Myspace, its like Facebook only not as cool. But at least they have music:

MYSPACE MUSIC TO GLOBALLY PREMIERE NEW GUNS N’ ROSES ALBUM “CHINESE DEMOCRACY” BEGINNING NOVEMBER 19TH

LOS ANGELES–November 19, 2008— Chinese Democracy, the highly anticipated album from Guns N’ Roses, will be premiered worldwide exclusively through MySpace Music, the world’s premier music community. Beginning today, fans can stream Chinese Democracy in its entirety three days before the album will be available for purchase by visiting the band’s official MySpace Music profile. The Guns N’ Roses album exclusive on MySpace Music marks one of the biggest premieres for the company, with all MySpace territories participating.

“Guns N’ Roses is rock and roll defined. I’m as eager as everyone to hear it,” said MySpace President Tom Anderson. “It’s truly an honor to premier this album on MySpace before it’s available to the world at large.”

Chinese Democracy will be the first original recording from Guns N’ Roses since the 1991 releases of Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II. Guns N’ Roses has sold an estimated 100 million albums worldwide, 42 million in the United States alone. Since joining MySpace in 2005, Guns N’ Roses has made more than 400,000 friends through their MySpace Music profile. The new album will be available globally to MySpace territories including the US, Canada, Argentina, Mexico, Brazil ,UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Norway, Finland, Denmark ,Russia, Turkey, Poland, India, Australia, New Zealand, Korea and Japan.

MYSPACE MUSIC TO GLOBALLY STREAM THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED NEW ALBUM BY THE FIREMAN ON NOVEMBER 20

MySpace Music proudly presents The Fireman’s new album Electric Arguments. The project is ten years in the making between Paul McCartney and Youth. Beginning today, the MySpace audience can stream the entire album for free before it goes on sale on November 25. Listeners can find it on The Fireman’s official MySpace profile. Electric Arguments, the brand new third studio album, is their first album to feature vocals from the duo.

Aaron Sorkin, screenwriter of Charlie Wilson’s War and The West Wing, is scripting a movie all about FACEBOOK and its formation. Weird.

Paramount Pictures wanted to keep the film on the down low but Sorkin leaked this information on his Facebook page, but of course.

Facebook was created in 2004 on the Harvard campus by sophomore student Mark Zuckerberg and has now grown to over 60 million members. Facebook is valued at $16 billion and big companies like Microsoft and Google have been in a bidding war over the company.

The movie will focus on how Zuckerberg and his associate’s lives have changed after becoming an overnight sensation. Sounds a little dry. I don’t think I could justify paying money to watch an entire movie about Facebook unless it was a long slideshow of extremely drunk people doing things (like driving the porcelain bus) that would embarrass their families, bosses and co-workers.

According to ComScore.com, while new social network users in North America seem to be leveling off, the global trend shows that sites such as Facebook and…well, mostly Facebook, are gaining new members in the parts of the world where I’m pretty thankful I wasn’t born.

From Information Week:

The number of new users in the Middle East and Africa has risen by 66%, while the number of new users in Europe rose 35%. In Latin America, the number of new users on social networking sites rose by 33%.

Facebook.com has held the top spot among social networking sites worldwide since April 2008. The site experienced 153% growth in the past year, due in part to its use of natural language interfaces, ComScore reported. Most of Facebook’s visitors (49 million) still come from North America, although Europe appears to be catching up, with 35 million users. Growth in North America stood at 38%, while European users grew by 303% and worldwide users quadrupled, according to ComScore.

Finally the rest of the world is catching up on wasting their time. YAY INTERNET!

Reading this kinda made me laugh but then I realized it’s totally true. Facebook is a great way to stalk someone and creepy guys seem to take advantage of this. I especially agree with Co-Ed Magazine about “guy who promotes the club he goes to” and “guy who you’ve never really met.” Luckily here at the Synthesis there aren’t any “creepy guy from work” issues. But you all know that guy who posts all day on the internet to make sure you check out his new, half-naked mirror pics. Um ew.

Guy Who Promotes The Club He Goes To
Remember when you had way too many Jack and Cokes and spikey-hair-tank-top-guy asked to be your Facebook friend, so he can hook you up with sweet deals. Of course you don’t, he was so tan it was like an extension of the wood bar was talking to you. Now he writes mass wall posts inviting you out every Thursday night for “wet t-shirt contest, girls get in free, 18 party 21 to drink, $1 bud lights 10pm-11pm, message me for directions” encounters. At least he will provide awkward conversations when your kids are your Facebook friends and ‘Sir Creeps A lot’ is still writing about body shots on your wall.

