What’s the name of the script to do this? I have Firefox & Greasemonkey. Does it strip out things like “blah blah is playing mafia wars”? I have a few friends who I swear do nothing but play games on Facebook from dusk to dawn.
Here is a fairly detailed post comparing Facebook and LiveJournal. It’s an LJ post, so it assumes that you know a fair amount about LJ to start with. The comments have more information, as well.
I like Facebook way more than Myspace. I’ve had a Myspace for years and I think I’ve been to it about 30 times total in around 4 years. It’s more “customizable” in terms of backgrounds and stuff but I hate it and it’s kind of clunky nowadays.
Facebook I check more regularly, and while I’m still working on my fear of friending people it’s a lot easier to navigate. You can pick and choose what you want to add, and once your friends realize you don’t want every little app they pretty much leave you alone. In fact, I feel like Facebook has started to even replace AIM (at least, according to younger hipper college kids than me) in terms of sending people messages.
I am sure not everyone on MySpace is deserving of my prejudice, but for whatever reason I have a very poor concept of the type of person that uses MySpace. The colors, the noise, the more often than not vapid content…it just wreaks.
Facebook on the other hand I think is “friendlier” precisely because you are somewhat wedged towards people you already know, thus, already somewhat parallel to your own tastes and lifestyle. It is not as restrictive as some may think (example you can join networks that allow you to view profiles that aren’t your friends). I like the fact that I am not on some universally huge listing of people who can randomly find me. I don’t want to make acquaintances online. I just want to keep up with the lives of my friends abroad or those that are local but I just dont see as often, and give them a chance to keep up with what is new in my life.
In any environment, you can take things too far for good taste, and of course that is in the eye of the beholder. I just think Facebook curbs the opportunity for excess a little, while MySpace somewhat encourages it. Facebook has great privacy settings as well, if that is a major concern.
Boscibo - I replied to your PM with the name of the script.
Oh, and here’s another useful one - Facebook News Feed Sanitiser (removes those stories about other people’s scores/results/applications).
MySpace seems to be where teens, bands, and hook-ups happen. Facebook is a lot neater and cleaner. On MySpace you go by a nickname. On Facebook you sign up with your real name and location. I didn’t love that part.
I have both but I’ve all but given up on MySpace since I’m having to constantly change and update my Greasemonkey scripts to get rid of the ads and crap on the home page. Facebook is easier to manipulate that way. I like Facebook better–some of the apps are sillyass but I like a couple of them and while away a few minutes here and there sending silly “gifts” to my likeminded friends. Facebook is much easier to upload photos and videos to by a long shot, and lots of stuff like embedded links are built into the interface so you don’t have to by guess and by gosh things like sizing that can really fuck up a MySpace layout if you guess wrong. I find it much easier to find people on Facebook, it does a better job of actually being a social networking hub.
BTW, thanks to Crusoe for the script, I’ll try that!