The Games People Play (On The Social Nets)

Facebook is the preferred social net of the digerati, the educated and the elites . MySpace is more hip-hop, punk rock, goth, and emo. At least that's the stereotype, confirmed by some sociological research.

Starting right about now, the non-Facebook social nets, like MySpace, are due to introduce interactive, social apps, as Facebook has had (to much fanfare) for sometime. Among the major app developers, MySpace and its ilk are seen as a vast and open territory -- a new westward land rush.

I'll be curious to see how this plays out. I just can't see, for example, Scrabulous or the Where I've Been app taking off on MySpace. For that matter, I can't see "throwing sheep" taking off either. Amusement at sheep being thrown is the sole province of people who would name their children Topsy Taylor, surely. Or if that's too patrician, then maybe it's the people whose idea of a fun night is a bottle of Riesling and a nice round of the utterly risible boardgame Cranium -- complete with categories called Cloodles and Sensosketches.

Stuff like music and movie apps will probably be as popular on MySpace as anywhere else, but if the assumption is that the Facebook experience can be ported over to MySpace, sans-hitch, count me as doubtful.

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"Utterly risible." Indeed.

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