Wednesday, October 1, 2008

THING #12 : MySpace Vs. Facebook


View my Facebook page here.
Feel free to add me as your friend!

I have been using Facebook since November 2007, and although I had reservations about setting up such an account, I have never looked back! While some members use this site to send their "friends" messages, post videos and play games (amongst a multitude of other applications available), my primary use has been searching for and reconnecting with old friends from primary and high school, and old work colleagues... as well as keeping up-to-date with the happenings of my "everyday friends", work mates at both VU and Safeway, and some of the students at the university, who have either requested me to be their friend, or who have allowed me to be theirs.
Once you start searching, it's amazing who you can find, demonstrating how small the world really is!

As mentioned, I did have a concern about joining Facebook, and that was to do with privacy- who can see me, or rather- my page. So far I have had no issues, though it does depend on how you set up your account- ie. making it searchable for anyone worldwide to see vs. private, and whom you allow to be your friend.

I did check out MySpace to compare the two- but still prefer Facebook. To me, MySpace looks like one giant photo album... as well as appearing to attract, and cater for a younger demographic.

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