January 4, 2008 – 6:14 am
You guys have been voting and a it’s clear that you love Facebook. The top number of votes so far have been for Facebook although both Myspace and Hi5 are tied for a close second. There’s really no telling where this will end since the poll is just a week old.
I’m excited and a bit surprised really. I thought that MySpace and Hi5 would be doing better at this point since both of them have more total users vs Facebook. It seems that the recent Facebook hype is not just hype. Your votes are proving that there’s more behind it and users really are prefering the Facebook experience right now.
Will this continue? As traffic builds to the polls and people start to let their friends know they should come here and vote for their favorite social network will we see Facebook begin to lose the lead vs MySpace? Or will Hi5 begin to dominate with it’s huge international user base?
December 31, 2007 – 4:11 pm
Facebook has been clamping down hard on wall and chain letter type spam lately as I’m sure any Facebook users have noticed. Per Facebook: “the next time you see a chain letter, chain wall post, or chain anything, report it to our User Operations team, and tell all your friends to ignore it”, also messages spread through Applications have become an issue so “if an application is telling you that Facebook is about to shut down, report it”.
I think it’s great that Facebook has clamped down on spam, however I see a bit of hypocrisy going on at the same time. You see, Facebook has also recently released Facebook Ads and guess what folks…yep there’s spam in them there ads.
Granted Facebook has been manually approving all ads, but that doesn’t stop some black hat SEO folks from slipping things through Facebook’s cracks. And let’s face it, Facebook won’t be able to keep manually approving ads forever, not if they want it to be profitable, which is pretty much the only reason to run an ad network in the first place.
Have you noticed any spammy ads recently on Facebook? Or maybe you’re pissed that Facebook is even allowing ads. Does that mean Facebook is no longer your favorite?
