[Air-l] Facebook, myspace

andrea baker bakera at ohiou.edu
Wed Nov 30 12:20:24 PST 2005


Lauren, hi,
I just wondered, when you said:
At 11:01 AM -0800 11/29/05, air-l-request at listserv.aoir.org wrote:
>On a design note, it's interesting that sites like Facebook and Myspace
>enable this kind of discourse by providing "comments" or "wall posts" that
>don't have to be approved or moderated by the user whose profile it is -
>whereas this wouldn't be possible on Friendster because users have to
>approve testimonials before they appear.
>
>Lauren

Were you sure or did I misinterpret?  My observation of myspace 
suggests that people have to be "friends" of the person to post 
comments.    Is that just an option, or a feature of the place? 
Also, in the linked article, only the friends commented on the person 
in Facebook, I believe.  Would you elaborate?  Interesting stuff, in 
any case.

thanks,
andee





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