With MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, and some other "social networking" websites already being the top ones out there, I have also begun to receive messages from people creating accounts and putting my email down to be "THEIR FRIEND" on others such as Hi5, Wayn, Xanga, etc. Some of these sites, mind you, specialize in, say, maybe photo sharing only, blogging only, sharing e-vites only, etc. Others just do the entire thing, and may not even do ONE THING right... To top it off, they take my time away from ClutchFans.net if I join one of those. This site is NOT one of those. Don't group CF.net in there. We share ideas, comments and suggestions, far more than what all those other ones would do. Anyway, my whole point is that there are so many of them out there, people are beginning to lose track of their usernames, passwords, who is a friend in there and whom they met there through another friend, who is their spouse or who is their girlfriend, and gosh forbid they keep only family and friends they've only personally met. I laugh at some of those people. Recently I received an invitation to become friends with some dude I don't even know. I said "no, thank you" and went my way. One thing that pisses me off, though, is how an old friend from either college or high school or even a long-time childhood friend finds your name on that site's search thing, and all they want to do is add you to their friends and NEVER will send you a message or say hello to you personally, but will instead just post a bulletin for everyone to know about how much she hated her shoes at the club the night before. Another bad thing is that when someone adds you to their "friends", all that happens is you will receive lots more SPAM. I don't even update my MySpace or FaceBook. I'm too busy with REAL peeps/friends/coworkers/family to be doing any crap like blogging or posting photos in those sites. I think these sites are working mostly for single peeps, but I know someone will come out and say "Hey, I'm married an I am hooked on [insert your networking site]." It's fine. EDIT: Also, when there is an actual purpose, it's fine... like, for example, you meet some peeps who want to keep you in contact with them after meeting them at a fund-raising dinner or something, you know? How many networks do you belong to, and have you noticed what I've noticed?
Joined both Facebook and Myspace about 10 days ago to check them out because my son wanted a Myspace account. So far in my very limited experience, Facebook seems like it's 10x better. Your comments about spam are troubling and I'll quit both of them if it becomes a problem. Neither is important to me at all.
I have a myspace account, but haven't even looked at it in probably a year or more. I think I still have a LinkedIn account. I keep getting emails from friends who say, "If you join Facebook, you'll get to see everybody from back home." I email them back and say, "If I wanted to connect with these people, I would call them. I don't, so I don't." I keep in touch with the people I want to keep in touch with.
I have accounts to MySpace, Facebook and LinkedIn. I decline any invitations to any other social networking. I don't even use LinkedIn and barely using MySpace now. I like Facebook better so I use it everyday to connect to people that I don't see regularly. To some people, it's just COOL to have a bunch of social networking sites.
i have accounts in xanga, myspace, facebook but i dont use any of it, i made it to stalk a girl a couple years ago
Zero. I know my friends and family and speak to them daily. Often, with my mouth. And I hate reunions, chances are if we are not in touch, there is a reason. Also via la Clutchfans!
Facebook and here. I use facebook to keep in touch with theatre people I've worked with and potential patrons for shows I'm working on. I've got in touch with people I never thought I would again. Some good - some bad.
Personally, I've been amazed at how Facebook has completely killed myspace this year. I put up a myspace account about 3 years ago, and it was fun. I'd receive a message or a comment or friend request nearly every day, and it was fun reconnecting with folks. It stayed that way for some time, although it seemed to slow down in 2008. Then my sister said she and my brothers were on Facebook, so I set up an account there around August or so. And now that site gets a new message or comment or friend request just about every day. Myspace meanwhile, has tumbleweeds running across it. It seems I get nothing but spam messages and comments on there these days. My question is why did this happen? Has anyone else noticed this?
I've noticed this. I was using MySpace regularly until Facebook improved their layout. I'm not sure what to explain this phenomena. I guess it started when Facebook opened to everyone, instead of people with college e-mails.
Yep it does look like Facebook has won the war vs. Myspace. I have a personal Myspace site that I almost never use anymore, maybe check it once a week at most. (Sorry Akperez and Pasox2, I will try to say hi soon.) I just got Facebook about a month ago and was dragged into it because people would send me event invites and I wouldn't get them, instead of just sending me an email or a call. I check it only about once a day and could frankly care less that "so and so is listening to Coldplay while drinking a latte." I still use my band's myspace site though and think for music info Myspace is much better than Facebook. I also have a Linked In and Plaxo account that I never use but will accept friend request from people I know so I don't seem rude but I will tell them I never use those accounts.
I have a plaxo but never used it at all.... i have a myspace...i used that for a little bit but not hardly bother with it, i probably check it 1-2 times a week. facebook....i started an account years ago when i was in school and its brand new...there werent people on there everyone was using myspace at the time so i didnt bother at all with it. i mainly IM'ed people to talk to them...now everyone and their mom has a facebook and my old account is there but unused i at this point dont even want to bother with a facebook account it just seems like too much trouble and time to go through it all. also i am not a huge fan of having my life of the interwebs like that....even my myspace page is mainly rockets stuff....facebook seems more personal in that regard.
I'm on facebook mostly. Only check myspace when checking someone's page out or some request comes in. Facebook has a more organized interface and keeps me up to date with all my buddies that I don't get a chance to talk to much.
This is no different than back in the days where people made "family home pages" on yahoo or AOL. I think its a nice tool to find people you haven't talked to in years. What I don't understand is how some live on it and use it for their means of communication and fill out those repetitive surveys day in and day out.
Myspace fell off because of the layouts and spam. People left to their own devices made their pages so unreadable. Almost every account looked like Homer Simpson's first home page. Facebook has a consistent look. Less about personalization and more about content. You can focus on what your friends are up to, instead of the animated gifs and distracting wallpaper they like. And all the content is much more organized. I think the new Facebook layouts also curbed the distracting games and widgets (or whatever the hell they're called). It was steering into Myspace territory for awhile there.
I use facebook pretty extensively recently. Myspace seems like it was written for 14 year old girls and struggling musicians, and it really annoys me, although I do have an account... I have a LinkedIn account, but I don't really use it much.
I've been meaning to delete my myspace account, I've just been too lazy. I haven't checked it in over a year, and rarely check my Facebook. I used to use Myspace a lot to keep in touch with my friends from Saudi, and high school in Switzerland. But after all the years....we've pretty much all grown apart and i stopped checking it out.
