2008 Woodie Awards
Myspace vs. Facebook
Your ammo for the cyber-network war
Wilson, Keith
Issue date: 11/7/07 Section: Entertainment
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Just taking a stroll through the loggia of Steely Library will reveal the sheer number of students actively ignoring each other so that they might be social - online.
With all that time invested in checking messages, 'poking' each other and posting bulletins, who has time to compare the ups and downs of Facebook and Myspace? The Northerner does. So read on and decide whether you'd rather be a soldier in the Facebook or Myspace army.
Naked Girls?
On MY Internet??
Many students may not care one way or the other when it comes to a professional or dignified method of communicating with their friends, but who hasn't felt a little awkward when Grandma walks by as a giant ad of a scantily-clad woman pops up over a fourth of their Myspace screen?
Facebook wins hands down when it comes to uniform layout and overall professionalism. That's not to say that Facebook will make any binge drinking photo album suddenly appealing to prospective employers, but at least you can open Facebook at work and only have to explain why you were wasting time and won't have the added time of convincing everyone you're not a pervert.
Unlike Facebook, Myspace has the added advantage of being able to code that allows it to look any way a user programs it to look (if they are programming-savvy) or to copy-and-paste pre-made codes from other Web sites, which is a mixed blessing. While it allows for much more customization, it also leads to some of the ugliest, slowest, glammed-out pages the Internet has seen since the ancient days of Geocities.
What about my hilarious photos?
Facebook scores again when it comes to photos. While Myspace lifted its initial photo limitations long ago and incorporated Facebook-esque photo albums, Facebook has had them much longer and they're not only better laid out and easier to use (like nearly all of Facebook's features), but they also wrote the book on tagging, which makes finding your friends easier. Myspace recently added tagging to their laundry list, but it's not quite up to Facebook par.
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