There's a lot of arguments on the Internet as to whether the mammoth, universally accessible MySpace is better than the small but incredibly functional Facebook for social networking. However, there'
s a much better argument ready to be waged--which one is creepier.
Stalkability
Ask anyone who's ever taken a shot at a president to impress Jodie Foster, and they'll tell you that it's important to be able to get lots of information about a person's likes, dislikes, relationships, political views, address, when they're online and where they're going to be every minute of the fucking day. Facebook's "News Feed" has got the market pretty much wrapped up in this category, since its endless information gathering borders on census-degree intrusiveness and its members happily offer up information that stalkers can use to camp outside of a house, wait for their victim's favorite TV show to begin (How I Met Your Mother, yeah, we know) and sneak in the back door to pummel them to death with that bobblehead of Roger Clemens that the poor bastards love so much.
On MySpace, yeah, you can figure out a town, but the site doesn't ask a whole lot at sign-up. Maybe it's because the makers of MySpace foresaw the possible dangers of posting a massive amount of private information on the Internet. Maybe it's because their third-rate web programmers can't figure out how to type anything other than, "DURRRRRRR".
Winner: Facebook
Ability To Express Creepiness
On the other hand, there's more raw creative potential for users of MySpace to express the absolutely bone-chilling extent of their fascination of Fallout Boy. Whereas Facebook users are limited to a bland, relatively sane blue-text-on-white-background motif, MySpace users have the full ability to go absolutely bat-shit insane. Myspace users use shades of neon that would make a colorblind person go into an epileptic fit; they make things blink, scream, and maybe even bleed. The extent of MySpace's potential creepiness expression is infinite.
Winner: MySpace
Ability To Stay Anonymous
Stalkability
Ask anyone who's ever taken a shot at a president to impress Jodie Foster, and they'll tell you that it's important to be able to get lots of information about a person's likes, dislikes, relationships, political views, address, when they're online and where they're going to be every minute of the fucking day. Facebook's "News Feed" has got the market pretty much wrapped up in this category, since its endless information gathering borders on census-degree intrusiveness and its members happily offer up information that stalkers can use to camp outside of a house, wait for their victim's favorite TV show to begin (How I Met Your Mother, yeah, we know) and sneak in the back door to pummel them to death with that bobblehead of Roger Clemens that the poor bastards love so much.
On MySpace, yeah, you can figure out a town, but the site doesn't ask a whole lot at sign-up. Maybe it's because the makers of MySpace foresaw the possible dangers of posting a massive amount of private information on the Internet. Maybe it's because their third-rate web programmers can't figure out how to type anything other than, "DURRRRRRR".
Winner: Facebook
Ability To Express Creepiness
On the other hand, there's more raw creative potential for users of MySpace to express the absolutely bone-chilling extent of their fascination of Fallout Boy. Whereas Facebook users are limited to a bland, relatively sane blue-text-on-white-background motif, MySpace users have the full ability to go absolutely bat-shit insane. Myspace users use shades of neon that would make a colorblind person go into an epileptic fit; they make things blink, scream, and maybe even bleed. The extent of MySpace's potential creepiness expression is infinite.
Winner: MySpace
Ability To Stay Anonymous
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