Do you REALLY need that many social networks?

Myspace is really great for one thing: music. It has revolutionized the music scene. Especially the independent music. There used to be lots of spam on Myspace, but it seems to have died out.

 

Facebook is really for keeping in touch with current friends. I agree that it is better to talk to people in person, but sometimes you want to express things to a lot of people and you just don't want to call every single friend from random parts of the country. For example, your status on FB can be like

"...WTF how can the Rockets lose a game like that???"

then after that all your friends comment and discuss why the Rockets gave it up in the last 2 minutes and have this running dialogue. I have friends who live in every part of the country for college/work and FB has definitely made us communicate better and comment on random aspects of our lives.

 

I was under the impression that xanga was one of the older ones?


Anyway, had an old xanga, years back... lost touch with my friend that got me into it, then re-upped it recently... but that was after:

I got a myspace. I kinda liked everything about it until every game app in America was suggested to me. I picked up a habit of some of the stupid games like Pirates, Mafia Wars, Special Forces... but I hardly check any except Pirates, and that's about once a week or so now. How many fake billions in gold can you make by doing nothing? And who cares any more?

So, then I was talked into twitter (it is kinda cool since it's just one liners)... and I check it everyday for it's convenience. It's also like a quicker snapshot of my closest online buddies that I know are really interweb buffs/tech geek types.

And this week I got a facebook, because of the same friend that got me into xanga years back.

And I realize that 100% of my combined interweb buddies from other sites and services are ALL on facebook.

Conclusion: myspace is for the short attention span having, graphically insane, music overloaded, show all my fave videos people - so high schoolers and high schoolers at heart basically.

xanga is for the writers (like live journal)

twitter is for the I-need-validation-every-second-of-my life crowd (and some of my friends on there seem to be that type-even more than I am).

facebook is the most complete balance of all of it, sans the business of tons of vids and music and graphics blaring at you and cause near seizures.



I have all four still, though I really only look at fb and twitter every day now.

 

I have: myspace, facebook, and hi5

hi5: the first one I got in, its very popular here in Mexico, I rarely log in
myspace: I got an account, but I never log in
facebook: I got one, and is the one I most look, but I rarely update my profile, I used to play some games there.

 

Regardless, don't accept the invite. You don't want that eerie phone call right after you've accepted.

I mean, 7 days? What the hell was that supposed to mean?

 

I'm going to ditch one of them really soon... maybe xanga.

 

you mustve seen one of my status'

 

I am on Face Book, and FanIQ

DD

 

Indeed, I did.

Aside, I keep forgetting you are you, thanks for the reminder. You should change your moniker, though I guess Member #19 and 35k posts is something you don't kick to the curb.

 

i don't know why we didn't discuss that. if you're vdp's age, you may remember my sister(s).

 

Yep, VDP and I are roughly same age. If I remember correctly, he told me who your sister is and I had many classes with her. She's cool peeps for sure. If I remember correctly, that is.

 

Hey, it's HIS sister... mb you don't know, but it's been a couple of decades and then some, so not only would I not have any pics from that long ago, but as the thread has shown, I'm not big on the social 'catchup' sites, so ...

no pics here, home-bre-skillet. YOU gtfo! ¡Se me olvidó, que te olvidé!

 

Here's Joey Dorsey's facebook If anybody wants to add him as a friend. He will gladly accept.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1510423237&ref=ts

 

Nicely done, sir. You win my telling you again that I don't really dig on the social networks.

Yeah, I have a myspace so I can keep up with blogs by bands I'm into, and someone talked me into a linkedin thing a long while ago, but I don't keep up with any, post pics, update my status, or send and receive friend updates pics etc.

 

Other than recommendations from several friends, the reason I got on myspace & other places-

If for whatever reason in her own mind a hot girl WANTS to add me cuz she sees something she likes there, why am I to say no to that? What point is being proven "keeping it real (life)" going out with a bunch of real life average when a more attractive option is out there. And the real life options have myspace too. Thats kinda where keeping it real goes wrong

Big problem with that is on the same profile my parents and respected family members are on, having a bunch of loose tramps and trollops whoring around on the same profile for them to see. So thats where Facebook comes in handy, got my clean family & friends page there and myspace stays the slut page.

 

The sites are for people who prefer to "hook up" online first it seems. They seem pointless to me. My wife created a Facebook account for me just so she can have "Married to <my name>" on her page. Stupid.

Any people I'm friends with, I talk to outside of a social networking site. Any people I have professional ties to, I'm going to use a phone or email to communicate with, not a "social networking" site.

I find that social networking sites cause problems for people in relationships. I mean really...what are they for outside of single people trying to hook up with other people? What happened to the days of just saying what's up to someone in instant messaging...I mean in person haha.

 

I got a myspace and facebook. If someone sends me a request I accept or write me I will write back.

That is about it.