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Facebook Applications or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Myspace

post #1 of 29
11/25/07 at 9:47pm
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Anyone who uses Facebook is aware of the ridiculousness of most applications.

Vampire applications that allow you to turn other people into vampires, reefah applications that allow you to take a puff and pass the joint. But most of all applications that are supposed to act as online flirting like buying people drinks or ruffling their hair.

But I've just seen the absolute rock-bottom of applications:

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Have Sex!
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Put a "Have Sex!" button on your profile. Anyone can now click on this button and have sex with you!

Have Sex! tracks and shows statistics and if you had sex with a friend that had sex with you - we'll let you know!

We are working on more cool features. Stay tuned!
How exactly are not the site owners aware of the terrible reputation this sort of trash will give their precious networking site?
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post #2 of 29
11/25/07 at 9:51pm
I just had sex with you.
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post #3 of 29
11/25/07 at 9:52pm
The applications have gotten ridiculously out of hand. I sent a message to all of my friends kindly telling them to cease and desist sending invitations to that nonsense. I get significantly fewer now - application invites I mean, not friends.

If only MySpace prevented people from putting shitty music on autoplay every page load.
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post #4 of 29
11/25/07 at 10:11pm
I have a few applications: the Flixster one (which I only use to show my favourite movies in poster form), the "Where I've Been" one (which is sadly lacking so I'll probably get rid of it), a Christmas Tree one which obviously I'll get rid of after Christmas and some NASCAR one which basically just says I'm a fan of Jeff Gordon. So really it's just basic ones I have.

But yes, I have seen WAY too many needless applications. I hate going onto peoples pages and having to scroll like a motherfucker to try and find something. And everytime I log on I always have invites for applications. Is there anyway to block these invites?

But as for Facebook vs. MySpace... Facebook still wins hands down.
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post #5 of 29
11/25/07 at 10:14pm
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I don't know, it's getting pretty even right now (Facebook versus Myspace).

But yeah, there are some decent applications out there. The MediaFire application is excellent, you basically have a shitload of files available at all times both to you and your friends.
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post #6 of 29
11/25/07 at 10:15pm
Its tough to jerk off to those Facebook profiles with all those stupid apps in the way.

I have Flixter too, but that exists outside of Facebookdom and therefore has some legitimacy. And yeah, Facebook wins.
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post #7 of 29
11/25/07 at 10:16pm
As long as you can still edit HTML code on MySpace, Facebook wins.

That being said, I can't stand the new influx of applications. I've got a couple -- politics, movies, books, music -- but the vampire/werewolf/zombie/one eyed one horned flying purple people eater ones are the most annoying.
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post #8 of 29
11/25/07 at 10:57pm
We have fun with the Vampire/Werewolf/Zombie/Slayer apps, and Scrabbulous is fun. But when I ordered something from Overstock.com and it created a notification on my page? Oh, that pissed me right the fuck off.
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post #9 of 29
11/25/07 at 11:29pm
There was actually a Facebook profile I couldn't load because it had too many applications. My computer crashed.
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post #10 of 29
11/25/07 at 11:57pm
Was it your Grandmother's profile?
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post #11 of 29
11/26/07 at 12:53am
I wish you could pick and choose which programs were displayed to you, on anyone's profile. I also wish I could pick and choose which people used Facebook, but that's a different thread completely.
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post #12 of 29
11/26/07 at 1:22am
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Originally Posted by Andrew Eaton
I wish you could pick and choose which programs were displayed to you, on anyone's profile.
You kinda can. Click the blue bar at the top of one, and it'll 'hide' it both right there and on any other instances of that app. Sometimes I go to one of my app-whore friends pages and just minimize 'em all, so in the future I don't have to load any one of those on anyone's page, I just see a big stack of blue bars.
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post #13 of 29
11/26/07 at 1:35am
But don't you have to do that for each app*? That's what I've always had to do. I'm complaining because I'm too lazy to do it since I don't look at everyone's profile page more than the first time I add them.

