Myspace V. Same Same

[denieal]

I actually don't live in Sydney now I live in the US, and I am trying to meet some new people before I move out there. I found same same, but do people use this site like Myspace? I don't know if Myspace is as popular in Sydney, but I am assuming it is. What is a good way to meet new people going the online route? :o

[hazyinseptember]

here or www.gaydar.com.au

btw.. i dont live in sydney either ;)

myspace isnt as huge here as it is in the us.. but you get some people still using it

http://www.myspace.com/7549456 = me

[Cheetah77]

Hey denieal, the idea of same same forums and members pagers is so that members can chat and make friends away fromthe sleaze often found on gaydar or gay.com.

This site is promoted as more of a community site whereas those others are pretty much used to pick up although I do know a couple of ppl who have made friends from there, but I would definitely say they are the exception.

Hope this helps!

[Mia F]

I like samesame for exactly that reason Cheetah! Though I have made some good friends off myspace and did meet some cool people through gaydar girls before I moved to Sydney a couple of years ago.

[jasn]

Hey denieal, the idea of same same forums and members pagers is so that members can chat and make friends away fromthe sleaze often found on gaydar or gay.com.

Yes, the Confessions On A Dancefloor lead story isn't remotely sleazy! :)

[jackie87]

ughh MySpace...
prozac for the teens of the noughties

[robbie]

Yes, the Confessions On A Dancefloor lead story isn't remotely sleazy! :)

I wouldn't say that feature is sleazy, more funny... What I LOVE about Same Same is that intellectually minded people are having stimulating discussions which you will never find on the hook up sites.

MySpace is definitely more for the kiddies.

[taylor-dayne]

Yes, the Confessions On A Dancefloor lead story isn't remotely sleazy! :)

oh for godsake, what are we - twelve? this isn't sleazy, it's amusing. a little bit of naughty here and there isn't gonna hurt anyone. we're all adults. the overall tone of this site is far from sleazy...

[robbie]

I actually don't live in Sydney now I live in the US, and I am trying to meet some new people before I move out there. I found same same, but do people use this site like Myspace? I don't know if Myspace is as popular in Sydney, but I am assuming it is. What is a good way to meet new people going the online route? :o

Hey Deneial, if you're trying to make new friends, maybe you should make your profile visible to everyone. There is a "swtich live" checkbox in the edit profile section which will let everyone see it. :)

[jasn]

oh for godsake, what are we - twelve? this isn't sleazy, it's amusing. a little bit of naughty here and there isn't gonna hurt anyone. we're all adults. the overall tone of this site is far from sleazy...

Sure. I put a smiley on the end. For god sakes! Gaydar is funny too, you know. For god sakes!

[denieal]

Thanks for the tip hon. :) I didn't know that I had it set to private. I was wondering why no one was talking to me!

[denieal]

Yeah I'm not a big fan of myspace either, yet I am still on it for some reason.

[denieal]

here or www.gaydar.com.au

btw.. i dont live in sydney either ;)

myspace isnt as huge here as it is in the us.. but you get some people still using it

http://www.myspace.com/7549456 = me
Thanks for the tip about gaydar. com.au. I don't know if it will work as well for me though because I'm not a guy.

[jasn]

http://www.gaydargirls.com.au/

[denieal]

Awesome

[Aries Fairy]

What's the general vibe on Gaydargirls.com.au from the girls point of view?

[taylor-dayne]

gaydar's on the way out anyway.

[alison87]

Gaydargirls was okay a few years ago, but then they changed it all up and made it hard to send messages and stuff and i've never really been back since. Samesame is a much, much better format. Also there's boys here too, which is nice.

[jasn]

Gaydar will eventually fade out unless they start actively developing it

But so far it doesn't really have close a contender. Gay.com is too restrictive by its payment model. SameSame is nice, but some of it's features are underdeveloped - and somehow having an average of 10 currently online NSW users doesn't match gaydar's 1161 ;)

I think people just love to moan about gaydar in the same way they moan about oxford street. It's a quick and easy way to appear "above it all" ;)

[Christian Taylor]

yes, it's true we don't have the numbers yet, but they're consistently climbing... gaydar exploded in australia, and who knows what's around the corner for us?

we do have some great developments coming, and what i think same same's strength is, is that it's a space for everyone to come to - and it's linked to a real voice and a real movement offline as well as on.

