With American car companies and financial insitutions going down the toilet, it’s nice to know that at least some companies stateside CAN compete after all…
American Internet social networking companies MySpace and Facebook are beating Cyworld in their home turf per today’s KT. It’s a bit ironic considering that two years ago it was Cyworld that was thinking of taking the U.S. by storm and poured millions into opening an English language site. However, most people in the states, other than gyopos and some Asian Americans, just couldn’t understand such asianified concepts like ”minihompies,” acorn currency or silly cartoon avatars.
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oh come on! I have a cyworld!!!
Even though I’m a gyopo… I think cyworld is gay.
Chiamatt, don’t use the MH to shamelessly increase hits to your cyworld page…
Cyworld is even more awful than myspace, which is impressively bad. Who thought it would be a good idea to have profile pages that auto-play music or video?
Facebook shows your birthday. Cyworld shows your zodiac sign.
Punk’d? That can’t be the verb you want to use here.
1. A way to describe someone ripping you off,tricking you, teasing you
2. While detained in a prison or jail, to be raped by a fellow inmate.
3. When you make fun of someone so bad they have nothing else to say back.
http://www.urbandictionary.com
Cyworld requires you to jump through a series of hoops, including signing up with your guv’mint ID number, no? This is a problem that many Korean sites have. Agree with #1 that it is ghey, too.
facebook is pissing everyone off I know with this new design they brought on. Ugh… it looks like someone puked Cyworld on Myspace, then proceeded to make a crème brûlée out of it.
I think it’s great to see Koreans escaping from the Korean Net. I wonder what will happen when people find out that they can write pretty well whatever they want on American sites with anonymity from Korea’s archaic libel laws.
“couldn’t” or wouldn’t, i.e., didn’t care too?
Creating “software” (of all sorts) that appeals across national/cultural lines is difficult for everyone, but (let’s face it)
the frogs contemplating their navels in the well have a much longer way to go than most.
Good, cyworld is freakin annoying.
There are different Cyworlds: the Korean cyworld and one in the U.S. and others. If one has a U.S. cyworld account, they can not send messages to Korean cyworld members, thus cyworld is an intra-network and an anachronism in this day and age.
I notice there are other attempts to regulate content in Korea too, such as with Flickr, which has content filters that only apply for Korea and China. This is most likely an attempt on the part of Korean Government to control internet content in Korea.
6. For foriegners, Cyworld makes you sign up with your passport number. There are ways around that though. I signed up with an American Cyworld they don’t require that. Another thing I found funny was on Arirang’s site. If you want to watch Arirang you have to sign up. For foriegners, they have two sign ups, foriegners in Korea and foriegners overseas. For Korea residents they require your Alien I.D. number. For overseas people they don’t. I tried registering honestly on one, but I didn’t want to give that information, so I just regestered on the other.
I encountered sites before that wouldn’t let me sign up with a foreign ID so I got on emule and searched for 주민등럭번호. Got a list of about 300, only about 10% of which worked but it still got me in.
Good tip, I don’t really want to see Korean porn that badly though.
Aren’t these myface sites for self-indulgent types like pre-teen girls and queers?
Is Al Gore aware of how much fuel is used power and cool these sites? There’s an environmental initiative I’d support.
15. Facebook isn’t as immature as the others. I enjoy playing chess on there against a number of people I know and have found the “people you may know” feature to be an interesting way of connecting with those I haven’t spoken to in decades.
#8 BumSuk: If you’ve ever had the “pleasure” of slogging through the Korea-Japan-China war of comments on youTube, you’d know they’ve already discovered this.
Most people in the states do understand the asiafied concepts you mention. They understand them as retarded cutesy crap that their 6-year old would laugh at.
The dipshits at Cyworld could’ve saved themselves tens of millions by hiring me as their US consultant. Instead they paid some stateside gyopos who blew smoke up their ass with “Everybody loves Korea style! We’ll take over the world!” bullshit.
PRICELESS, IHBB: Any American teenager that sets up a dumbass minihompie, decks it out with pink sofas and other ridiculous Cycrap, and then sends a link to their friends…will be ostracized as being gayer than a bag of dicks.
I think a lot of the staff that Cyworld hired for their U.S. operations where techy, metrosexual white guys and equally metrosexual Asians. I don’t know how many gyopos were involved, but I don’t think it was as many as you might have thought. Just FYI.
Nothing’s gayer than a bag of dicks, not even Cyworld. Fact!
21. A Prada bag of dicks and shaved balls?
As a lark, I looked up “bag of dicks” in the Urban Dictionary, and by god, there’s an entry. Do you browse that website in your free time looking for trendy phrases to impress your barmates?
I am so sad. When I imagine “a bag of dicks”, I think of buying baguettes.
On topic though, my major complaint about Cyworld is the fact I could not log into the Korean cyworld site unless I had the ID number and did all the registration in Korea. See this earlier link for more.
This is so Worthless to turn the internet into a Korean-only or American-only club but that is what SK did.
When I see “a bag of dicks”, I immediately thought of this: Shit! Where’s my penis?!
Now I kinda wish the whole Cyworld thing worked out… we could have seen a history in the making.
Closed platform(Cyworld) can’t compete with open platform(Facebook). Countless applications would be added to Facebook for users amusements where Cyworld couldn’t lead the users needs anymore with its limitation.
A lot of techy, metrosexual white guys? The article I linked to describes the staff: 8 Korean transplants and 14 local hires, MOST OF THEM ASIAN-AMERICAN. So FYI, until I see something from you that contradicts that profile, we’ll go ahead and chalk this up as another instance of you being wrong. FYI.
Free advice Sonagi, since you always seem to be a little behind the curve: Less Matlock, more It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. I wrote that post 2 years ago, and at that time the phrase was already spent.
Considering that WangKon936 took a pro-Korean line when he started commenting, I find it strange that he’s taking a line that is critical of Korea. And that after he became a guest blogger.
As for Cyworld, well me thinks the management at SK Networks was delusional when it set up Cyworld USA and thought that it could succeed in the U.S.
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