Comments on: Digg was the best social destination of 2007

Don Reisinger thinks Digg is this year's best social destination. What do you think is the best?

[LKJK]

Typical crap involving MySpace, or Facebook. People who know how to use it (whcih apparently is not the author is this terrible article) DON'T get the crap described. My friends are all...MY FRIENDS. IF you are using MySpace the way that the author described (as I assume the author is) then you have FAR more problems than MySpace. Like having a life. But if you use it intelligently, and have an intelligent circle of friends (again. something Don Reisinger apparently does not) you don't get the annoying backgrounds, etc.

[Cerberus57]

I still visit digg everyday but with a huge chunk of the content being top 10 iphone lists and spam storries made popular through shouts, I find myself at sites like linkbin abd reddit a lot more now.

[td00174]

First of this article pissed me off. But, I'm calming down because I'm having to tell myself that I need to respect your opinions. Which is why I'm going to give you mine.

Secondly, I agree with everything LKJK said.

Bias. That's what best describes this article. Bias. Nothing more.

First off, DIGG? Best? And wait, let me get this straight...you work for a technology company and rely on the results of Compete and Alexa for accurate stats? Psh. CNet management, I've used Digg, Facebook, Myspace, and Slashdot for some time, hire me too so I can pretend to be an expert!!

Facebook is more than strangers poking each other, so don't try to paint that picture. Facebook has an extensive profile privacy setting control panel. You just need to be the tech savvy person you claim to be and actually learn to use them. Genius. And how weak of you to pull the old "pedophiles finding a new avenue to lure children into unwanted circumstances?" It's up to parents to monitor their child's internet use. Don't make this a Facebook issue.

Myspace. I agree with you about the site's sad excuse of page design, but that's about it. While I also detest Myspace, I will say that it's the number one most trafficked website for a reason. Since you seem to care about the community being able to decide on everything on a social website, how come you didn't elaborate on the fact that Myspace is as big as it because users are allowed to choose just about every element of design that goes into their profiles, messages, and various posts/comments.

I'd continue you on with Slashdot, but admittedly I'm not a huge fanatic, probably because I'm not the aforementioned "uber-geek who wants to find out the latest on some of the tech topics that the average person either doesn't care about or has no idea they even existed."

[ivrydov]

At least it's not Reddit. That site has been taken over by anti-Semites.

http://www.root-1.co.il/reddit.htm

[randombits]

@ ivrydov

********. You get anti-semite comments everywhere, including Digg, Youtube and everyplace else... and guess what? They get buried and responded to. There are anti-American comments, anti-Bush comments, anti-everything comments - including anti-Reddit comments...

You could go to any site and pull hundreds of quotes against christians, religion, muslims, americans, mexicans, etc. But the only thing that troubles you are the comments made about Jews - pretty damn hypocritical of you.

These social sites are open to the rest of the world including massive amounts of people from the middle east and surrounding areas. Not saying this is right - just saying that this reflects the world. So the next time you see an anti-jewish comment, respond to it directly instead of whining here.

[ivrydov]

You hit the nail on the head, friend. What are social networking sites supposed to be? This is a new frontier. There's a user agreement at Reddit that's supposed to govern behavior. The only thing that troubles me is that they don't enforce the user agreement or post a new one, saying anything goes. I'm not advocating censorship, but just calling them out to state clearly what kind of game they are playing. In real world real people who insult me or my people to my face get their head bashed in. We're dealing with anonymous cowards here. What I do is not whining, but raising hell everywhere I can about this.

[Danny_Anderson]

Digg I think is the lesser of all the evils out there but the majority of the stories are still crap.

I think a social network should offer you more than the ability to float a story, throw a toaster or poke someone you'd never associate with offline.

That said, it appears that that's exactly what the masses want to do, doesn?t it?

I think sites like www.FindLikeMinds.com have the potential to offer something more personal and meaningful - things that have influenced others. At least you end up gaining something of value from the visit.

Maybe 2008 will be the year for more meaningful social applications?