Observation about social networking:
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drcuriosityReal names are the new aliases.
In amongst trying to map various of my friends online presences to/from their actual names, I just discovered that someone who I'd seen around LJ for ages and finally got around to enfriending recently is, in fact, someone I first ran into on a mailing list back in 2001. D'oh!
15 hours in, we have 28 for Facebook and 9 for MySpace. Other observations:
* I don't like the way Facebook hides what some links are doing with <a onclick=""/> events. I know it's very "Web 2.0", but in a new system where I'm not sure whether the links I'm clicking on are from Facebook itself or from third-party applications, it's still uncool not to have that affordance. (Granted, it was probably more of a problem because I noticed it on the first couple of links I tried to look at - looking further afield it doesn't seem to be as common as I initially thought.)
* It's certainly less bloated and ugly than MySpace, which both aesthetically and functionally seems to be held together with duct tape and fuse wire from the year 2002. (Man, I haven't seen another ColdFusion fusebox application in years. It's almost quaint.)
* It still feels odd to be talking about stuff from the start of the 21st Century as old :-)
Right, now time for more allergy/head cold medication, and back to work.
In amongst trying to map various of my friends online presences to/from their actual names, I just discovered that someone who I'd seen around LJ for ages and finally got around to enfriending recently is, in fact, someone I first ran into on a mailing list back in 2001. D'oh!
15 hours in, we have 28 for Facebook and 9 for MySpace. Other observations:
* I don't like the way Facebook hides what some links are doing with <a onclick=""/> events. I know it's very "Web 2.0", but in a new system where I'm not sure whether the links I'm clicking on are from Facebook itself or from third-party applications, it's still uncool not to have that affordance. (Granted, it was probably more of a problem because I noticed it on the first couple of links I tried to look at - looking further afield it doesn't seem to be as common as I initially thought.)
* It's certainly less bloated and ugly than MySpace, which both aesthetically and functionally seems to be held together with duct tape and fuse wire from the year 2002. (Man, I haven't seen another ColdFusion fusebox application in years. It's almost quaint.)
* It still feels odd to be talking about stuff from the start of the 21st Century as old :-)
Right, now time for more allergy/head cold medication, and back to work.
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Date: 2008-10-06 05:18 am (UTC)Well, if it makes you feel better, I spent quite some time thinking your two names referred to two different people, a few years ago. :D
That's the problem with only being on the fringe of a group and never quite caring enough to make the effort to fully integrate. ;D
And now I am off to up your Facebook statistics (but not MySpace because it is crap and I wouldn't join up, even if I had a use for it).
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Date: 2008-10-06 05:56 am (UTC)There's apparently a few people who hadn't figured out I had a real name for a while, heh.