Comments on: First MySpace, then FaceBook, then…

By: G

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:00:28 +0000

Is there ? or can we not get ? an adult social networking site similar to a facebook, but with out the dumbing down. I personally don’t want to be associated with pics of kids clamering over each other and various body parts. I like to be able to look up up an old friend and see what thier up to these days and vice-versa. It’s a great system if we could cut out the crap. Maybe if there was a $100. fee or something, it would keep the children and perverts off.
G.

By: drew

drew — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 03:56:52 +0000

if the socialization needs of teens/college students are fundamentally different than the needs of adults, why would we expect similar types of social networks? if nothing else, they would need to be quite different in their design and purpose. as danah put it, teens need a public space they can control. since adults don’t have that need, why would you expect similiar tools?

By: Massimo Moruzzi

Massimo Moruzzi — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 13:18:03 +0000

Greg, I’m not saying the profiles are phony – just that many of them are AFF-like (adult friend finder) profiles

By: Greg Hoyl

Greg Hoyl — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 17:03:04 +0000

Massimo,

By doing a random search you may run into phony profiles, but I can assure you that most 16-30 year old Brazilians with access to the internet have orkut profiles now-a-days. Hell, even Orkut himself paid a visit to the Google Brazil offices a while back due to the sudden popularity of his project.

Pete,

I think you’re comments are right on. Interesting POV on the self-reinforcing nature of social networks.

Cheers!

By: Massimo Moruzzi

Massimo Moruzzi — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 11:59:15 +0000

oh, c’mon guys, let’s be serious. Pornkut – sorry, I meant Orkut – is not a social network. It’s Brazil’s AdultFriendFinder, the place Brazilians looking for threesomes go to. Check out some profiles from Brazil until you find a few nude pictures, and from there on it should be all clear…

By: Pete Cashmore

Pete Cashmore — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 17:35:01 +0000

Greg (Hoyl),

I agree – social networks are self-reinforcing, and Orkut is a good example. I said as much here:

http://publishing2.com/2006/02/25/audiences-are-not-created-equal/#comment-892

Greg (Yardley),

Another great post – thanks.

By: Greg Hoyl

Greg Hoyl — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 01:17:14 +0000

After the Orkut phenomenon in Brazil, I sometimes wonder why MySpace never caught on here. Since Orkut has basically become THE social network for Brazilian’s, maybe shifting to alternative services such as MySpace just doesn’t make sense.

I guess it’s just a matter of whichever service receives the greatest acceptability at first… and then tips into becoming the “standard” network for that demographic.

By: John K

John K — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 23:06:38 +0000

Greg, you are a “creepy old man” with this MySpace obsession of late.

What’s behind all this social networking “research” you are doing? Yardley somehow combines MySpace and WoW and wackiness ensues?!?

By: Ryan Stewart

Ryan Stewart — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 21:47:03 +0000

“young people arrive in a new location, need to get socialized, and see their socially-successful, more-experienced peers already using the service.”

It’s interesting you say that. I’m not sure how much this contributed to The Facebook’s growth, but it started at Harvard, opened up to the rest of the Ivy’s and then moved along the “college food chain”. It’s almost as if MySpace and The Facebook targeted the same demographic but in different “verticals”.