Oneself online

[seichan]

Saw an uninspired interview with the creator of Facebook last week and started wondering where the most popular online social network was or will be.

Facebook - connects "Real" people...as opposed to everyone here.
MySpace - too many photos of people showing skin...or flab.
Friendster - uncreative name, yes?
Vox - hyped for about 5 seconds.
Xanga - reminds me of Blogger and rhymes with manga..not.
Livejournal - home of rabid fangirls?
Yahoo 360 or Groups - ha, yeah right.
MSN groups - No. 1 in ugliness.
Bebo - no clue, but it kept popping up...looks like a copy-cat site with a clothing brand graphic as its logo.
Others?
Gaiaonline - RPGing with ugly graphics. Apparently FUNimation's marketing of Tsubasa was for gaia users to win virtual Tsubasa related goods...fun? eh, right.
Journalfen - where the wankers hang out.

Comments

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

Well, there is JournalFen for the rabid lj set. And wasn't xanga pretty big a while back? You can also add Greatest Journal to your list of has-beens.

Me, I've got accounts at several of those places but I rarely, if ever, use them.

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

Tried vox and yahoo 360 when they first appeared, but nobody hopped on board.

I have yet to be lured by facebook and myspace. I imagine that I would have liked those sites in high school.

[x-reggg.livejournal.com]

i have tried... facebook, xanga, LJ and gaiaonline D:

i still use facebook (scarcely) and lj (obviously).

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

lj has all the active anime, manga, drama communities in an easy to leech format. well, most of them...some are in independent forums.

[nis-chan.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised LJ is only at #11..
it is the best place for pirated goods and stuff.

Facebook was awful, I deleted my account pretty quickly =P

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

lj is a great place to meet other fans and stay anonymous...and leech ♥.
i guess facebook and myspace are popular for meeting real people and friending famous people.
i like lj for entertainment purposes only. ^_________^

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

I've got a vox account mainly as a backup in the event of another Great LJ Blackout, but then again, I hardly post regularly anymore as it is. Main thing about vox for me is that, while it's a good idea, I don't necessarily want my email account, photo uploads, etc. immediately associated with AJK the blogger. I see no reason to become a volunteer demographic case study for online advertisers.

Agreed on facebook and myspace. I have no desire to join the Rupert Murdoch empire, and you nailed it with the high school deal--the level of intelligence on both sites seems perilously low. The only reason I could ever be convinced to join myspace is to keep track of my favorite group's tour schedules. Luckily, there are still enough other areas to find that information that I can get by without!