW! perhaps due to the fact the whole freaking site is bigger than google.
- Confusing as heck. I takes my thirty seconds each time to find the button I need with all the different little ads and popups with dozens of features
- Popularity contest. Although you may be "connecting" with people, it really just comes down to whoever has more comments or friends.
- Horrible atmosphere. Several young girls have been raped over myspace, partly because myspace is so bent towards dating and finding love on the net (as evidence by the dating service ads). So even though its connecting friends, it often connects them in a disguisting sort of way (i.e. dating, online relationships, and sometimes rape)
- More perverts. Although Myspace supposedly has a "no porn" policy, I have seen several risque and/or perverted things on that site that really shouldnt be tolerated.
Pros
- Weblog acction! is more bent towards people that want to blog about stuff and post pictures on posts.
- More Community like. Xanga feels more like you can connect with your friends, and always know whats going on in their life when you subscribe to them and comment on their posts. Myspace just didnt has as much to comment on and felt more like a dating site.
- SIMPLICITY!!! Not very confusing, and could be used by just about anybody. Also a lot easy to customize your site.
- I always liked the ideas of blogrings, and connecting people with their certain interests. I dont know if Myspace has a feature like this.
- Relitvaly clean. 95% of the sites ive seen usually do not have any horribly perverted material. This might be because Xanga has people that patrol sites to make sure your not a xanga perv.
- Alot of ads that were a bit risque. they used to have alot more, buit luckily they took them down.
- The system of comments seems to get out of hand. Like in myspace, sometimes it can just get down to whoever has more comments.
- Xanga also has a "no porn" policy, but I have seen this rule violated, but usually the site gets taken off the web soon after.
- No filtering. Pretty much anybody can subscribe to you, and it can get slightly annoying when random people give you "props." Myspace fixed it with having them become your friend first (although that got annoying too)
On the home front, I was still able to play Saturday, but my wrist was continually hurting and is right now. Its gotten a little better....
Today at church, Me, Sam, and Anna performed our skit for the church. Everyone seemed to like it a lot, and some people said we allmost made them cry (?). Great job Sam and Anna!
Spring Break is almost over sadley, and my guitar has not come in and wont be coming in till summer. once agian, it works out in a crazy sort of way. I guess tommorow its back to school.
Peace out
~Jared
3 comments:
TYou had some good points there. I always found xanga more enjoyable on the blogging front and myspace for the connecting with people thing. heck if not for myspace i wouldnt be able to communicate with my peeps from AUGUSTA. I also cannot stand the ads on myspace but i usually just refresh the page and it changes. oh and with the who has more friends alot of people feel it is like that but thats anttitude not certainly true about everyone. they have groups on myspace that can connect people with the same interests. I like the whole friend i dea cuz it protects you. if you ad someone you dont know you have a higher chance of getting hookep up with a pedophile and getting raped. It all depends on how you use both sites that make them enjoyable. I personally like both of them equally and so yeah..
thats all i have to say.
-bradley
I jumped off of myspace after other people (that I didn't know) commented on my site making me feel extremely uncomfortable, not to mention a lot of the other stuff you talked about. Also, last night there was a special on tv talking about the dangers of myspace and the fact that schools are now beginning to shut it out of their systems. After the things that I've read, heard, and seen personally, you cannot convince me that Myspace is a safe place for anyone; guys, girls, young, and old. Myspace has some serious potential to get you into trouble.
Well, seeing your research has comfirmed my initial belief, analisys, whatever you want to call it. It is not without reason that I am against Myspace, and I hope you understand better now. Your post has made me even more against it. soooo, rock on, cya tomorrow.
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