{"id":1695,"date":"2007-03-27T02:30:42","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T06:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1695"},"modified":"2007-03-27T02:37:44","modified_gmt":"2007-03-27T06:37:44","slug":"spacing-facebook-dead-long-live-spacing-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/03\/27\/spacing-facebook-dead-long-live-spacing-on-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Spacing Facebook dead &#8212; long live Spacing on Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cavalierdaily.com\/.Archives\/2005\/11\/15\/lf-facebook.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last week we received a note from the people at Facebook that our Spacing Magazine account had been suspended. We inquired further and it turns out only &#8220;real people&#8221; can have accounts. At first we were a bit upset &#8212; they killed us &#8212; but then the more we thought about it, the death of Spacing on Facebook is a very good thing.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook is the best social networking software we&#8217;ve come across yet. The back and front-end interfaces are fantastic, clean and user friendly. Better yet, they keep the anarchy of the &#8216;net at bay by ensuring that only individuals have accounts &#8212; and then Facebook makes them obey their design rules (seems so Canadian). We&#8217;ve all but abandoned our Myspace account because it&#8217;s the Dubai of the internet: cancerous and unregulated growth, hard to navigate, difficult or impossible to tell what&#8217;s real and what&#8217;s not, and most importantly, it generally looks ugly &#8212; like 1994-era free geocities websites.<\/p>\n<p>The first, and only, online social network I joined was Friendster four years ago &#8212; until now. It&#8217;s still around, but at some point it stopped being &#8220;cool,&#8221; and it failed to become part of &#8220;regular life&#8221; &#8212; something Facebook seems to be doing. It compliments real life, rather than creates a new universe &#8212; so it does what technology should &#8212; help us along (in this case, socially). In the one day I&#8217;ve been a member, I&#8217;ve already found a few people from the past now scattered around the globe I thought I lost. And by limiting it to individual people, it makes it harder for large corporations to get a hold of this chunk of Web 2.0 (look at the way CBS and other networks dominate YouTube now).<\/p>\n<p>So, if you joined Spacing on Facebook and it&#8217;s gone, that&#8217;s why. But a number of the Spacing editors have accounts now &#8212; something most of us thought we&#8217;d never do &#8212; and we&#8217;ve created a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=2260128902\">Spacing group<\/a>, so join it, if you want. As for Myspace, we&#8217;ll watch it from a distance.<\/p>\n<p>(<em>Image by Angelique Sklavounos in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cavalierdaily.com\/CVArticle.asp?ID=25218&#038;pid=1368\">Cavalier Daily<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we received a note from the people at Facebook that our Spacing Magazine account had been suspended. We inquired further and it turns out only &#8220;real people&#8221; can have accounts. 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