| WWW | Facebook |
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Number of users: | A couple of billions | a few tens of millions |
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Ability to create your | | |
own applications | Yes | Yes |
within the system? | | |
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Ability to let others | Up to users choice | Default option |
earn from your work: | | |
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Available programming | All of them really | HTML and some zero's |
languages: | | |
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Ability to announce | Up to users choice | Core functionality |
who your friends are: | | |
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Ability to link | Up to users choice | Why use it otherwise? |
to your friends? | | |
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Instant messaging: | Yes | No |
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Email: | Yes | No |
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Chat: | Yes | No |
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Ability to annoy | | |
others with | Up to users choice | Yes |
announcements of | | |
cute' applications? | | |
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User licence: | None | [...] and your grannys |
| | bungalow. |
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Playable games: | Yes, wide range |Yes, Chess and Scrabble |
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Tied to one operator? | No (not yet) | Yes |
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| Free exhange of | To gloat how many |
Main purpose: | information | people claim to know |
| | you. |
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Porn: | Yes, see rule #43 | Some (implied) |
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Causes unsexiness? | No | Yes |
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Contains meaningfull | | |
information: | Yes, all of it. And then | None |
| some. | |
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Typical user profile: | Young, vibrant, supple | Dull, blunt, boring |
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Invites the whole | | |
of humanity to unite | Yes | No?! ... |
in celebration? | | |
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Will probably be | | |
instrumental in forming | | Maybe... where is |
a void so deep the | No | this going?! |
whole of earth will | | |
be destroyed by it? | | |
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Burns your cookies? | No | Right! This table of |
comparisons ends here! |
I will not be insulted
here by some hack of a blogger
who can't even come up with
a proper table! Nobody calls
you because you have no friends!
Yeah! That's right! Read the manual buddy!