Myspace and Facebook

A. I think the users of Myspace and Facebook are a slightly different. Myspace is used by all ages and demographics. It's even used by businesses to advertise. Adults use Mysapce, bands use myspace to get their music out there. Even some senior citizens use Myspace (although not many). Facebook is a bit different. Facebook is more for college and high school students. I'm not sure why, but facebook is mostly younger people and I have'nt seen any artists or businesses on it.

B. I use myspace mostly to check on bands I really like. They all post their tour schedule and I check usually once a week to see if they'll be comming to Chicago anytime soon. There's nothing wrong with using these sites in moderation (which is something a little different for everyone and is hard to put a time on). I think if you logon just to update your status and emoticon, you are using it too much. Some peoples' lives just revolve around updating their myspace and messaging their friends and trying to make as many friends as possible. I'm sure they're are some people (crazy ones) that take other peoples' myspace too personal ("how could you add him to your firends?!" or "You like that band?!?!"). Some people feel they have to comment on every little addition to their friends page. Sometimes these comments get so out of hand, it's like they're having a conversation.

C. I think myspace and facebook have a lot of pros; like you can find out about local bands, meet people in your school with similiar interests, you can find out about cool events in your area, etc. The biggest problem with myspace and facebook, is that using it too much takes away from real life. All your friends become ones you only know online. It dimishes face to face conversation and with only knowing someone online you don't really know what they are like in real life (because anyone can say anything on myspace). What I find to also be interesting is that some people have 200 or more friends on myspace, when I can't even think of 50 people that I am friends with. There was a survey done a little while ago that said that poeple have about 3 or 4 friends. They re did the survey recently and that number went down a little to 2 - 3. So I think people are adding others to their friends list and almost never meeting these people, or it'll be a person they met once and never saw again.