Is Facebook Slowly Approaching MySpace?
When Facebook first opened it’s doors to literally anyone, I started receiving requests from completely random people. I’m guessing they were fake profiles created by data mining companies (or the like), as just before rejecting them, I’d check their profile. There would be four or five “friends”, none common with me, from all over the world. I’d neither heard of these people nor their so-called friends.
Recently—more specifically since the opening of the new Facebook Platform—I’ve been receiving these requests again. This time however, it’s getting out of hand. I’m getting two or three new requests a day, all with the same suspicious traits that the original profiles had.
Coupled with some of the ridiculous widgets (I hate using the word, but nothing else seems appropriate) that people are placing on their profile pages, Facebook seems to be more and more similar with a certain competitor. Applications like this one, this one and this one just desanitize (what’s the relevant antonym for sanitize?) the few things that were left about Facebook that I liked.
Soon we’re going to see hideous wallpapers of cute kittens, ridiculously gaudy titles in a gold, cursive font, proudly proclaiming that this person is in fact a complete idiot.
With the amount of people already addicted to Facebook, is it too unrealistic to say that Facebook is slowly becoming MySpace?