I have cunningly avoided myspace and facebook. I’ve made one profile once, and the url tells you why I made it. I can’t even remember the password I used.

http://www.myspace.com/silkybadgeredme

I can’t check it at work to see if it still works because they’ve just installed an untangle box, and it blocks myspace. I’m not particularly depressed about that.

From memory, there is a photo of the CN tower on the profile, but it might be a bit hard to make out at first.

As for the paradox of choice thing, it’s not so bad when there’s only a couple of choices, but when you have a shitload of similar choices, that’s when the psychological benefit turns into a psychological cost. Store carries three brands of car batteries? Fine. Easy. Store carries thirty brands? Er… time to really commit some brain time.

I personally hate all of the social networks I have tried. Facebook was cool at first, but it lost it. My peers use Myspace, but it is the worst website to ever exist. Sadly, most of my peers seem to be moving away from e-mail and IM to MySpace and Facebook.

Scary but true. Especially since the Facebook profiles will now be indexed by search engines.

I’ve added nothing, and I will do my best to make sure it stays that way. I hate the look for the cluttered profiles. And lets not forget the more we put into the profiles, the more info a social engineer will have on us, or marketers.

Same here. I do ignore most if not all of them but they keep coming. And majority of them masquerade as regular notifications such as group initiations, friend requests and event invitations.

I wish there was a way to turn off all the app invites, because I hit ignore on all of them anyway. I also hate the way everyone’s pages are so cluttered. I added two apps on my own – Where I’ve Been and Flickr Badge, and gave in to a Growing Gifts app, but have only gotten one gift.

I like to use Facebook as a way to keep up on what people are doing, and all the stupid apps get in the way of that.

Actually I haven’t noticed it much either. It’s just that the focus of the site has changed a little bit since it became an open network.

Good idea on the centralized database for courses. I didn’t think about that.

I don;t mind the “open to everyone” attitude they have taken because I stick in a very particular network, so the only time I even know there are high schoolers is when I going group searching.

The courses thing is so irritating, Facebook should have a single database for that, and all the different apps should just provide separate front-ends.

LOL!

I noticed that since they opened it to “everyone” it’s been getting more and more like Myspace. I guess it’s that pesky lowest common denominator thing – quality of the network seems to be inversely proportional to the number of users it seems above some operational threshold. ;)

facebooks first mistake was opening up to highschoolers, it went downhill after that.