*Edit: changed "profile" to "app" because I don't proofread.
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post #14 of 29
11/26/07 at 1:56am
I don't even know why I still have a Myspace but I will not be getting in on this.
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post #15 of 29
11/26/07 at 2:07am
I've tried about eight or so times in the past month to delete my Myspace account. For some reason they won't let me. I've even sent emails to them pleading for the deletion of my account. I don't want to be associated with that piece of shit anymore.
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post #16 of 29
11/26/07 at 2:10am
Yeah I really should just pull the pin on it. No real reason to rehash my industrial rivet head days.
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post #17 of 29
11/26/07 at 2:45am
Facebook is an awesome way to stay in contact with everyone you like, but it requires skills.
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post #18 of 29
11/27/07 at 12:33am
Have Sex! tracks and shows statistics and if you had sex with a friend that had sex with you - we'll let you know!

Clearly this app is just there to eventually roll out the "Have Chlamydia!" application.
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post #19 of 29
11/27/07 at 1:48am
What's worse are these new Facebook notifications telling people what you bought on partner sites.

Now everyone knows I bought Butch Lesbian and the Lapdance Kid and Mighty Joe Schlung DVDs at Overstock.
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post #20 of 29
12/31/07 at 4:53pm
That "Are You Interested" application is the worst thing ever.

Thanks, Facebook, for fucking up a good thing. You never should have let the high school kids join.

Although I have to give them credit for the notes/posted item feature, which isn't as emo as a livejournal but lacks the pressure of a blog.
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post #21 of 29
12/31/07 at 4:58pm
Agreed. Facebook should've never left the confines of college membership. I constantly get requests to add stupid new applications. I miss the old Facebook.
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post #22 of 29
12/31/07 at 5:08pm
You know what else is terrible? Those zombie/vampire/one eyed one horned flying purple people eater fight things. So, so terrible.
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post #23 of 29
12/31/07 at 5:18pm
This is all from the last 2 weeks:



I will visit murder upon the next invalid who appends this list.
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post #24 of 29
12/31/07 at 5:52pm
I'm like an abused wife at this point -- I'm so used to Facebook and I unfortunately get over the teeny-bopper bias I associate with MySpace (although I currently have three accounts there, one for me, one for my film, and one from the one I tried to start one for my film and failed) but I realize its commercial cachet. Facebook, though, that was the first social networking site I really used and it's been real good to me, so even though those apps are a bowful of hate, I'll suck it up for now.
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post #25 of 29
12/31/07 at 9:13pm
Facebook really did hurt their brand when they opened it to everyone (before they did that, not only did they screen out annoying teenagers but they also cultivated an air of exclusivity) and the applications are annoying. However, have you guys scoped out the Old Oregon Trail application? That game went from being a running joke/pang of nostalgia on Facebook to being one sweet application. If they do more stuff like that, the applications may be redeemed.
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post #26 of 29
1/1/08 at 4:59pm
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Originally Posted by Andrew Eaton
This is all from the last 2 weeks:

I will visit murder upon the next invalid who appends this list.
I think you - and everyone complaining in here -need to change your settings. I have mine so that my profile is not public. The only people who can friend me are my friends. I rarely get application requests and I have yet to have someone attempt to be my friend who isn't.

And Lisa, MySpace is much more tech savvy than Facebook. You need to know htlm code to create your webpage or add any new features. On Facebook all you have to know is how to click on an "add" button and can drag your applications to wherever you want to format your page. I much prefer Facebook to Myspace.
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post #27 of 29
1/2/08 at 4:51pm
I delete all such things without looking at them. I'm not sure why I get these things, what they do, why people find them entertaining, or why they think I'd find them entertaining. Whatever they are, they can't possibly be important.
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post #28 of 29
1/11/08 at 1:01am
There's a Bucket List application. It's things like that that make me wish Facebook had a neg-rep feature.
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post #29 of 29
1/11/08 at 12:04pm
Again, change your settings people. I've never seen any of the applications you all are talking about.

Also, I haven't been on MySpace for months. I checked it last night and there's now a News Feed ala Facebook on your homepage. And the battle continues.
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