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

[canwolfshadow.livejournal.com]

I think myspace is the root of all evil. I have been finding facebook moderately useful for keeping track of friends that I haven't heard from in a while, and sort of one-stop shopping for checking up on people. I'm a slight privacy freak so, I'm careful on what I put on the site. Facebook is useful for that in that you can easily set privacy levels.

I cannot comment on myspace.

Facebook, follow the steps tp set up from their main site, and then send emails to a few key people, that you are on facebook, and your contact info for there... Generally consisting of generally your user name. Also post user name here... I suspect that you would be inundated with friends requests in short order. approve or disapprove at will for a personal page. I have no idea how to create a fan-type page.