Comments on: Facebook Gets More Awesomer

By: Guinevere.ca : life as a web producer » Blog Archive » The Changing Face of Facebook

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:36:45 +0000

[...] I wrote about how Facebook’s one shortcoming was the lack of ability to customize your page like MySpace or Virb. However, because of the the overwhelming success of Facebook Applications, I [...]

By: Guinevere

Guinevere — Wed, 30 May 2007 15:31:51 +0000

I wouldn’t discount the presence of vanity simply based on the absence of visual customization. There’s already contests on Facebook to get more people on your group than a competing group- to raise your friend count, and if we drill down, anytime we’re flaunting our own information by adding our latest hot photos of ourselves and updating our statuses to the amazing thing we’re doing right now, we’re stroking our vanity and helping our egos.

By: Ted

Ted — Wed, 30 May 2007 06:32:43 +0000

I’d rather keep the uncustomizability of Facebook than have it become myspace. Facebook is about information, Myspace is about vanity.