I have Facebook and LinkedIn. LinkedIn isn't really social networking; it's professional networking. After being on Facebook awhile, I started a Myspace to see what it was like, and it was such a piece of garbage that I closed it within a week. But, I am one of those Facebook users that have reconnected with someone from junior high and not said anything to them. I don't really have the time or energy to rekindle relationships.
Facebook and Myspace. i dont use myspace much at all and i only go on it to check messages. facebook on the other and is what im addicted to other than this site . i think i would like it better if it stayed for ppl with college email addresses with the new layout. but it still cool.
^^^ that. Seriously, I don't get all the social networking site stuff. I mean really, if people wanted to stay in touch, they would, right? All this twitterlinkedinfacebook " What am I doing NOW.... no wait NOW..... ok ok ok NOW what am I doing" business just makes me think that most people find themselves more interesting than they are.
people lose contact with people for a myriad of reasons, not just disinterest. i love facebook for the fact that i've found nearly two dozen of my old college dormmates who i had lost touch with over the years. and myspace for the most amazing girl i could have ever hoped for.
I'm not a loser and don't feel the need to let everybody and anybody know what the hell im doing all the time...I love my privacy therefore I have ZERO.
And that's one of the downsides of everyone switching from myspace to facebook. Myspace is/was great at allowing people to see what you were about without actually knowing you. I went out with a few girls who I met from there. Facebook isn't about that at all. It's much more about finding people you already know. It's a shame that it appears everyone has shifted. Of course, I'm sure there will be another iteration in a couple of years that all the sheep will flock to; myself included.
I received a message from WAYN - Where Are You Now (the travel network), to sign up my email... from one of my old high school friends. I mean, can't she just type a quick email or text message and say: "Hey, SwoLy... what up? Where did you go on vacation last?" It's funny, also, that soon after that, I started to receive email from 'Fox Latina' World.
Good on ya. Point taken. From my perspective? meh. What confuses me more about it, I guess I didn't make clear, is how people seem to focus their lives around it... checking in on such things daily/hourly... and how it seems to encourage "Look at me look at me" all day long with the "What are you doing now" and "Look how many 'friends' I have have mentality they all seem to sport. It just seems very superficial and self centered to me in many ways, but that's not to say I can't see it being useful to some in others.
Joined facebook recently as a lot of friends use it as their way to communicate parties/happy hours/etc.
Myspace is horrific, spam-wise. Lots of friend requests from "girls" who got "so drunk last night" and want you to follow a link to see their pictures.
Myspace got left in the dust when it came to upgrading features and adapting to its market compared to facebook... yet amazingly, its still semi-popular. For every 50 people I know who swear by facebook, there's that 1 person who is just apescat about myspace still... I think they are very odd folks
My little brother is 14 and he just discovered the internet and he's addicted to myspace. I tried to explain to him that myspace sucks now and nobody uses it, but he's naive and can't stop adding random chicks who don't exist.
