Forum Post, 11th December 2006, Subject: Facebook
Where I am in Oxford in the UK it seems that everyone is switching over to using Facebook rather than Myspace as their social networking tool of choice. It seems to be attracting a broader range of people using it and many people who haven’t got Myspace pages. The attractions seem to be that you don’t have any coding to do to personalise your page - it’s all very simple and much less customisable. It doesn’t have any page viewing figures or ‘top friends’ which eliminates any kind of heirarchy or bitchyness. It also has a (recently added I think) news-feed feature which updates you (upon logging in) on any changes to your friends’ profiles such as new photos/comments/new friends etc. This is the most distinguishing feature in comparison to other social networking sites and allows you to really keep up-to-date with what is happening amongst people you know. You can also alter preferences on this feed to allow you to see information about specific people or subjects more or less. There ...