What is the attraction to myspace or facebook?

lukin2006

Nice photos

jlew24asu wrote:

I use it to keep in touch with friends who I went to college with. I went to an out of state college and have friends who live all across the country.

I also use it to promote my photography. its free networkiring and advertising.


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http://www.myspace.com/chicagophotoshop

lukin2006

I started using to reconnect with old friends that we lost touch after high school and college

xscorcho

i use facebook to keep in touch and reconnect with old friends... i love it... i love that ppl can post up pictures... they are much more fun to look at then to read an email!

lukin2006

But I have found that a lot of people I know can not be found or don't want to be found. For some strange reason I find guys seem more willing to re connect than females and here I thought it would be the other way around. Interesting.

Heineken Helen

Vedd Hedd wrote:

But for people to keep in touch.....thats what email and cell phones are for...in my world anyway.

To me, its almost like an open faced email page that the entire world could see.

facebook is actually more sociable than phones or emails I find. And you can have a thread between friends rather than getting a new email every time somebody replies... and also someone may just click 'reply' rather than 'reply all' and emails can get messy. Phones are costly and you can't have threads

You can set your facebook to private where only your friends can see.

glasshouse

i refuse to be part of face book and myspace.

why?
p-r-i-v-a-c-y is p-r-i-c-e-l-e-s-s to me
savvy?

Buru

hmm... it's good to keep in tough with friends/aquaintances overseas
and to share pics (facebook)
And it makes you look cool.


what has started to bug me about facebook is the gazillion of applications it has...

lalalalaaaaaaaa

Keep in touch w/ distant friends

Organize parties

Self-expression

Urban Hiker

in_hiding79 wrote:

I don't have one...I thought it was for high schhol and middle school kids...but all my nieces and nephews have them and they are in College...shows how much I know!!

HAHA! My dad and I use myspace to keep in touch with each other. I'm 33 and he's 63.

I like the self-expression part. I also like to see what other people are into, see what other cool organizations are out there that I may not otherwise find on my own.

The band updates are awesome.

Besides, I HATE PHONES, I usually avoid in person contact with people and it's even less formal than personal email. In email, I feel like there should be some worthwhile content, but on myspace or facebook I can send just a quick hello or some silly comment without expecting any sort of response.

BinFrog

Keep in touch with friends

Find people with the same interests to talk about stuff with

Let people know a little about you

Post pictures to share with friends and family

Cathartic postings (blogging, etc)

Time waster


All good reasons I think.

GreenTeaDisease

I have a my space page that I haven't touched in well over a year.

for me it's too much to keep up with. For one thing I'm always too lazy to upload photos.

MookieBlaylock5v1

The value of MySpace to bands for networking and marketing purposes is priceless.

Plus, I like keeping in touch with people from my hometown.

PJPOWER

Life can get busy and you can lose track of your friends that move around a lot...It's just a good easy way to stay in touch.

justam

Vedd Hedd wrote:

I'm not necessarily slamming anybody who has a myspace or facebook page.

But I am curious as to why people do have them. Any of you who have either, can you shed some light on this for me? Just a forewarning, I will be combative.:)

But I honestly don't get it.

I think it's the pictures.

There's no way I'd let my teenage son join it though...

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Vedd Hedd wrote:

Better make sure your new employer doesnt google you and see your site and find something wrong with it and not hire you.

I don't understand the obsession with MySpace and only recently even heard of Facebook.

There are these 3 doctors where I work, though, who obviously want to maintain very professional public images but all have MySpace accounts for their personal lives. Two of them have private profiles, but they post on the public profile of the third. They have no idea (not until I recently told one of them anyway) that half the office staff are reading their posts - which say things like "You're always getting wasted and leaving your pants at my house" - and making assumptions that they're sleeping together and spreading rumors about them throughout the office. I hope their patients aren't reading this too.

Hinny

Vedd Hedd wrote:

I'm not necessarily slamming anybody who has a myspace or facebook page.

But I am curious as to why people do have them. Any of you who have either, can you shed some light on this for me? Just a forewarning, I will be combative.:)

But I honestly don't get it.

It's a bloody lot cheaper way to stay in touch with my international friends than to pick up the phone. If it's just the one person, from the other side of town, clearly I'll call them. I barely ever facebook with the people on my list who are fellow Sydneysiders. But then there's friends across the wide brown land of Aussieland, in Korea, a whole bunch of European countries, North, Central and South America... the phone bill would kill me.

And it's a bit more personal and interactive than emailing or on message boards.

South of Seattle

Hinny wrote:

It's a bloody lot cheaper way to stay in touch with my international friends than to pick up the phone. And a bit more personal and interactive than emailing or on message boards.

exactly

Vedd Hedd

Hinny wrote:

It's a bloody lot cheaper way to stay in touch with my international friends than to pick up the phone. If it's just the one person, from the other side of town, clearly I'll call them. I barely ever facebook with the people on my list who are fellow Sydneysiders. But then there's friends across the wide brown land of Aussieland, in Korea, a whole bunch of European countries, North, Central and South America... the phone bill would kill me.

And it's a bit more personal and interactive than emailing or on message boards.

I can honestly understand the first part of your post. International friends....that makes sense to me.

But the part about it being more personal...I disagree.....its like one of those letter I get from friends that are addressed to everyone. Like a random, "Im going to write one letter to everyone, and that way I feel like Im keeping up."

I hate those, they are so impersonal.


And myspace kinda reminds me of that. Its like saying, "I wont take the time to talk to you personally, so Ill just let everyone look at my myspace and see what I have updated."

TrixieCat

I got rid of myspace. It was too distracting and the only reason I used it was to keep in contact with someone on here when the pit was down. We would be in the middle of a conversation and 5pm came and the curse set in.
So we would meet there.

I got rid of it because it was not the person I am . I was turning into someone I am not. Pictures, blogs, thoughts and feelings. It really is not me. I am more private than that. And the stalking got out of hand.
So I deleted it.

iluvcats

TrixieCat wrote:

I got rid of myspace. It was too distracting and the only reason I used it was to keep in contact with someone on here when the pit was down. We would be in the middle of a conversation and 5pm came and the curse set in.
So we would meet there.

I got rid of it because it was not the person I am . I was turning into someone I am not. Pictures, blogs, thoughts and feelings. It really is not me. I am more private than that. And the stalking got out of hand.
So I deleted it.

so you were the reason I had one less friend recently? my feelings get hurt when someone drops me (which is dumb!) but now I understand.