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by Ntrails 3993 days ago
Facebook was about real life, myspace was about the internet. Facebook was about statuses, groups, uni life, wall to wall convos and organising your life. It's where I heard about climbing club trips, or socials, or that someone in halls was watching top gear on their tv and the price of entry was 1 slice of pizza ordered.

Then of course there was the user experience. Facebook was plain, simple, uniform and quick. Myspace...

    -Click on myspace page
    -Wait 10 secs for background to load
    -Really loud obnoxious music is playing
    -Animated page background starts going
    -Quizzes load
    -A wild photograph appears
    -You can see an embedded youtube now - hit pause
    -It wasn't the goddamned youtube making the noise, now you've got two things running you idiot
    -Try and pause the youtube again
    -page freezes
    -audio player loads
    -manage to stop everything playing
    -have epileptic fit from background
    -forget why you came here anyway