[Junior]

It's hard to compare SS to Gaydar because they both serve very different needs (or should I say desires). Same Same is full of early adopters at the moment but the stats are showing that the word is starting to spread. I say enjoy the peace and serenity while you can because it won't last for long :)

Interestingly SS is growing significantly faster than inthemix and FasterLouder did at the same stage of development. ITM has 110,000 members now! Fast forward a year or two and I bet we'll be reminiscing about the good old days when the original SS forum posters discovered this place and how it's not the same now its full of all these newbies...

[Tim D]

Well said Junior, we're completely different websites and it's very strange to lump us together Jasn.

[timmeyboy]

I like this site, it's like having a secret place that no one else does, and it's good to speak with the same people and talk about normal things,
I kinda don't want it to explode, I don't want it to become "Another Gay Site" and have the current atmosphere ruined by those that only want one thing...i hope that it does increase but not so much that it becomes faceless......

[jasn]

Yeah true. I was just commenting cos people always bag out gaydar. There was even a cover story that had a swipe at gaydar. Not that I paticularly care, but gaydar is certainly the market leader.

[Aries Fairy]

Shouldn't this be Facebook vs Same Same now?

[howlinbelle]

What's the general vibe on Gaydargirls.com.au from the girls point of view?
I've never really used it gaydargirls. I think its a little sleazy. Pink Sofa is much better. I have made several friends through this site.

[taylor-dayne]

gaydar's good for cock. and maybe it's good for puss too? [you'll have to ask the ladies about that.] they are international too. and i'd be lying if i said i hadn't had some fun through gaydar... but it also sucks you into it in a really big way - in the end i just had to get rid of my profile cos eveytime i was online i'd be checking it every five minutes.

it's a big time waster... if it wasn't ruining our scene then i wouldn't have such an aversion to it. but then again, there's more at play with our scene than just gaydar...

[Tim D]

Has anyone else noticed the noticeable migration from Myspace to Facebook?

Given the speed at which these things take off and are the flavour of the week, the question is really, what's next after Facebook? Bebo?

[drmoreau]

Has anyone else noticed the noticeable migration from Myspace to Facebook?

All I can say is, thank god for the Myspace -> Facebook migration.
Myspace is so slow and clunky on my computer. Plus it fails to load pages half the time.

Who knows what the next fad will be? I guess there will have to be some sort of saturation point of social networking sites...

[avoninski]

Facebook is definitely getting more and more popular in Aus. I've noticed a number of friends recently join it, as you can personalise your page and move things around, which makes it pretty popular. That said, there are just too many groups on it now that it seems harder to navigate, and many of the groups are just shite or flame other people. Orkut was great for awhile a few years back, and then it was taken over by Brazillians and half of all threads were in Portuguese.

I think samesame should do well as its tight and focussed.

[Tim D]

Thanks Avoninski, I think communities that are built around a common interest - as Same Same is - will fare a whole lot better in the long term as it's not just a fad.

There was a fascinating article in the SMH this week about this.


Young people use these communities to meet people, but they move on very quickly. "To them, an online community is like a nightclub. When the club becomes too popular you're out of there, because the cost of moving from one to another is nil."

Last year he attracted the ire of News Corporation by predicting the eventual downfall of MySpace.

"They won't be able to hang on to their teenagers, because teenagers move on. It's not a criticism, it's a product of being too successful. The people on MySpace with 500 friends, rather than looking incredibly popular, were starting to look desperate and pathetic. Facebook is the 'newer nightclub' and does well, but I think it ultimately faces the same fate."

You can read the full thing here: http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/hooked-on-the-net/2007/07/16/1184559704099.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1

I'm all for social networks, but it's amazing to see the speed at which something becomes popular, and then unpopular again in the same breath. Ahhh, the modern world.

[Junior]

Yep, the tide has most definitely begun to swing away from myspace. As soon as Kevin Rudd got a profile it was in trouble ;)

I agree with you Tim D. The foundation on which myspace was created seems a bit superficial and therefore fadish. If a social network is focused on a common, real world interest (like GLBT, Music, Sport etc.) things that will continue on forever more then it will always be relevant... It will be interesting watching it all unfold!