Monday, April 28, 2008

#8 Facebook, MySpace aka Friend Networks

i've been using myspace for about 3 years now, i've found this to be a fun & useful way of enriching my online communications with friends and family - i often upload images to my photo albums, change my profile song to share music with friends, and leave goofy comments on friends' pages. i like myspace. it's omnipresence gets a little irritating sometimes, but i enjoy the simplicity of the interface.

facebook, from my persepctive, is sort of a much ado about not much. i have a facebook profile, but i don't use it much. the facebook interface is a little too busy for me, and unneccesarily complex. i don't want to spend 3 hours learning how to use a social networking site; myspace works just fine for me. all of this stuff about facebook supplanting myspace as the networking tool of choice...i don't know. i'm not really buying it, myself. facebook is a little too complicated for its own good, there are all these bells and whistles on facebook that are supposed to add content to the site, but i find myself look at these widgets, and asking myself "what's that supposed to do?" and then i shrug, log out, and go back to myspace.

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