Questions about MySpace and Facebook

[msagara]

I'm not entirely a luddite. But. Well. MySpace and Facebook? They make me feel bemused and almost entirely incompetent. But I know there are a bunch of people in my flist that probably don't feel either of these, and I thought I would, you know, badger you for helpful advice.

1.* How does it work? I recently created a MySpace account and then ... kind of clicked in circles because I couldn't really figure out how to do anything, or in fact even figure out what I was supposed to do. My oldest son and my friends mock me mercilessly in Facebook, and because I love them, I want to avoid having to kill them, so I haven't yet created an account there.

2. Have you found it helpful?

ETA: * as in rudimentary step-by-step instructions as if you were speaking to your 5 year old dog. Because I in theory understand that you are suppose to build a friends-list there, but cannot figure out how to do this.

Comments

[esperalore.livejournal.com]

I'm as mystified as you. I created a facebook account partially because my uncle seems to think its a good thing to do (in terms of networking, I guess keeping in touch with people you've met) and mainly because he posted a video of my grandmother cooking that I wanted to see. But I got bored pretty quickly. I had the same problem; I have no idea what I'm supposed to do on the site.

I'll probably figure them out about the time they're no longer popular, since I seem to be completely hopeless for my generation.