Facebook users fight back against new Facebook applications

Bah, people need to shut the hell up and stop whining. I'm sick of all this "It's going to turn Facebook into Myspace!" crap. Who cares if many apps are useless? It's an open platform, available to anyone with time and patience. If developers want to create "useless" apps, they have every right to do so. Facebook is a community site, and everyone has the freedom to create and use any app they want. All these people whining about Facebook turning into Myspace need to get off their high-horse. There's nothing elite about being on Facebook, so stop acting like you're better than those on Myspace just because you have a Facebook.

The reason that we don't want facebook to turn into myspace is because we don't want a retarded commercialized social networking space full of spyware, viruses, and adds.

The big deal about facebook (used to be) that you had to have some type of confirmation to join, that way not everybody could join.

when you get on myspace you have no idea if the person/profile you are looking at is anywhere near the actual creator of that profile. Not that facebook is perfect but its a whole lot closer than myspace.

Interesting to hear 2 different takes on the facebook issue.

Some of the new apps are not very useful at all. Some are very useful. We are trying to filter out the garbage and review and rate these new applications so that people can make informed choices for which applications to use on facebook.

You can read more at http://www.facereviews.com

Cheers!
Rodney Rumford

I suggest staying in your own little University network and don't venture out. Out there, it's not safe.

FaceBook is as every bit as useless as MySpace, perhaps even moreso as the interface is stunningly worthless and nigh incomprehensible.

most of the new apps blow but some are tolerable. as long as Facebook doesnt lose the standardized and clean cut interface i will be happy. its way better than Myspace especially with an ad blocker.

and i really have no idea what DNA is talking about. the menus are fine!

This is the equivalent of Mac vs. Microsoft

Facebook was clean, sharp, styled. It was free of junk, of useless apps (many of them that do the same thing.) Free of friend requests from unknowns, ads, and privacy that was customized incredibly.

Now - it's not. It's Myspace. Imagine Mac becoming like Windows. That's the problem here.

It's not whining. There were reasons that the majority joined Facebook. It was not to have another networking option, another "MySpace." It was to NOT have a MySpace.

And - that's not true any longer, and I'm not so sure it's going to go backwards.

Anyone know of the next "Facebook" the way it used to be???

when your making billons of dollars a year cant you just leave it at that?

greed is not the american dream.

You have the choice of adding or not adding applications to clutter up your own profile, so if you dislike it don't add it!

Also if you're complaining that your friend's profile is too cluttered, then tell them about it

I disagree with the Mac vs. PC argument, it's not like that at all.

As a former MySpace user who abandoned ship because the community became an abortion of web design laden with horrible sense of style and multiple crappy media files loading every time you load a person's profile. Controlling who saw what on your profile was difficult (it was all or nothing) and "friends"? Ha. Yeah, I was "friends" with numerous bands and companies. MySpace has become an advertising whore where anyone and their dog (yes, plenty of dogs have their own page) puts garbage online.

At least with Facebook everything is (was) kept lean and sleek and there is a level of control and responsibility. Its primary function is social networking. I've found it great to reconnect with friends I'd lost touch with since my youth.

Now, I must admit that with any application or website, change and improvement comes over time - the first incarnation of Facebook most likely didn't have things like the Wall but I don't see how features like the community postings (classified ads) make Facebook a better social network; Craigslist is for selling things.

I've truly come to think of the two sites this way... MySpace is for the 8-18 crowd what Facebook is for the 19-35 crowd, we use the sites in different ways. Take note, Facebook.

(Okay, I'm not a tard, just didn't complete my original thought in the 2nd paragraph above and there's no edit feature.) :o