What Your Favorite Web Sites Say About You

Jimmy writes to tell us that CNET is running an article on what your favorite Web sites say about you. One example takes a look at the possible origins of Facebook readers; "The typical Facebookers are what you'd get if YouTube and Flickr went halves on a baby. Yes, the site was created to help university students connect and have a good time, but connecting and having a good time generally involves unruly, drunken behavior, which is inevitably caught on film and posted for your entire friends list to see.'" The article also takes a look at eBay, Flickr, Slashdot, and several others.

Target Audience

[psychicsword]

Every site has its target audience just like almost every corporation does. All this seems to be doing is defining the target audience. If Slashdot's website wasn't based on "News for Nerds stuff that matters" then I bet there would be less geeks and nerds on this site... that is what digg is for.

The website doesn't make your personality your personality choses to revisit the website.

Re:Not very interesting....

[SatanicPuppy]

Oh come on, it's obviously tongue in cheek.

Did you read the bit about CNET?


CNET.co.uk attracts a wide variety of users but they almost always have one thing in common: they're gorgeous. Oh, and they like technology. Sure, they use MySpace, Facebook and once, misguidedly, even created a Twitter account (but they're sorry for that last part).

They're the best sort of people to be around. They're highly educated, well-travelled and they possess the sort of qualities every mother tries to instil in her child. They'll one day go on to broker world peace, cure the incurable and are the very reason we wake up for work in the mornings. They're great and we love them all. Even the ones who think we sold them something and ring us up to complain.

Don't start trying to fact check a joke piece...Unless you're doing some meta-humor by living up to their "Suspicion and Pedantry" snark.

Re:Not very interesting....

[Jennifer York]

The reason this gets posted is because it's a list. The fscking "List" format blog posts are driving me mad.
"10 ways to..."
"6 not so smart cats"
"30 things to do with..."

The structure is so simple: The headline hook writes itself, and the content can be complete horseshit but once it hits digg, you've got a front page post.

I challenge you to try it: go to flickr, grab ten random photos based on a meta tag. Assemble them in a list, with perhaps some witty comments, but even that's not needed. Get five friends to digg it.

Wait for the traffic storm to hit.

Re:So...

[Kelson]

So, this is saying if you join a community/website then you are probably inclined to be interested or involved in whatever the subject matter that site is.

Actually, it's describing a caricature of each site's target audience. It's more of a humor piece than anything else.

Re:Missing entry: 4chan.org

[Anonymous Coward]

Rules 1 & 2...

Slashdot is more diverse

[athloi]

They hunt like spiders, awaiting the arrival of an article from their victims -- usually a hapless news reporter. The second moderators accept a story, they pounce -- pedantry, suspicion and anonymity their weapons of choice.

I know you're just doing it for the laughs, guys, but that's short-sighted. Slashdot is one of the more diverse (in terms of opinions, not genetics and gender) web sites I've run across, much more so than myspace, for example. Libertarian Christians and Mac-using bisexual Buddhists can agree on the necessary traits for any BIND replacement here without much rancor.

I think the article sells it short.