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Re: Myspace = Viral

Darren Kopp — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 00:47:55 -0000

don't worry, myspace only has an uptime of 15 minutes, all the rest of the time there is something broken on it.

Re: Myspace = Viral

Jeremy — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 00:50:08 -0000

I work in a .edu. MySpace and Facebook (.com) are without a doubt the two most popular sites visited by our students (guessed at that at first, but verified it with proxy logs).

It's the cool, hip new "thing". I'm guilty of having my profile on both of them, but I don't regularly access either one of them. My fiancee (20 yr. old college student), however, is a complete "facebook addict". I've threatened to block her from facebook on our home network. =)

Nearly two months ago there was a nice little attack on MySpace. It was actually quite good, in my opinion, and well thought out. I'm not saying I advocate it, but every once in a while someone will pull off an "attack" that just makes me grin. =)

Re: Myspace = Viral

Carl M — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 14:19:30 -0000

oops ... left out a line ... (It'd be nice to be able to edit our entries).

ONE GUY: "I'm not."

Re: Myspace = Viral

Carl M — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 14:18:33 -0000

Brian: "You are all individuals!"

Crowd (in unison): "Yes, we are all individuals!"

Re: Myspace = Viral

Tim — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 13:39:12 -0000

I got into the whole livejournal thing 'cause it's the blog of choice for an online community I'm in

But I refuse to join myspace and the like just because my RL friends are using it. If you want to contact me, call me or come by for a visit. Seriously.

Re: Myspace = Viral

Marisol — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 10:48:22 -0000

I don't get the hype either...yet I have friends that praise it. I wonder if some hidden message is implanted into their brains from their MySpace site. hmmm j/k

Re: Myspace = Viral

Paul — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 09:10:13 -0000

Yet another way for us net-citizens to think we are really, really, hip-cool-special-individualist-one-of-a-kind-people, while in fact we are turning into puppets in the marketing game.