Social networking sites have gone from popular, to overboard, to irritating, and now they're getting downright obnoxious. Everyone has to add clutter to their page to show their individuality. I liked facebook once upon a time because it was clean. I did the myspace thing because it was easier to keep tabs on music groups. Myspace was (in my eyes) for people who can't spell HTML and yet wanted a gaudy 'pimped out' page. Facebook was once for those that wanted to stalk easier because of how lax people had their security settings and were gullible enough to fill in all of their personal info.
Today, both sites are overrun with widgets, plugins, apps, and overall bling which i find to be obnoxious. I don't care about what you're doing via twitter, who you superpoked, or what music plays every time someone loads your page.
I've decided to create a name for these people. They will be the ones that 'pimp out' their pages. They are the ones that toss so much multimedia content on their page that it's slow to load irregardless of connection speed and machine performance. These are the people who have a ton of youtube clips embedded in addition to different apps that spam their friends into submission to join them.
Both sites have picked up more and more traits of the other and it's getting difficult to tell them apart. Because of the blending that has happened between both sides, i've decided that they need a new name. A name that not only reflects what has happened to the sites, but also their users.
I propose MyFace.
MyFace will be used by me as an insult referencing these people. MyFace is my new catchall word for these sites and their individuality craving, bling polluting, bandwidth consuming, eye sores that people create.
Oooo... someone has just sent me a beer on MyFace and i need to go return the favor!
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(EDIT)
http://www.myface.com/
Looks like i'm going with spacebook instead of MyFace. Doh!
2 comments:
Too bad someone doesn't buy you a real beer. But if they did, that means they'd have less time to pimpify their MyFace page. Decisions, decisions...
Buying you a real beer would require face to face interaction in a semi social environment. There would be no way to document this and as a result, they wouldn't obtain the virtual "pat on the head" for playing nicely with others.
It's easier to pimpify your MyFace page while at work and go home feeling good about yourself because you took 5 seconds to think good thoughts about someone. Congratulations. You deserve a cookie. Oh wait. There's an app where you can give people a cookie too!
MyFace isn't all that bad for keeping in contact and coordinating events. I'm not anti-MyFace. I'm anti-MyFace users that i've tried to define above.
To be clear, in my eyes you can use MyFace and still not be a "MyFace'er" like these people. The majority of people that i know fall under this category. What concerns me is that this "majority" is on track to become a "minority". Consider this a plea to stop assaulting my senses with your "expressions of individuality" and keep things toned down.
Just because you can, does not necessarily mean you should.
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