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The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent anyone else's view in any way, including those of my employer.
© Copyright 2007
Well, after more than 48 hours our fictional MySpace girl has only 11 friends. We signed up for ten or more “friend trains” and got little to no response. I’m thinking that this is a sign that the “I have a million friends on MySpace” movement has sucked the real interaction out of the site and might mark the eminent demise of the site. On the other hand, maybe the rush to get tons of empty friendships might be what’s actually dying hence the lack of response on the trains. Regardless, I still predict that the new applications on Facebook will make it far more powerful and more useful than Myspace.
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I’d vote for the latter. I routinely deny friendship requests from strangers, assuming (usually correctly) that they’re wannbe porn stars, marketers or bands. Why would you want to be “friends” with someone you don’t know? My idea of social networking is meeting people through other people or groups, and I’ve always sent a message along with a request (“Hi Bob, this is Scurrilous J from the Florida State University group. I just sent you a friend request; our conversations through the forums have been so funny!” Something like that.)
To me, MySpace functions much like a “casual-self” resume. It depicts my at home self and often the friendships represent my interests. For example, I am friends with lots of dead people such as Mozart, Emily Dickenson, Henry Miller, Charles Darwin, Marcel Proust, etc, simply because I love their work. I know about 80% of the people and the other 20%, are people I became friends with via MySpace, including the dead peeps.
I use MySpace as a place to showcase my photography and design work. I don’t take it too seriously and several weeks will elapse before I log in. I deny friendship requests from people I have nothing in common with or spammers – duh.
I recently created a Facebook account and will continue to keep my MySpace profile active, at least for now.
I’ve been comparing the two sites, too, and find Facebook far superior. In both, I’ve been able to connect with the guys who were once “my” Cub Scouts, but MySpace also provides me with way more goofy and unwanted mortgage company ads, sex sites, and fairly bizarre friend requests. I like the Facebook groups, some serious and some not, and the way groups can lead to events. My sig-other needed to find two more students to fill out a summer class, so I showed him how to go into Facebook and create a flier and send it to the students in his school — five dollars later and he had THREE new students. Coincidence? I think not.