Social networking gets interesting again
I’ve taken a long hiatus from posting anything here on Worst, mainly because it was just getting boring. MySpace sucked — and still sucks — and nothing exciting was going on in the world of social networking. One can only look at so much glitter text before you start thinking about hijacking a loaded school bus full of teens and veering it off a cliff, just to do what you perceive to be a favor to the Internet. Plus it wears on your soul, just picking on people’s crappy MySpace profiles all the time. A lot of negative energy emanates from my black heart, but not that much.
Things get interesting again
Just over a year ago, I predicted that Facebook would wipe out MySpace. MySpace isn’t gone (yet), but Facebook is suddenly the hot sh*t after it opened its platform to developers, while MySpace remains stagnant and buggy. (If it’s any hint, the biggest source of traffic to Worst of MySpace are the search keywords “myspace errors”).
Before today, I’d said that this was the death knell for MySpace: Facebook gets it, they choose to evolve, MySpace chooses to pull a Friendster. And so things go.
Google gets in the game
But now, in a challenge to Facebook Apps, Google is introducing OpenSocial, which aims to be sort of a meta-platform for creating social networking -based applications (or SNBAs, which is an acronym I just invented).
OpenSocial apps will be able to run almost anywhere, like on this crappy blog, and not just on a social networking page. Already, Google has partnered with companies like LinkedIn, Friendster (ha!), Salesforce and now MySpace; developers will be able to tap into your friend bases on these networks.
Just imagine! Once a Facebook phenomenon, you’ll now be able to “Throw Sheep” at your associates on LinkedIn or Salesforce, too!
The future
The potential is enormous. For a long time, social networking on the Internet has yielded absolutely nothing worth a monkey turd. Now, people are figuring out how to tap into all these superfluous connections we’ve made to actually do something with them. What remains to be seen is if people can build things slightly more awesome than Superpoke.
Worst prediction: The next killer app arises out of OpenSocial in 2008.
As far as this blog is concerned, I’m not ruling out some angle with all the terrible MySpace profiles, but let’s just say it’s not going to be the sole focus anymore.
November 1st, 2007 at 4:47 pm
I still like myspace better..
Facebook is slow and if you download their freakin’ apps…it takes forever to load them, then you just don’t want them anymore.
Their apps are as equally as annoying as the top 40 people (which I will admit I have…but damn…I get bored!)…
Either way, both will die very soon, I think.
But most likely, and sadly..myspace first.
November 1st, 2007 at 6:24 pm
what do you expect from a junction that has ads for shave the hairy back for free ringtones, zwinkies, are you gay quizzes… i mean, just click refresh and it’s a plethora of terrible ads mixed in with even more terrible profiles. however, i do have to say that i have actually met some cool peeps from lurking on the internets, some in real life and some not, so i guess it’s served a purpose. wait. i have also met some real a$$bags on the internets too. whatevs.
November 1st, 2007 at 6:27 pm
Yeah, sorry about that.
November 1st, 2007 at 7:53 pm
yay, you’re alive!
November 2nd, 2007 at 9:38 am
I said it once and I’ll say it again:
“Social networking has become the as*hole of the internet.”
It’s an open forum for everyone to show just how bored and lame they can get. A beautiful thing. The broader the networking, the shi*tier the content. “Why is that?” you might ask. Because people are f*cking retarded and can’t wait to show it to the world.
Btw, good to see you’re still kicking Mr. Nutz. Perusing yahoo chatrooms for minors to cyber with must have become a full-time job for you to fall off the face of the Earth like that. In other words, welcome back.
November 2nd, 2007 at 4:45 pm
I use Myspace for two things; talking to my friends (I’m a junior in high school), and looking at cleavage pictures that the girls I know take of themselves.
That being said I don’t spend much time looking for people to talk to or posting surveys/blogs/comments. The bulletin feature’s only redeeming quality is that is demonstrates how lonely your sexual competition is (”would you kiss/finger/****/rape/molest/dominate/sodomize me” surveys for example) or that that fat chick you were nice to once can’t take a hint. Something about online pseudo-anonomity just makes people turn into extroverted maniacs. That quiet girl in your Chem class suddenly become Ms. ****** McFuckMeNow as soon as she lays hands to the keyboard.
As soon as I stop being able to ask that chick I met at the mall for her myspace instead of her phone number, that’s when I stop using Myspace. Mob rule dictates that Myspace is still useful, but soon Facebook will have shown itself more useful, and Myspace will die a cold lonely death.
I think that sort of follows on what Rosenblat said about the stupidity of the users. People are just too stupid to know that Myspace is the inferior.
It’s good to know you still have fingers Nutz, and I like the more mature turn the posts have taken. Just don’t cut out the evolutionary wastebin ridicule entirely.
Some of us need ego food.
November 23rd, 2007 at 3:19 pm
If you’re not a huge fan of MySpace, check out the plugin at http://www.amIOnMySpace.com. It may be quite useful.
December 29th, 2007 at 12:03 am
Came across your site by accident and thoroughly got a huge amount of joy out of it.
I have happily permanently exiled myself from MySpace.
If you’re still doing it, I will soon submit some possible Worst sites.
In the meantime, I share with you …
http://sterrapin.wordpress.com/2007/11/09/thematic-break-remove-me-from-your-space-now/
http://sterrapin.wordpress.com/2007/11/18/thematic-break-sterrapin-vs-myspace-part-deux/
http://sterrapin.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/editrepost-the-real-way-to-kill-myspace/
April 16th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
Dude, you really need to post something. Your material is fading fast.