Does fanpop want to get more people on fanpop?

NO.

Fanpop is trying to make a design more up to date like in almost every other popular website, not only facebook.

Blue is good for websites because it was proven it's a soothing, calming color.

Yes they are copying a little bit facebook but they're simply trying to make this website better for us and that's it.

That's not the reason they updated this site.
The F4 changed the layout to update this site. For no other reason did they do so.
Facebook and Fanpop are TWO. DIFFERENT. SOCIAL NETWORK SITES. And y'know what else? Facebook is no different than any other social network site. Y'know what other sites have like buttons? Oh, I don't know, Tumblr, Yahoo, Google+, ETC. Y'know what other social networking sites use blue? Tumblr, Twitter, etc.
Bitching and whining about how Fanpop is trying to compete against Facebook isn't going to do SHIT. They're not competing with Facebook. You want to say they're competing against Facebook? You're going to have to include all those other social network sites I've include. Because guess what? They're in the same business as Facebook

I feel like I've ranted about this ten billion times now, but I guess I'm just going to have to keep doing so long as people complain about this bullshit.

NO they are not.

Oh god no. Please, fanpop doesn't need any more people. I like that no one knows about it...

I don't think so.

Maybe so. Yo, Fanpop - there are these cool rectangular things on websites. They're called ADS. MAKE ONE. Jeez.