Facebook! & Myspace! Yay or Nay.
January 21, 2009
First of all,
I think that Facebook and Myspace can be a good way for friends and family to connect or even reconnect with each other. It is like having your own little personal world online for all to see. It is a way to broadcast yourself to your friends and others in a good or bad way.
I am a bit older than many of the users who currently have a Myspace and or Facebook account. My ex girlfriend created my Myspace account with no input from myself what so ever. Many of the answers and personal bio she put up I was unaware of and I actually really don’t even care. I made my Facebook account in order to view pictures of some of my friends who where on vacation or traveling fro their jobs. I only seem to check out my pages when I see that someone had sent me a message via my e-mail account. As of lately I have not updated or checked either spaces in a few months.
The times when I do log on and check the pages out I end up spending the time peering into the lives of my friends and checking out their pictures and so on. I also spend that time looking up old friends and acquaintances and just totally tripping out about how we all have moved on and grown up leading our own lives and worlds.
Most of the information listed on the pages in true and nothing is to distorted. Like I said before I really had no hand in creating these accounts so the information listed is not from my brain but from my ex-girlfriends ideas of me and so on. I do think that some people may distort their information in order to appear according to Brad Paisley, “cooler online.” The problem is that you never really get an honest depiction of the people with the accounts because they were created by themselves. The only way to get a good reading about someone is to actually meet them face to face and have a chat because what you read online might not be so true, or they may hide things about themselves.
I am glad that I am not addicted to these sites like so many people are. I know some people who check their pages non stop all day. They have to write messages to friends and check their inbox all the time. I don’t really understand it nor will I ever get the point of checking either of these pages daily or hourly.
But then again I just got a cell phone two years ago with much disgust.
I really can’t think of any more to say about Myspace and Facebook, ahhhhhh.
And that’s all I have to say about that!
Jared
I had not thought of Facebook as a way to share to photos with the family. Also being an “older Student with kids and grandkids it might be easer for us to create a family page and all of share our photos. I wonder if you could password protect the files?
Thanks for the idea.
Greg
As a younger college student I must say I am jealous of your and Greg’s Facebook experiences. Most of my friends use Facebook to plaster pictures of themselves at parties while they are, well, plastered. Most of these friends live in different states and Facebook is the only means we have to look into each other’s lives. I highly doubt they party constantly. I don’t have a MySpace, that just seemed too much. I found it funny your ex-girlfriend set it up for you. My cousin offered to create a page for me. Some people…
It would be very interesting to me to have my husband create a Myspace or Facebook page for me. It would show what attributes he feels are important and show me how he has perceived me, which I hope is fairly thorough considering our long relationship. *smile* Have you gained any insight into how your ex girlfriend thought of you or your personality based on what she created for your page?
I understand the scenario you point out about both not checking your website unless someone has sent you something or those who are constantly on there–checking every hour. It is my personal experience that I tend to be more anxious for response when my brother or nephew are on a communication roll. When I have not heard from them for a significant amount or time, I tend to drop off the Myspace or Facebook planet. Many times, the comments or messages are spam anyway.
Also, love the comment about cell phones! I just learned how to text about two years ago myself. It still requires me decoding some of the shorthand (ttyl, <3, etc.)…I will unashamedly admit I have asked both my brother and nephew what some of those mean, even after pretending I did for some time. *grin*…or should I say
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