Facebook, MySpace, & Classmates.com
Posted by delta on September 8th, 2008
I’ve had MySpace up and running for a few years now, Classmates.com for a few months, and Facebook for a few days.
MySpace is perfect for an open forum – place to go to network/market you or your company. The UI is a mess (way to sloppy and hard to find things to edit), but it’s good for what I use it for – marketing and networking with people/companies I do not know (although I make it a point to add nobody as a friend unless I’ve at least met them)…
Classmates.com is pretty useless, but I’ve found a few old friends in there that are no were else…
Facebook is great! Closed off from anyone other than my friends – we can say and do anything and it stays amongst us (reminds me of “First Class” back at CSUMB in ’95). The UI is way better than anything else out there too. This is the place to go to find old friends and people you work with…
So, I recommend, if you want to find people you don’t know and don’t mind a crappy UI, go with MySpace. If you want to find people you do know and work with a very user-friendly UI, go with Facebook…
As far as the iPhone Apps go, Facebook’s is slightly better simply because IM/Chat is built into it…