Myspace is a bunch of musician & celebrity jock sniffing & pretentiousness. A few too many using it as image enhancement being something they're not. People trying to validate their existence having high friends lists counts, Top 8's... I dont actually have much problem with that. To be fair once something becomes the biggest, it'll also have the most enemies and detractors and people trying to tear it down. Facebook had the long term better approach though, making it like a regular directory of people, an enhanced whitepages of the internet. And a good FREE alternative to Classmates.com or Reunion.com. Myspace is more social advertisment through image, Facebook is more the regular social networking. Then there's Bebo.com and all kinda other crap... I have Facebook but dont use it, mostly cuz I DONT like the whole using your real name thing. And like Swoly D mentioned of old contacts adding you without even a hello, thats fine but thats just adult version of Sign My Yearbook. Online version of passing the book around class having the most furthest distant person you never talked to scribble in it
Hahaha, so true. I got onto facebook when it was basically brand-new for our school. Around that same time Myspace was starting to become really popular, but I could not stand Myspace because of all the crap on there that took forever to load. Back then it was basically "Myspace:High school :: Facebook:College". I had a Myspace page at one time, but deleted it years ago. I also deleted my Facebook account for a while, but it is too damn convenient, so I re-registered it. I always hear a lot of people say, "I have real life friends and I talk to them on the phone if I want to talk to them." I guess that's cool, but it is a great tool for staying in touch with people that move away. I have friends in all 4 corners of the United States and overseas, and it is awesome to keep in touch with them through Facebook. These are the type of friends that I have a long history with, but will likely not get to see again unless I am traveling to that area of the country. If I was older, I suppose I would send them Christmas cards every year. I just chatted with my best friend from early high school earlier today (I say early high school because I did HS in two different states). Got to learn that he just got accepted to Ohio State for dental school. It was really nice to catch up with him. Think of it as email, but 10x better. I'm organizing a trip for myself and 5 of my friends for this spring break, I was going to disseminate information to them via email each time I had news about the trip, and then have them "Reply to all" if they wanted to get into a cross-dialogue with everyone. However, I decided to create a private group on facebook for the 6 of us. Now I can post news updates to the entire group, post pictures of the condo we're renting, and we can all talk about the trip and post photos. I'm similar to you in that regard, but I make use of Facebook's security features. I have certain things on my profile that are set to private, and nobody can see them. All my pictures are private. I also never mess with the banner that tells everyone what you are doing because I just don't care.
I dont get it either. I pretty much agree with what you are saying. It just doesn't make sense to me how people are completely obsessed with these sites and will spend anytime possible to check their pages. Its definitely very superficial and self centered. I used to have a Facebook account a couple years ago when it first came out and I deleted it after they came out with the new features like "John posted a message on Jill's wall." I can't stand seeing people on campus always using the computers to just check their Myspace or Facebook crap when other people need to actually use the computers for something more important than seeing when their friends are doing at the moment in time.
I have Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn accounts. LinkedIn is obviously specialized as a business network, so for me it's more akin to Monster than something like Facebook. I never really the touch the thing, and the only reason I would is if I was job-hunting, which I think it may be useful for. MySpace is freaking awful. I definitely get spammed sometimes, etc. The original reason I joined was a lot of extended family members were on there, and besides all of them asking me to join, it was just the easiest way to make sure I always had their contact info. These days, the only reason I keep it is so I can browse profiles of potential roommates who e-mail me through craigslist, to make sure they're not crazy before I actually meet them (I kinda have a rotating roommate thing going on... I can easily pay for my own place, but the extra income doesn't hurt these days...). I literally only ever log on for that purpose, or if I'm notified that one of my *good* friends just posted a blog. Facebook... is awesome. I don't really spend any significant time on there, other than playing Scrabble with a few people. Mostly, I love the photo sharing, and I just love the fact that it's a way to make sure you always have people's contact info (e-mail, phone, etc). It's a good way to organize big get-togethers. Now, there are a few caveats to my Facebook love: first, I don't get how people spend hours on Facebook every day. I just don't get it. I mean, get a life. I spend maybe 2-5 minutes per day on there just checking messages and playing one move in a game of Scrabble. That's it. I just don't see it as a passtime like, say, Clutchfans. The other thing is, you can be damn sure I am NOT friends with anyone I've never met in person. I mean, give me a break. If you need to meet all your friends online, well... you need to get out more. And I'll take that a step further, and say that I don't understand people friending me who I barely know and/or I just don't like. Some kid I carpooled with in freaking gradeschool a billion years ago just tried to friend me. That kid was a massive jerk. I hated him, and he hated me. Now he wants to be friends? Really? Why? Especially since he's in California and I'm in Wisconsin. What's the point? These sites can be good as a supplement to real friendship... they just shouldn't be treated as a REPLACEMENT to real friendship...
I use it to stalk chicks. See what she is up to. She's a teacher at a Klein school, and she has booze in her hand. That's nice.
