It seems like every year, there is some new technological communication avenue.
Myspace began in 2003, and now has approximately 106 million accounts. I’m on there. However, before today, I don’t remember the last time I logged in. I set up an account because my oldest friend, Bill, is in the Air Force, and it’s a convenient way to keep in touch with him when he’s globetrotting. Well, he has been back in the states for a year now, so I don’t really use Myspace anymore. Another problem? I just don’t have the time to really take advantage of all the “cool” features. These are the features that you put on your Myspace page that differentiates you from the other everyone else (the 105,999,999 others!). These features make YOU UNIQUE! I’ve decided to be a really unique Myspace user…by not going there anymore.
The other issue I had with Myspace: every time I visited my friends’ or family members’ pages, I’d have to reach for the Imitrex. It seemed liked almost everyone had such garish, obnoxious pages (not you, of course—you know who you are)… It may have been an age thing, I thought. I’ll be 40 in August, and really no longer have the need to be garish or obnoxious; millions of people over forty on Myspace would disagree, I’m sure. No matter—this is MY blog.
At any rate, I was happily not social networking when FACEBOOK comes along. Around the same time, I hear on NPR and see on NBC that Facebook is considered the “Myspace for adults…” Okay, that is very incendiary statement (which is not necessarily the opinion of this blogger), as it calls to the floor not the age of the subscriber, but the maturity level. So, I go on to Facebook… and like it! It actually works! Friends and acquaintances from life experiences past have contacted me. Two of my sisters and most of my close friends are on it. It’s not garish. It’s not too obnoxious. I did see a steroids ad, but that better than a penis enlargement ad…But, of course, it’s not perfect (but, NOTHING is). Check out this little blurb from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook%23Connectu.com_lawsuit
That being said, find out for yourself. Go here: http://www.facebook.com/
Tomorow, that right, Denny and Josie, TOMORROW: Do you Tweet?
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Hey Ant, I wonder how old I was when this song came out.... Since I just established a FB account on Friday I will be the first to agree with you that yes indeed, FB is Myspace is for adults. There is no need to do silly things like "pimp" your page like on Myspace. FB is also specific when it tells you not to add annoying symbols to your name like this : ♥Jenn♥ or annoying displays like ~~yOu Know it!!~♥• I wholeheartdly agree, FB is for adults. Lets all go delete our Myspace pages!
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