social networking top 3
After the demise of Friendster, I had given up on social networking sites. And for a while it seemed MySpace was the only alternative, but it is just so ugly I could never force myself to use it. Apparently there are ways to code the html yourself to make it look better, but those enigmatic techniques are shrouded in mystery and spoken in low tones. I've been trying to construct a MySpace page but I just don't know if I have the patience.
In the meantime there's Mixi, a Japanese version of Friendster, but with a lot more features. It's based on the user actually knowing people in real life, which is the way I prefer it, and completely not the case with MySpace. Then there's Facebook which looks to be the closest American alternative to Mixi. I think it's great, I don't know why more people aren't using it. It's also based on you actually knowing people in real life, and it's full of smart photo features, and the interface is uncluttered and virtually commercial free. For the gays, we've got Dlist which is a little more frisky than others listed above, but not quite as overtly slutty as the alternatives like gay.com or gaydar.
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roddy, i promise to get on facebook this week!
i may also hit dlist and other overtly slutty alternatives.
word,
r.
Posted by: r. | March 14, 2007 8:34 PM
what about zaadz? aesthetically most appealing me, missing some key features though. and yes myspace crunchy and ugly- my quasi-solution was just to erase with html as much as possible (/nathanfuhr - strangely though it looks different on different browsers)... it's like a party with bad house music but youre kinda forced to go because everyone is there.
Posted by: nathan | March 23, 2007 1:00 PM