Subj : BBS Population
To   : Ogg
From : Nightfox
Date : Wed Oct 05 2022 12:19:07

  Re: BBS Population
  By: Ogg to Irish_Monk on Tue Oct 04 2022 11:33 pm

 Og> I think FB has been largely successful because it gives people 
 Og> a sense of control over their content and emulates a kind of 
 Og> personal website. BBSes don't offer that for its users.

I think MySpace was even more like that before FaceBook in that MySpace also let users control the look & feel of their account page via the use of CSS.  But I heard a lot of people didn't like the inconsistent look & feel when viewing user accounts, and that's why people started to move away from MySpace and use Facebook instead (I thought that was a little weird - I think it gave a sense of peoples' personalities).

These days, I've been hearing a lot of people don't use Facebook anymore and are using Instagram more often.  But I don't really see Instagram as a replacement for Facebook, since Instagram only lets you post photos, whereas Facebook lets you post pretty much any kind of content.

Nightfox
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