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Ultimate Social Networking

  • 09-02-2009 8:00pm
    #1
    Nerin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,523 ✭✭✭✭


    *disclaimer, people that hate social networking run away*

    ive been wondering, whats everyones opinions on social networking sites features.
    I have bebo for ages, due to the fact most of my friends will only use it, so its the easiest one to use to stay in touch.
    i used facebook briefly (didnt post anything of importance, and deleted account) myspace, well, soon had to play with the privacy so american emo teens would stop messaging me. account deleted.

    i see that windows live have started a social network style page now. its not new, they had live spaces for a long time, but this seems to be an overhall.

    bebo is now being e-raped by spambots and the like.

    so if there was a new site to be built, what would you look for in features.

    i like html coding, but myspace had TOO much, profiles where awful looking when people jammed to many things into them.

    i like applications, to a degree, but id like the option to turn them on and off, like sigs on boards.

    opinions?


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  • #2
    towel401
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭towel401


    i think these sites are always going to have spam unless you have one of those sites where you need to be the person's friend before you can message them. like on facebook

    and that's not very social at all is it. why should you need a website to keep track of real life friends?


  • #3
    Adam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    towel401 wrote: »
    i think these sites are always going to have spam unless you have one of those sites where you need to be the person's friend before you can message them. like on facebook

    and that's not very social at all is it. why should you need a website to keep track of real life friends?
    the idea is not to keep track of real life friends, it's to be able to "socialise" with them when you're not actually in their presence.

    also, do you have many friends that don't exist in real life??


  • #4
    Teutorix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Teutorix


    Adam wrote: »
    the idea is not to keep track of real life friends, it's to be able to "socialise" with them when you're not actually in their presence.

    also, do you have many friends that don't exist in real life??
    I dunno about you guys but i have loads of internet friends.

    Im so lonely :(


  • #5
    towel401
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭towel401


    Adam wrote: »
    the idea is not to keep track of real life friends, it's to be able to "socialise" with them when you're not actually in their presence.

    also, do you have many friends that don't exist in real life??

    and it will be the death of people socialising in real life. well not really but you are replacing it with a pointlessly fake internet-based alternative.

    real life is so much better than social networking sites, the 2 just don't compare. i pity the fool who spends their days on those things. i used to be that fool so i'd know.

    and this...



  • #6
    Nerin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,523 ✭✭✭✭Nerin


    towel401 wrote: »
    and it will be the death of people socialising in real life. well not really but you are replacing it with a pointlessly fake internet-based alternative.

    real life is so much better than social networking sites, the 2 just don't compare. i pity the fool who spends their days on those things. i used to be that fool so i'd know.

    and this...


    Maybe i should have used size seven font on the part about people who don't like social networking sites.


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  • #7
    towel401
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭towel401


    Nerin wrote: »
    Maybe i should have used size seven font on the part about people who don't like social networking sites.

    no. size 14. it's recession after all


  • #8
    L31mr0d
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,067 ✭✭✭L31mr0d


    stumbleupon tbh. Has everything I need for social networking. When on the internet I want to see what my friends are also liking on the internet and their opinions on it.

    I'm also starting to use services like panoramio to add to the collective. Imo social networking is not about networking with the people you know in real life, its about working, getting to know and helping people you'll never meet. Wikipedia is great example of this.

    To me social networking is best described by Jeremy Zawodny when he called it "cognitive surplus", i.e. the useable cognitive time that we have for recreation after work that can be put to a collective use. Previously we'd waste it on unidirectional media that we could not contribute to (like radio, newspapers, tv... etc) now we have the opportunity through social networking and the mashability of web 2.0 to produce as well as consume media.

    Social networking is not about cutting off physical ties to real people, its about expanding your social network to include those that you can't make physical ties to, and, tbh, I've done a lot more constructive work with people i've never met then I have with people I meet face to face every day.


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