>On Jul 27, 2009, at 8:40 PM, Left-Wing Wacko wrote:
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>>Bad new for lefties on Facebook! :)
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>I could swear I read this a year ago.
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>Facebook looks good and MySpace looks like crap. Am I saying the same
>thing in a different way?
>
>Doug
yes. I remember it, too. there are entire mini-thesis devoted to the design faux pas made by myspace -- the black background, the flashy animated .gifs, the sparkly .gifs, the really bad attempts to allow for customization of the designs, etc.
also, very important. The black background tend to signify that it is a non-corporate, non serious publication site. as a consequence, it became very easy to notice if someone was reading something unlikely work-related. boss's would complain.
in my complain, the host file blocks myspace but doesn't block facebook. when I asked, sysadmins told me it was because boss's complained about myspace. which is weird, because all you have to do is look at facebook statuses and notice that everyone is posting from work.
you can keep a facebook page up and, from a distance, it looks like a perfectly legit site where you might be reading something related to your job.
i think this posting and reading stuff from work business is the most understudied aspect of the whole social media, web2.0 world.
your web app will go utterly nowhere if it requires more than the attention span of a nudibranch.
ha
shag