Guy From Work

“Guy From Work” knows you as the go-getter in the office; the hard worker who’s trying to get ahead in the world while he is on Facebook wondering how to spell your last name and which network you belong to. He got the nerve to friend you one day, and ever since he saw your spring break 2006 pictures he’s never really looked at you the same way.

Guy Who Was Your Professor in College
Ok, you went up to this guy’s desk one time just to ask again how many sources your paper required just so you could use the sources from the Wikipedia page you copy and pasted, and suddenly he’s your friend on Facebook three semesters after you took his class? Invasion of privacy? Maybe, but just because he has your first, middle, and last name as well as date of birth, social security number, and GPA doesn’t mean he isn’t allowed to poke you.

Guy Who Updates Too Often
You don’t even remember where you know this guy from. Is he from 7th grade summer camp? Or that winter break job you had in the mall? All you know is that this guy’s status updates are so revealing and provocative that there is no need for him to write an autobiography just check his news feed. You haven’t clicked on his profile in…ever, yet he dominates your Recently Updated Friends like the ‘Monstars’ on Bill Murray.
Guy Who Shows Abs in All His Pictures
There he is–yet another profile picture updated–with his black tank top pulled up showing his abs off while making a kiss face (not the band, like actually a kissing face, although face paint would be better). Hey, he worked hard for those abs, what with all the sit-ups, leg raises, egg whites, and Hydroxycut–but do we need to see them in every picture? At this point, there should be an album just for the abs–abs at the beach, abs on a rollercoaster, abs at the bar, abs at baby cousin Mikey’s Baptism. They dominate your news feed like Hip Hop Abs dominates weekend television.

Guy Who Pokes You
Poking is to Facebook as the typewriter is to the computer world. It’s a forgotten language, like Latin. You caught Guy Who Pokes You’s eye though, and instead of messaging you, writing on your wall, sending you a bumper sticker, commenting on your photos, sending you a gift, or inviting you to add an application (this sentence is certifiable pathetic), he poked you. Now you have to return poke right? Except he poked back, and now you’ve been in a 2 year poke war with the guy who was your high school field hockey teammate’s boyfriend. Poke back my child, poke back.
Guy Who Tags You In Pictures You Didn’t Even Know Existed
Sometimes you’ll head out to the bar and meet up with friends unexpectedly, almost like an impromptu high school reunion. Sometimes you take pictures with these people, laugh-off a few beers, and go home thinking ‘that was fun’. And sometimes you are standing next to this group of people, only one of which you went to school with, and even he wasn’t really your friend just the guy who got off four bus stops before yours. He got the side of your head in one shot that night, and faster than you can say ‘remove tag’ he’ll be posting the 6th grade class picture. Cool turtleneck by the way.

and at #1…
Guy Who You’ve Never Really Met
One time you went to the mall with your friend Jill, and she ran into a friend from high school who worked at Starbucks and who rang you up for a Grande Mocha Latte. You never talked to him, remained in full text mode on your phone, and barely grazed his hand when he gave you the thirty cent change you were owed. Three hours later he ‘add requested’ you on Facebook, now you get to look at his brooding status updates every 16 minutes. He knows your favorite caffeinated beverage and has his blackberry programmed to remind him when your birthday is. Please change the privacy settings for your Facebook profile, stat.

In the race for the top of the social networking heap (which some might compare to the Special Olympics, since even if you win…), Facebook now trails Myspace by only 8% in terms of worldwide traffic according to February comScore data:

Facebook continues to close rapidly on MySpace’s visitor total: At 100.7 million uniques in January, Facebook is now just about 8% smaller than MySpace’ 109.3 million. A year ago, MySpace’s worldwide lead was nearly 4x.

In fact, Facebook already has Myspace beat in terms of daily unique visitors, as shown by the helpfully CTRL+C-ed chart above. Personally, I don’t really get what all the fuss is about Facebook. But I’m also the guy who tried to defend Friendster back when Myspace was the new hotness, so basically, I’m a fucking idiot.

let it out…

With the (not so sudden) surge in popularity among social networking sites (i.e. myspace, facebook), came a sense of insincerity among “friends.”

Now, you can express your hatred a la applications such as enemybook, or sites like hatebook and snubster!

These sites are perfect stomping grounds for misanthropes, curmudgeons and “anyone who happens to have a serious distaste for a person or persons.”

Facebook currently boasts roughly 59 million users, while snubster has about 16,000 users worldwide.